Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Aino, the tragic maiden of the Kalevala — a young, beautiful girl promised against her will to the aged sage Vainamoinen, who in her despair drowned
Joukahainen, the brash young rival of Vainamoinen in the Kalevala — a proud youth who challenged the eternal sage to a contest of song, was sung down into
Kullervo, the tragic hero of the Kalevala — an ill-fated youth of monstrous strength born into slavery and vengeance, whose life of sorrow, terrible
Antero Vipunen, the dead giant-sage of the Kalevala — an ancient, long-dead being of immense wisdom, buried with trees growing upon him, into whose belly
Iku-Turso, a monstrous and malevolent sea-creature of Finnish myth — a colossal beast of the deep ocean imagined as a giant octopus or many-armed terror,
The Näkki, a dangerous shapeshifting water-spirit of Finnish myth that dwells in lakes, rivers and beneath bridges, luring and dragging the unwary —
Otso, the sacred bear of Finnish myth, “the king of the forest” — the most revered forest creature, born among the stars and so holy its true name was
Hiisi, a malevolent spirit and the dangerous haunted places it inhabits in Finnish myth — a goblin-demon of the forests, mountains and stony wilds, a
Loviatar, the dread hag-goddess of disease and pestilence in Finnish myth — the blind, hideous daughter of the death-gods who, impregnated by the cruel
Akka, “the Old Woman” — the great earth-mother and fertility goddess of Finnish myth, the consort of the sky-god Ukko, goddess of the soil, the harvest,
