Tellervo (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtelːerʋo]) is the Finnish goddess of forests. She was the daughter of Tapio, an East Finnish forest spirit. Kirby, William...
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origins of many natural phenomena. From this material Lönnrot edited the Kalevala as well as the Kanteletar. The wealth of folk poetry collected in the 19th...
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death in 1940, she moved back to Nivala to live with her granddaughter Tellervo. On Kallio's 60th birthday in 1938, a civic gift fund was established in...
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Juminkeko Foundation (category Kalevala)
It runs Juminkeko, an eponymous information centre of the national epic Kalevala and Karelian culture located in Kuhmo, Finland. The centre was designed...
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holding a bow in her hand is thought to show the mythic "Tellervo", a goddess from the Kalevala mythology, who is thought to be the progenitor of the human...
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Tapio (spirit) (category Characters in the Kalevala)
wife is the goddess of the forest, Mielikki. He is the father of Annikki, Tellervo, Nyyrikki (the god of hunting), and Tuulikki. Fitting the Green Man archetype...
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identity (see Karelianism). Thousands of folk poems in what came to be called Kalevala meter were collected in Suomen kansan vanhat runot (The ancient poems of...
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