Editing Ukko (section)

==Origins==
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[[Image:Båtformig skafthålsyxa, Nordisk familjebok.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Corded Ware culture]] boat-shaped battle axe from {{lang|sv|[[Närke]]}}, Sweden.]]
It is likely that the figure of {{lang|fi|Ukko|italic=unset}} is mostly [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]], possibly [[Baltic region|Baltic]], in origin. {{lang|fi|Ukko|italic=unset}} is held by [[Comparative religion|researchers of religion]] to be parallel to Indo-European [[patriarchal]] sky deities, for example to [[Zeus]] and [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]] of the [[Classical mythology|Classical]] [[Greco-Roman pantheon]], the Indian [[Hindu]] god [[Indra]], the [[Baltic paganism|Balto]]-[[Slavic paganism|Slavic]] god [[Perun]]-[[Perkūnas]] and the [[Norse mythology|Norse]] god [[Thor]]. {{lang|fi|[[Tuuri]]}}, a [[Germanic mythology|Germanic]] loan and [[cognate]] of Thor, was possibly an alternate name for {{lang|fi|Ukko|italic=unset}}.<ref name="Virrankoski 2009">{{cite book |last=Virrankoski |first=Pentti |year=2009 |title=Suomen historia |volume=1 & 2 |publisher=SKS |location=Helsinki |isbn=978-952-222-160-5}}</ref> {{lang|fi|Tuuri|italic=unset}} is rarely encountered in Finnish mythology, and had been relegated to the mere role of deity of harvest and success.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}

It is possible that when {{lang|fi|Ukko|italic=unset}} took the position of the preceding sky god {{lang|fi|[[Ilmarinen]]}}, {{lang|fi|Ilmarinen|italic=unset}}'s destiny was to become [[Culture hero|a mortal smith-hero]].{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} Stories tell about {{lang|fi|Ilmarinen|italic=unset}} vaulting the sky-dome.<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=John Martin |editor-last=Crawford |year=1888 |title=The Kalevala |title-link=Kalevala |section=Rune&nbsp;X |at=stanza&nbsp;17 |section-url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune10.htm}}</ref> Whether {{lang|fi|Ilmarinen|italic=unset}} was an earlier, assumably [[Uralic mythologies|Uralic]] sky deity is regardless highly questionable. Some researchers hold {{lang|fi|Ilmarinen|italic=unset}} and {{lang|fi|Ukko|italic=unset}} equivalent.

The [[Sami people|Sami]] worshipped a similar deity, called [[Aijeke]], probably as result of cultural cross-contamination or common origin. The god was equated with [[Horagalles]].