Luonnotar
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('Daughter of Nature') was the creator goddess of the Finns. At the beginning there was only Luonnotar 'all alone in a vast emptiness'. Later she floated for centuries on the cosmic ocean, until one day a bird made a nest on her knees and began to hatch some eggs. But the goddess became excited and upset the nest, with the result that from the broken shells of the eggs the heavens and the earth were formed. The yolks became the sun, and the whites the moon. Scattered fragments of these eggs were transformed into the stars. Afterwards Luonnotar fashioned the continents and the seas, and gave birth to Väinämöinen, the Finnish hero.