#ilmatar

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Joseph Alanen (Finnish, 1885-1920) - Ilmatar (1913-1916)

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Ilmatar

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

1860

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Joseph Alanen (1885-1920), 'Ilmatar', 1913-1916 "In the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, Ilmatar was a virgin spirit and goddess of the air. The name Ilmatar is derived from the Finnish word ilma, meaning "air," and the female suffix -tar, corresponding to English "-ress". Thus, her name means Airress. In the Kalevala she was also occasionally called Luonnotar, which means "female spirit of nature" (Finnish luonto, "nature").

She was impregnated by the sea and wind and thus became the mother of Väinämöine (..."a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot.")

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Ilmatar : are you drinking... Vodka?

Louhi: yeah

Ilmatar : straight?

Louhi: no, asexual.

Ilmatar: THE VODKA, NOT YOU!

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Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Ilmatar, 1860.

Description

The figure of Ilmatar in the Kalevala appears in the story of creation. Ilmatar was a virgin spirit of the air who descended into the primal sea and was impregnated by the wind. A duck flying over the waters laid its eggs on Ilmatar’s knee. From the eggs came the earth, the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars. Ilmatar also created the shores and fishing waters and later the great sage of the Kalevala, Väinämöinen. Robert Wilhelm Ekman was the first teacher at the Turku School of Drawing and was also a royal court and history painter in Stockholm. He painted many pictures on themes from the Kalevala in which an exalted classicistic style and romantic influences united the world of the Kalevala with the culture of antiquity. (Text source)

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Kalevala Ilmatar

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Ilmatar

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

1860

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'Ilmatar', by Joseph Alanen, 1913-1916

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Ilmatar

Joseph Alanen

1913–1916

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