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Kalma

Added Tue, 26/03/2024
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Finland
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Place → Cemetery
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The Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name can be translated as "the stench of corpses." She usually wanders through graves and cemeteries. She gave her name to the Finnish word kalmisto, which means cemetery. Some sources claim that it moves in a cloud of fragrance, similar to a puff of smoke.

Kalma accompanies and protects Surma, a dog-like creature whose name literally means "death" (the term "surma" is usually used to refer to a murdered person, not death from natural causes).

In Kalevala, Kalma means the personification of death, the grave elf, but also the grave. In eastern dialects, kalma broadly means "grave, mound", but it is known that this word also has magical meanings, for example Manala; Manala Elves; a serious illness caused by the deceased.

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