List of minor Finnish deities

List of minor deities in Finnish mythology.

In Modern Finnish, deity-like figures in Finnish mythology are often described with two words: jumala and haltija. Risto Pulkkinen described a jumala as a being who rules over a wider concept, such as water, while a haltija is more localized, ruling over a specific body of water. According to him, there is only a small number of beings in Finnish paganism which could be called jumala, but a wide variety of haltija beings.

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