Tapio (mythology)

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Tapio is the god of the forest and the hunt from Finnish mythology . Finnish hunters pray to him before they go hunting. His wife is Mielikki , the goddess of the forest and the hunt. His daughters are called Tellervo, Tyytikki and Tuulikki. A daughter named Annikki is also mentioned in some songs .

In the Finnish national epic Kalevala , Lemminkäinen prayed to Tapio and his wife and offered them gold and silver . This enabled him to later the elk from Hiisi catch.

The garden city of Tapiola in the Finnish city of Espoo was named after Tapio .

Tapiola is also the title of a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius that premiered in New York in 1926 . Sibelius explained the title to his publisher as follows: The gloomy forests of the north stretch out, / Ancient, mysterious in wild dreams, / The forest's mighty god dwells in them, / Forest spirits secretly weave in the darkness.

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