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.

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river bank of Tuonela canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mythological location
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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Lemminkäinen’s Mother depicts river bank of Tuonela