Thor vs Ukko

Son of Odin and the earth goddess Jord. God of thunder, lightning, and storms. Protector of mankind and the gods, wielding the mighty hammer Mjolnir.

Thor was born to Odin, the Allfather, and Jord, the personification of the earth itself. This union of sky and earth made Thor one of the mightiest beings in existence. From birth, he displayed incredible strength - as an infant, he could lift ten loads of bearskins. He grew quickly into the powerful protector of both gods and mortals. He married Sif, the golden-haired goddess, and with her had a daughter named Thrud. With the giantess Jarnsaxa, he fathered Magni and Modi, who will inherit Mjolnir after Ragnarok.

Thor is the defender of Asgard and Midgard, wielding the mighty hammer **Mjolnir**. Unlike the cunning Odin, Thor is straightforward, strong, and short-tempered, but fiercely loyal.

The sky and thunder god of Finnish and Karelian tradition, 'highest god' of the runo-songs, whose feast at the spring sowing Agricola condemned in 1551 and whom the Kalevala's heroes and Ilmatar call on in need.

No birth or origin is told; Ukko is the old man of the sky, above all.

Mikael Agricola's list of 1551 includes Ukko, and describes a spring rite: when the sowing was done, Ukko's bowl (*Ukon malja*) was drunk, and Agricola complains of the drunkenness and shameful conduct that went with it. Folk poetry calls him *ylijumala*, the highest god, and addresses him in charms and prayers for rain and against storms; a thunderstorm is still *ukonilma*, 'Ukko's weather', in Finnish. Neolithic stone axes turned up by the plough were called *ukonvaaja* or *ukonkirves*, 'Ukko's wedge' or 'axe', and were believed to be thunderbolts he had hurled.