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	Other Mythology Encyclopaedia
		In Japanese mythology, Ama Terasu is the Sun-Goddess.
		In Finnish mythology, Loviatar was the goddess of plagues.
		In Dakota mythology, Takuskanskan is the wind-spirit and trickster.
	webpages.charter.net /sn9/religion/myth/otherencyclopaedia.html (10254 words)

	The Kalevala: Preface
		Finnish is the language of a people who live pre-eminently close to nature, and are at home amongst the animals of the wilderness, beasts and birds, winds, and woods, and waters, falling snows, and flying sands, and rolling rocks, and these are carefully distinguished by corresponding verbs of ever-changing acoustic import.
		The poetry of a people with such an elaborate mythology and with such a keen and appreciative sense of nature and of her various phenomena, was certain, sooner or later, to attract the attention of scholars.
		Porthan, a Finnish scholar of great attainments, born in 1766, continuing the work of Juslenius, accumulated a great number of national songs and poems, and by his profound enthusiasm for the promotion of Finnish literature, succeeded in founding the Society of the Fennophils, which to the present day, forms the literary centre of Finland.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/kveng/kvintro.htm (7806 words)

	The Ancient Religion of the Finns — Virtual Finland
		The unlettered culture of the Finnish people was for the historians of the ancient world a complete terra incognita until Tacitus, in the year 98 AD, mentioned in his Germania a people called the Fenni, living somewhere in the northeastern Baltic region "in unparallelled squalor and poverty".
		To begin with it is a portrayal of Finnish mytholoy through the epic poems collected by Elias Lönnrot; secondly, it represents the mythological dream of the Finnish people, and finally it is, in the compilation of Elias Lönnrot, a statement of the worldview of the Finnish people.
		The dead had a dual function in ancient Finnish society: they were cared for so that they would protect and watch over the prosperity of the family, but they also aroused fear, because it was accepted that they would punish anyone who neglected the rites or who did not conform with the customary norms.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/muinueng.html (3359 words)

	Finnish Mythology
		Finnish mythology, like that of many other cultures, tells the stories of gods and legendary heroes.
		Compiled by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the early 1800s, the Kalevala is based on traditional poems, songs, and incantations that Lönnrot collected over a long period of time.
		Among the most famous individuals to make use of the Kalevala was Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who wrote a number of symphonies and other musical works based on its characters and tales.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Dr-Fi/Finnish-Mythology.html (1406 words)

	Finnish Mythology
		The originator of the Finnish theory is held to have been V.N. Tatishchev, the "Father of Russian history", whose manuscript on the history of Russia mentions as his chief source the "Chronicle of Joachim".
		The most influential proponent of the Finnish theory was Catherine 2nd, who attempted in her writings on the history of Russia to combine the Slavs, the Rus, conceived of as the primeval inhabitants of Northern Russia, and the Varangians, whom she placed in the region between Ingria and Finland.
		The nationalist interpretations placed on Finnish history by Yrjö Koskinen in the late 1860`s emphasized the role of the Finns in the Varangian question as well, and it was again claimed that the most proficient element in the Varangian administration could well be assumed to have been Finnish.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /christy/32/asr.html (2887 words)

	Finnish mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finnish mythology has many unique features that it shares with other Finnic mythologies, like the Estonian mythology, and also elements similar with non-Finnic neighbours, especially the the Balts and the Scandinavians.
		The first historical mention of the beliefs of the Finns is by the bishop Mikael Agricola in his introduction to the Finnish translation of the New Testament in 1551.
		Wider studies into Finnish mythology were made only in the 18th century by the preacher-ethnologist Lars Leevi Laestadius in his treatise of Lappish beliefs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_mythology (1785 words)

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		Finnish Mythology A brief introduction to the topic by Pirjo Joki.
		In a Finnish Sauna begins with a long exceprt from Canto 18 of the Kalevala in which Ilmarinen makes some gifts for his sister Annikki, while she in return prepares a sauna for him.
		This synopsis of Irish Mythology is courtesy of Paddynet.
	www.angelfire.com /biz2/pcsnewark/myths.html (8496 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Other Mythology
		In Islamic mythology, Eblis is the chief of the evil spirits.
		In Iroquois mythology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.
		In Babylonian mythology, Zu is an evil lesser-god who steals the tablets of destiny from Enlil while he was washing, and flies away to his mountain.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D.HTM (7881 words)

	4.7 Finnish literature
		The first known Finnish author was Jöns Budde, a Franciscan monk who lived in the Brigittene monastery at Naantali in the latter part of 15th century, chiefly translating from Latin to Swedish, but he also wrote a few things of his own.
		His De Poësi Fennica (published in Latin in five parts 1776-78), a study on Finnish folk poetry, had great importance in awakening public interest in the Kalevala-poetry and Finnish mythology, and the study was also the basis of all later study of the poetry.
		He was among the founders of the Aurora Society that advocated Finnish literary pursuits and was the editor of the first Finnish newspaper, Tidningar utgifne af et sällskap i Åbo, founded in 1771.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part4_FINLAND/section-6.html (1837 words)

	Finnish Mythology
		It is generally held that the influx of Indo-European languages to Europe occurred relatively late, and the scientists have mainly wondered where the newcomers came from.
		Considering the period, the Finnish peoples were thus on a high level of civilization and organization.
		#Finnish impact on the tribal origin of the old English people, #Rurik the Varangian---The Finnish theory, #Finnish Royal Family at "Viking Age", #The Ancient Kingdom of Finland, #An anti-cultural foundation destroys a vital part of the history of the Finns
	victorian.fortunecity.com /christy/32/ak1e.html (856 words)

	Finnish mythology meets Chinese martial arts
		Based on the ancient Finnish myth the "Kalevala," the film is set thousands of years ago in China as the demon's eighth son threatens humanity.
		Boldly bringing together these tragic Finnish heroes with those of Chinese mythology, the film successfully presents the dilemma between one's destiny and the effort to deny it.
		The director believes there may be a similarity between Finnish and Chinese classics that helps the two cultures meld together in the film.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_newupdate/2006-10/30/content_87677.htm (395 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames
		Mythology Notes present descriptions of gods, summaries of myths, and some historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts.
		Ancient Egypt: the Mythology contains extensive descriptions of the deities, retellings of the myths, and essays on the region.
		Dazhdbog in Russian mythology Summary and excerpts from Dazhdbog's tale with commentary by Sergei Naumov.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	Kalevi Aho Symphonic Dances
		He is, quite simply, the foremost Finnish composer of his generation as well as the most prolific.
		He was intending to write the definitive Finnish ballet based, as one would expect, on stories from Kalevala, the great poem of Finnish mythology that has inspired so much art in Finland.
		Kalevi Aho undertook to write the missing third act of this ballet so that the ballet could be performed in full and this was the origin of the ‘Symphonic Dances’ presented here.
	www.finnishgifts.com /kalevi-aho.html (468 words)

	CWNMythology
		Bulfinch's Mythology - Home Page and Table of Contents
		Of Gods and Men: The A to Z of Mythology and Legend
		Lepidoptera in the Mythology of Native Americans Cultural...
	www.hu.mtu.edu /~cwnelson/Mythology.html (47 words)

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