Mielikki

This article explains the mythological figure Mielikki, the asteroid of the same name is described under (2715) Mielikki .

Mielikki is the goddess of the forest and the hunt in Finnish mythology . She is the wife of Tapio , god of the forest, and the mother of Nyyrikki and Tuulikki . Mielikki is believed to have contributed in large part to creating the bear . She also has healing abilities. There are clear analogies to the Diana myth.

In the Finnish national epic Kalevala , Lemminkäinen prayed to Mielikki and her husband and offered them gold and silver . This enabled him to later the elk from Hiisi catch. In a later part of the Kalevala, Mielikki was supposed to protect cattle grazing in the forest.

literature

• Kalevala . The Finnish epic by Elias Lönnroth. With a comment by Hans Fromm (Germanist) , Reclam 1985.