Radien-attje, Jubmel, Vearalden Olmai or Waralden Olmai

Waralden Olmai

Waralden Olmai, also known as Maylmen Olmai, Radien-attje, Jubmel or Vearalden Olmai, was a major Sami god. Sami people come from Sápmi, or modern day Finland, Sweden, and Norway. These ancient Nordic people were polytheistic and "Waralden Olmai" was their "world-god". Waralden Olmai is also an...

is the superior

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 or celestial

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 deity

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 of the Sami

Sami people

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 is called Jubmel or Ibmel, a parallel to the Finnish Jumala

Jumala

or or means "god" in Finnic languages and Volga-Finnic languages, both the Christian God and any other deity of any religion. The word is thought to have been the name of a sky god of the ancient Finnic-speaking peoples...

 (God

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).

The superior deity is the ruler

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 of the Cosmos

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. In his honour

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, the Sami erected a sacrificial

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 pole every autumn

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, symbolizing

Symbol

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 the world-pillar, which was considered as a connection the World

World

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 to the firmament

Firmament

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. The pillar reached from the centre

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 of the Earth

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 to the fix point on the firmament - the Pole star

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. The superior deity was also the “giver of life

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” and was considered the god of fertility

Fertility

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.

Radien-attje is often portrayed as the main figure in a Trinity

Trinity

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, which besides him, consists by the Raedieahkka

Raedieahkka

Raedieahkka or Radien-akka was a female deity and the wife of the Sami deity Radien-attje in the Sami mythology....

 or Radien-akka (Maadteraahka, the superior mother

Mother

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) and their son

Son

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 Radien-pardne

Radien-pardne

Radien-pardne or Raediengiedte was the son of Radien-attje and Raedieahkka in the Sami mythology....

. There are critic

Critic

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s who claim, that this Trinity is a consequence of the meeting with the Christian

Christian

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 religion

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, and that it is a match to the God the Father

Father

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, Jesus

Jesus

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 the Son and the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

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. If this is the case, it is interesting, that the Sami have replaced the Holy Spirit with a wife

Wife

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. In some versions the heavenly

Heaven

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 family

Family

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 also include the daughter

Daughter

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 Rana Niejta

Rana Niejta

Rana Niejta and Rana Niejte are Ume Sami names on a goddess in sami mythology. In Northern Sami she is called Rana Neida and Rana Neide .Rana Niejta is the goddess for spring and fertility...

. As superior deity, Radien-attje is more of an intellectual

Intellectual

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superior, as his son, Radien-pardne, performs the practical things.