Agricola's Ukko in the light of archaeology: a chronological and interpretative study of ancient Finnish religion

• Main Author: Salo, Unto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Donner Institute 2014
• Subjects: Comparative Religion; Religious Studies; Cultural Studies; Folkloristics; Finland; Finno-Ugrians; Kalevala; Archaeology; Christianity; Ukko (Finnish deity); Agricola; Mikael; Bp; ca 1510-1557; Mythology; Finno-Ugrian; karelia*; karelian
• Online Access: https://ojs.abo.fi/ojs/index.php/scripta/article/view/542

No written sources of ancient Finnish religion have been preserved from the pre-Christian period. Study of the subject is thus based on later historical data, folk poetry and other recorded national traditions, supplemented by etymology and onomastics. A valuable basis for study is provided by the v...