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Ukko: The God of Thunder of the Ancient Finns And His Indo-european Family (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, 51)

Author Unto Salo
Publisher Inst for the Study of Man
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Author(s)Unto Salo
ISBN / ASIN0941694941
ISBN-139780941694940
Sales Rank7,593,289
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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The mythology of the ancient Finns and its sources; Iron Age society and its gods; Ukko and other euphemisms for the God of Thunder; Rauni; Ukko behind his euphemism; Ilmari, the God of the Winds; Ilmarinen, forger god and heroic smith; Ukko and shooting the fire; By Hieros gamos; The testimony of the elliptical fire stones; Ukko's cloak; Thunderbolts; Ukko's wedge, nail, fingernail, arrow, and chisel; Foreign thunderbolts; Ukko's sword; Ukko's hammer, ax, and club; The Thunder God and Mother Goddess; The Battle Axe Culture and the God of Thunder; Tapering-headed battle axes and the God of Thunder; Ukko in the skies of the lake region?; The evidence of the Late Neolithic shaft-hole axes; The Bronze Age shaft-hole axes; Historical-linguistic viewpoints; The Bird God; Ukko's long history: Conclusions, arguments, assumptions; Abbreviations; plus Eighty Illustrations