List of minor Finnish deities

List of minor deities in Finnish mythology, either mentioned by Mikael Agricola in his preamble to the Finnish translation of the Book of Psalms in 1551, or addressed in Finnic incantations and other runic songs collected in Suomen kansan vanhat runot.

In Modern Finnish, deity-like figures in Finnish mythology are often described with two words: jumala and haltija. Risto Pulkkinen described a jumala as a being who rules over a wider concept, such as water, while a haltija is more localized, ruling over a specific body of water. According to him, there is only a small number of beings in Finnish paganism which could be called jumala, but a wide variety of haltija beings.

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