Karelian-Finnish folklore

Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)

250px|thumb|"Travels one day, then a second, So the third from morn till evening, When appear the gates of Pohya, With her snow-clad hills and mountains." Pohjola (; from 'base, bottom', but used in derived forms like pohjois- to mean 'north' + - 'place'), sometimes just Pohja (), is a location in Finnish mythology. It is one of the two main polarities in the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, along with Kalevala or Väinölä.

thumb|The Theft of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1897 In Finnish mythology, the Sampo () or Sammas () is a magical device or object described in many different ways, constructed by the blacksmith, inventor and originally the sky god Ilmarinen, and which brings riches and good fortune to its holder, akin to the horn of plenty (cornucopia) of Greek mythology. A central myth in Finnish mythology is the idea that the sampo was once in Pohjola but a group of heroes attempt to steal it. Sammas, as something at the center of the world, also exists in Estonian mythology.

Finnish song

thumb|200px|By the river of Tuonela (Tuonelan joella) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1903 thumb|200px|''Lemminkäinen's Mother|Lemminkäisen äiti'' by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The mother of young [[Lemminkäinen has gone to the river of Tuoni to find the corpse of her dead son. One of the myths told in Kalevala.]]

Finnish song

thumb|right|''Lemminkäinen's Mother, an 1897 painting by [[Akseli Gallen-Kallela: She is shown having just gathered the broken body of her son from the dark river of Tuonela.]] Lemminkäinen () or Lemminki () is a prominent figure in Finnish mythology. He also appears in Karelian and Estonian folk poetry. He is one of the heroes of the Kalevala'', where his character is a composite of several separate heroes of oral poetry. He is usually depicted as young and good-looking, with wavy red hair.

ancient song genre

Izhorian oral poet (1833-1904)

thumb|right|Finnish humppa band Eläkeläiset on stage

polytheistic religion of the Baltic Finnic peoples prior to Christianisation

Karelian singer (1769-1841)

song

Finnish cultural organization