The Mother of Lemminkäinen is a scene from the epic poem Kalevala where the hero Lemminkäinen has died and his mother has dredged the pieces of her son's lifeless body from the river of Tuonela and sewn them together again. She is shown with the body in pietà style, waiting for the bee, a messenger of the god Ukko (god of the sky, weather, harvest, and thunder), to bring her honey from the gods to bring her son to life again

The Mother of Lemminkäinen can be read as The Pietà theme in Finnish folklore.

Iconclass 82A(LEMMINKÄINEN)

81H(KALEVALA)