Loviatar
Family: Tuonela · Role: daughter of Tuoni · First appears: Runo XLV · The Pestilence in Kalevala · Part 1
In Runo XLV, a mighty tempest blew Loviatar pregnant on a barren, treeless waste. At Pohja, Louhi secretly led her to the bathroom and prepared it for her; there, in a single summer night, Loviatar gave birth to nine sons.
She assigned names to her children, including Pleurisy, Colic, Gout, Scrofula, Boil, Itch, Cancer and Plague. The poem calls her “an aged woman” and “the worst of Tuoni's daughters,” identifying Tuoni as her parent.
Relationship record
Life events
- A mighty tempest blew Loviatar pregnant.(Runo XLV · The Pestilence in Kalevala · Part 1)
- “Then a great wind rose in fury, From the east a mighty tempest, Blew this wretched creature pregnant, And she quickened from the tempest, On a barren waste all treeless, On the bare and grassless meadows.”
- Louhi secretly brought Loviatar to the bathroom and prepared it for her.(Runo XLV · The Pestilence in Kalevala · Part 1 · 📍 Pohja)
- With: Louhi
- “Louhi, Pohjola's old Mistress, Old and gap-toothed dame of Pohja, Secret led her to the bathroom, Secretly into the bathroom, But the village did not know it, Nought was spoken in the village.”
- Loviatar gave birth to nine sons.(Runo XLV · The Pestilence in Kalevala · Part 1)
- “Thus became she nine sons' mother, In a single night of summer, With the bath prepared once only, With the bath but once made ready, With a single effort only, From the fulness of her body.”
- Loviatar assigned names to several of her sons, including Pleurisy, Colic, Gout, Scrofula, Boil, and Itch.(Runo XLV · The Pestilence in Kalevala · Part 1)