Ukko
c. 1000 BCE – 1600 CEattested
Finland and Karelia
- Finnic
Finnic sky and thunder god whose name simply means "old man". Thunder was his cart, and prehistoric stone axes turned up in fields were taken for his thunderbolts long after anyone knew what they really were.
Known for
- thunder as a cart on the sky
- stone axes as thunderbolts
- the harvest feast of Ukon vakat
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.