Tuonela

This article covers the mythological Tuonela. The album of the same name by the Finnish metal band Amorphis is treated under Tuonela (album) .

Akseli Gallen-Kallela : Lemminkäinen's mother on the Tuonela river

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Tuonela (also Tuoni , Manala or Mana ) is the realm of the dead or the underworld in Finnish mythology . In Tuonela, Tuoni and Tuonetar rule with the support of Kalma . The Tuonela River is guarded by Surma .

Tuonela is known from the Finnish national epic Kalevala . In the 16th Song of Kalevala, Väinämöinen travels alive to Tuonela to find spells.

Tuonela is used as a translation for the Greek word Ἅιδης ( Hades ) in the Finnish translation of the Bible. In Christianity, Tuonela is often interpreted as a resting place before the last judgment .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Feld, Helmut (2013): The end of the belief in the soul. From the ancient Orient to the late modern. Berlin: Lit Verlag, p. 278.