river bank of Tuonela
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The river bank of Tuonela is the gloomy, mythic shoreline of the Finnish underworld’s river of the dead, central to the Kalevala tale of Lemminkäinen’s dismemberment and attempted rescue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| river bank of Tuonela canonical | 1 |
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological location
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underworld shore ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Kalevala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Tuonetar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tuoni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Lemminkäinen’s death
ⓘ
reassembly of Lemminkäinen’s body ⓘ |
| associatedFigure | Lemminkäinen’s mother ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lemminkäinen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
river of Tuonela ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole | part of the world of the dead in Finnish cosmology ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Finland ⓘ |
| creator | Elias Lönnrot (compiler of Kalevala) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Finnish mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Kalevala, poem of Lemminkäinen’s death ⓘ |
| function | boundary between living and dead ⓘ |
| genre |
epic poetry setting
ⓘ
myth ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
death-related
ⓘ
gloomy ⓘ mythic ⓘ otherworldly ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Tuoni River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death and resurrection
ⓘ
limits of heroic power ⓘ maternal devotion ⓘ |
| influenced | Finnish national romantic imagery of death ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Finnish folk belief about the land of the dead ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Finnish ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Finnish underworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
literary epic
ⓘ
oral epic tradition ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
setting of Lemminkäinen’s dismemberment
ⓘ
site of attempted rescue of Lemminkäinen ⓘ |
| partOf | Tuonela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realmType | underworld ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Swan of Tuonela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
danger of crossing into Tuonela
ⓘ
irreversibility of death ⓘ transition to the realm of the dead ⓘ |
| timeOfCompilation | 19th century (Kalevala compilation) ⓘ |
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