Tuonela is the realm of the dead or the Underworld in Finnish mythology. Tuonela, Tuoni, Manala, Vainajala and Mana are used synonymously. Similar realms appear in most Finnic cultural traditions, inc
By the river of Tuonela (Tuonelan joella) by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1903
Lemminkäisen äiti by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The mother of young Lemminkäinen has gone to the river of Tuoni to find the corpse of her dead son. One of the myths told in Kalevala.
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of the living. Chthonic is the technical
Tuonela
…Tuonela (Finnish: ; lit. 'Tuoni's abode') is the realm of the dead or the Underworld in Finnish mythology. Tuonela, Tuoni (pronounced ), Manala (pronounced , 'Underworld'), Vainajala (pronounced ) and Mana (pronounced ) are used…
Juno in the Underworld by Jan Brueghel the Younger, between 1626 and 1630