Pantheon Celtic, Slavic and Baltic
Finnish mythology
Nordic mythology
- Members 15 on record
- Generations 2, as the accounts give them
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
A family photograph
Each row stands a generation below the row above it, as the accounts give their kinship. Membership is what the records say.
What this means
15 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
The rows are counted from the kinship among the members themselves, as the accounts give it: a member whose parent is also a member stands a row below that parent. This is kinship inside the accounts — what the myths and the texts say, not a documented family — and where they disagree, every recorded parent is counted. Where the accounts loop — Gaia is Uranus’s mother and his consort — the loop is cut, not resolved. A documented human family is not drawn here, and neither is a member with no account kinship to another; both are listed below.
Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.
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I Eldest on record
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II A generation below
Members · 15
Everyone it counts
Gods first, then people — including those the photograph leaves out.
- Tapio Spirit of the forest in Finnish mythology
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Ilmatar Goddess in Finnish mythology - Mielikki Finnish goddess of forest
- Hiisi Term in Finnic mythologies
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Ahti Water deity of Finnish Folk poetry - Tellervo (Tuulikki) Forest god Tapio's daughter in Finnish mythology
- Nyyrikki Character in Finnish mythology
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Piru Evil spirit or demon in Finnish mythology - Kave Spiritual entity in Finnish mythology
- Rahko Deity in Finnish mythology
- Otso Spirit in Finnish mythology
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Kalev Estonian mythological king -
Louhi Wicked queen of the land known as Pohjola in Finnish and Karelian mythology -
Lemminkäinen Figure in Finnish mythology - Loviatar Character in Finnish mythology, blind daughter of Tuoni
Connections
How Finnish mythology connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform · a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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