Ilmatar
Sign in to savethumb|Ilmatar by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1860 Ilmatar () is a virgin spirit and goddess of the air in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- goddess
- Part of
- Finnish mythology
- Gender
- female
- Child
- Väinämöinen
- Image
- Ilmatar.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- present in work
- Kalevala
- name in native language
- Ilmatar
- worshipped by
- Finnish mythology
- Commons category
- Ilmatar (Kalevala)
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Sibelius’s ''Luonnotar''
- Homage
- References
thumb|Ilmatar by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1860 Ilmatar () is a virgin spirit and goddess of the air in the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
==Origins== The name Ilmatar is derived from the Finnish word ilma, meaning "air," and the female suffix -tar, corresponding to the English "-ess". Thus, her name means Airess. In the Kalevala she was also occasionally called Luonnotar (), which means "Naturess," "female spirit of nature" (Finnish luonto, "nature").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ilmatar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.