periods: PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL

56 historical periods covering all traditions, from the Predynastic Egyptian period (c. 3200 BCE) to the 20th-century occultist reception layer. Used to anchor entity classifications and relationships in time.

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period_id tradition period_name start_year end_year notes
PER_FINN_TRADITIONAL Finnish Finnish Traditional / Pre-Christian -500 1300 Period of Finnish and Karelian pre-Christian religious practice, from the emergence of the Baltic Finnic culture group (c. 500 BCE) through the completion of formal Christianization (12th–14th centuries CE; Bishop Henry's crusade in Finland c. 1155 CE; full Christianization of Karelia by c. 1300 CE). The religious traditions documented in the Kalevala oral poetry represent this period, though the surviving written attestation comes later: Mikael Agricola's 1551 deity list is the earliest written primary source, and Elias Lönnrot's 1835/1849 Kalevala compilations are the main documentary corpus. The oral runo-song tradition preserved in the Kalevala is estimated to reflect religious practices from the Iron Age through early medieval Finnish/Karelian culture. Pentikäinen (1999) is the standard scholarly reference for this period's religious content.

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