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Intro
Hello! My name is Felix. I am a syncretic polytheist, and this blog is specifically for my Finnish polytheism (Suomenusko/ Väenusko) worship & practice. My name comes from the fact that Tapio is my main god I worship! I also worship Ukko and Ahti/Ahto, and I do plan to expand!
Cooper Square in 1905 (Bowery, Manhattan, New York City)
Visible right next to the tall building on the far right is the building that housed Columbia Hall / Paresis Hall(32 Cooper Square), a club/bar brothel opened in the 1890s that acted as a safe haven for LGBT+ people. The establishment also employed many LGBT+ people—both adults & sadly minors—as, uh, sex workers. We were exploited, same as other kids were exploited to work damn near as slaves in coal mines & textile factories... When someone romanticizes the victorian era, just remind them of these horrors 😭 Despite many being exploited or forced to turn to such work, one often found a very disorderly safe haven in this place run by gangsters of the Five Points Gang, where the police apparently didn't dare visit as much... The clients were overwhelmingly older men.
Both gay masc & fem men, trans+ people & other gender diverse frequented The Hall's bar; LGBTQIA+ activist Jennie June states she met around 40 ultra-androgynes in total during her time frequenting the area—that term being a broad one encompassing mainly people we could call transfeminine & more feminine non-binary today.
On the second floor sat Cercle Hermaphroditos, the first ever trans organization. Albeit informal, they discussed anything from current politics, sexology news, contemporary developments, clothing etc etc... And was the only place they could all dress as women without scorn.
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Before sometime in the 1800s, a general mindset over someone transgressing gender roles & clothing was often a laughable fear that they were doing it to "commit sodomy", & to trick or seduce people to lay with them; At this time, western law held next to no understanding of gender diversity at all.
Even intersex conditions were hush hush... If someone was born with mixed genitalia, they were often viewed negatively, and religious leaders had no idea how to handle it... Most were simply forced to dress and act either women or men, according to their perceived reality.
Of course, they had no idea about things like klinefelter or such.
Even In ancient Greece and Rome, reactions to those of ambiguous genitalia was often hostile, and there are accounts of them being killed by ignorant, angry mobs. Though both of them had rigid & enforced gender binaries.
A pre-christian grave in Hattula, Finland indicates gender & sex diversity may have been seen as natural, with more fluid gender roles, as also indicated by Roman writers who noted Finnic women & men as "doing everything together". The person was shown through testing to likely have had Klinefelter.
Through fragmentary evidence like oral stories, It is known that the Sami indigenous peoples had gender diversity, and some modern activists are speaking of this and how their ancestors idea of gender was often quite fluid; Due to lots of interaction, influence, cultural diffusion, and general syncretism between Finns & Sami, I don't think it's far-fetched to surmise that the pagan Finns also had gender diversity that just wasn't recorded due to us not having any form of writing.
The transition in Finland from indigenous faith to Christianity is also VERY poorly recorded in comparison to, say, when the Americas were colonized... And this was also long before the Gutenberg press. We don't even have proper descriptions of most of the Finnic pagan deities.
so I’m seriously contemplating moving countries after I finish my degree, specifically I’m hoping to immigrate to Finland. my father is an immigrant to US from there, and I just feel strongly I want to go live there permanently (I’ve been there a couple times).
when I first ventured into polytheistic faith, I initially gravitated toward Finnish paganism, and found it difficult to connect to that (though I’ve seen some say that may be due to being so far from Finland?) and I’ve been Hellenic polytheist for a while now.
I really love my relationships with the Hellenic gods, and I don’t really want to give that up? at the same time I’m pretty dead set on moving ASAP. I’m tempted to think that when I get to Finland that would be a great opportunity to try again connecting with Finnish polytheist gods/beliefs. And at the same time I love the gods I worship now! so if anyone has advice or information for me, please share?
Ethereal Ways 2: Ilmatar, Goddess of Ether
If you were to ask your average pagan what deities come to mind in connection to any of the four main elements, most would probably have at least a couple ideas, if not a plethora. But does anyone in particular come to mind regarding the element of Ether?
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Daily Prayer - 19 November 2025
Tapio, god of the forest, we sing to you!
Tapio, grey-beard, we sing of your power!
Tapio, King of the Forest, we pray for success in our hunts - in whatever form those may appear!
Tapio, Green Man, eyebrows of moss and beard of lichen,
We pray that you keep nature safe, that you do not let the ravages of climate change overtake it
We pray that you give us the strength for us to fight for our green Earth
Tapio, god of the forest, we sing to you!
Hyvää and greetings!
I'm Ukkos fox, let loose on this site. Maybe I'll decorate this den with art and sophisticated doodles in honour of the deities and spirits. Or I might drag objects from the outside, use them in 🕯 occult rituals 🕯 (cackles manically in foxy puffs), and scribble the results on the walls. We shall see...
About me
I am an adult male of mixed Swedish 🇸🇪 and Finnish 🇫🇮 extraction. Grandma was a war child sent to Sweden during WW2. She never regained fluency in the finnish language but was able to reunite with her family in her later years. I have yet to meet them.
My ancestors probably weep at the fact that I'm gay and hence won't spread my genes further than a sock. But I'm happily married and flourishing.
I'm a practicing neopagan and focusing on the Finnish Pantheon. I am not a reconstructionist mind you.
...Oh, and I don't speak finnish apart from the basics.
I’ve struggled with Catholicism for ages... my faith for ages. I analyzed from a doctor’s perspective and not always necessarily a mother’s perspective. This caused interesting debates in my catechism classes as a wee bab. Idk man, stuff wasn’t adding up. My parents would teach me one thing and then the church was teaching another. It bothered me for a really long time until I started to research on the internet and took several college classes on religious history. And now I conduct other research because of my classes. This here is an article that’s helping explain how Christianity infiltrated the Greeks. It helps me to learn about how Christianity got started and how there was some insidious methods of doing it. I just find it very problematic that I know Apollo loves me and then there’s this one main dude god of Christianity that is like YOU CANT THOUGH. Like??? Anyways. This article helps a tad.
Hint: It had something to do with miracles.
Hello! I was wondering if you knew any resources about Finnish mythology/paganism? I have tried my best to find some but have been unsuccessful so far. Any help you could provide would be appreciated!
Forging the Sampo is a website run by a Finnish-American polytheist.
The Kalevala “is the national saga of Finland,” which was “pieced together (and embellished) by Elias Lönnrotin the late 19th Century, from a traditional cycle told by rural storytellers.”
- Heathen Chinese
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