Tuometar
Tuometar is referred to as the mother of bears. Different names could be used to speak of the bear's parents, such as "Hongatar is your father, / Tuometar is your mother". One song states Mielikki brought up the bear under a spruce and then asks Tuometar and Mielikki to dull the bear's claws and cover its teeth with honey so it wouldn't hurt cattle.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tellervo, Nyyrikki, Katajatar, Petäjätär, Pihlajatar, Tapiotar, Ryöhkötär, Immitär, Ismärätär, Tuulikki, Tapio, Hongatar, Kavet
- allied with
- Mielikki
- syncretized with
- Saint Catherine
- child of
- Tapio
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Hongatar is your father, / Tuometar is your mother", or "On your father's side Hongatar, / on your mother's side Ryöhkötär" or "from your father's side, Immitär, / from your mother's side, Hongatar". One song states Mielikki brought up the bear under a spruce and then asks Tuometar and Mielikki to dull the bear's claws and cover its teeth with honey so it wouldn't hurt cattle.”
#27199 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Tapio's daughter or maiden is also called Tuometar (lit. 'Lady bird cherry') in runic songs. She is sometimes called a mother (or one of them) of the bear. She has been considered a tree haltija, protector of the bird cherry.”
#27320 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“"Tapio" also appears as a name of Mielikki, and the feminized form "Tapiotar" appears as a name of Mielikki as well as Tuometar and Hongatar, both sometimes called Tapio's daughter.”
#27434 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat