Hiisi
demonic mountain Finnish single tradition · 3
Hiisi is a Finnish mythological entity who is the maternal grandfather of Ajatar. In Aleksis Kivi's 1860 play Kullervo, Ajatar states that her mother's father is Hiisi.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1860 CE
- Attested period
- 1860 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in Aleksis Kivi's 1860 play Kullervo as Ajatar's maternal grandfather.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ilmatar, Skogsrå, bergsrå, haltija, rår, Syöjätär, Ilmarinen, Hiitola, Ra, Lempo, Kami, Landvættir, Vættir, Tempo
- parent of
- Hippa
- enemy of
- devils
- sibling of
- Soini
- consort of
- Hilahatar
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Ajatar states that she lives in the mountains, has Lempo and Gnomes in her service, and that her mother's father is Hiisi.”
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“Hiisi”
#7346 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Often, the English "goblin" is translated as "hiisi" in Finnish, due to the numerous similarities between the typical goblin and hiisi. In the Finnish translations of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, where the word "goblin" is a synonym for "Orc", hiisi is used as the translation for "goblin"”
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