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{{short description|Goddess in Finnish mythology}}
{{redirect|Luonnotar|the tone poem by Jean Sibelius|Luonnotar (Sibelius)}}
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[[File:Robert Wilhelm Ekman - Ilmatar - A II 1256 - Finnish National Gallery.jpg|thumb|250px|''Ilmatar'' by [[Robert Wilhelm Ekman]], 1860]]
In the ''[[Kalevala]]'', the Finnish national epic, '''Ilmatar''' ({{IPA-fi|ˈilmɑtɑr|pron}}) was a virgin spirit and goddess of the [[wikt:ilma|air]].<ref>Lönnrot, Elias, compiler. ''The Kalevala: Epic of the Finnish People''. Translated by Eino Friberg. Otava Publishing Company, Ltd., 4th ed., p. 365. (1998) {{ISBN|951-1-10137-4}}</ref>

==Origins==
The name Ilmatar is derived from the Finnish word ''ilma'', meaning "air," and the female suffix ''-tar'', corresponding to English "-ress". Thus, her name means ''Airress''. In the Kalevala she was also occasionally called '''Luonnotar''' ({{IPA-fi|ˈluo̯nːo̞t̪ɑr}}), which means "female spirit of nature" (Finnish ''luonto'', "nature").<ref>Lönnrot, Elias, compiler. ''The Kalevala, or Poems of the Kaleva District: A Prose Translation with Foreword and Appendices''. Translated with foreword and appendices by Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963.</ref>

She was impregnated by the sea and wind and thus became the mother of [[Väinämöinen]].

[[File:Joseph Alanen - Ilmatar.jpg|thumb|180px|''Ilmatar'' by {{ill|Joseph Alanen|fi}}, 1913–1916]]

==Sibelius’s ''Luonnotar''==
{{Main article|Luonnotar (Sibelius)}}
[[Jean Sibelius]] composed the [[tone poem]] ''[[Luonnotar (Sibelius)|Luonnotar]]'', for soprano and orchestra in 1913. In this work, the mythical origin of the land and sky, recounted in craggy verses from the ''[[Kalevala]]'', becomes an intense Sibelian metaphor for the inexorable force&mdash;even the terror of all creation&mdash;including that of the artist. One of the composer's most compelling works, it alternates between two musical ideas. As heard at the outset, these are the shimmering stirrings of ever-growing possibility; and, underpinned with dissonant, static, harp strokes, the even more incantatory, distressed cries of the "nature spirit" (''Luonnotar'') herself, heavy with child.

==Homage==
* ''[[Ilmatar (album)|Ilmatar]]'' is an album by the Finnish band [[Värttinä]], released in 2000. Its theme was inspired by the goddess's origin-story in the ''Kalevala'' and similar Finnish folk-lore and magic.
* The [[Main Belt]] [[asteroid]] [[385 Ilmatar]] is named after the goddess.
* In the book ''[[The Quantum Thief]]'', members of a humanoid race living in the [[Oort cloud]] sometimes pray to Kuutar and Ilmatar.
*[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1704341981/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_HLA0DbRTT81AF Tales Eldelórne trilogy by Karleigh Bon, book one], introduces Ilmatar as the "womb of their gods, where immortal elves are reborn". 2014-2019
* One of the protagonists of the [[anime]] ''[[Strike Witches]]'', Finnish aviator Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen, shares part of her name with that of the goddess.
* Two [[passenger liner]]s of the now-defunct [[Finland Steamship Company]] were named after the goddess: the {{SS|Ilmatar}} of 1929 and the {{MS|Ilmatar}} of 1964.

==References==
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