Tuonela: The Land Of The Dead In Beliefs Of Ancient Finnish People
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the Finnish version of Hades, Tuonela was the land of death.
It was an underground home or city for all the dead, not just the good or the bad.
In the lifeless, dark Tuonela, which appears several times in the Kalevala and Finnish folk poems, everyone slept forever. However, a brave shaman managed to travel to this land of darkness. Using his power of trance, he often did so to ask the forefathers for guidance he needed among the living on earth.
Sometimes, a shaman could quickly contact Tuonela for a serious reason, but he managed to trick the guards into entering the Land of the Dead.
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