The Probert Encyclopaedia of Other Mythology

VAINAMOINEN

In Finnish mythology, Vainamoinen was the son of the fertilizing sea and the creation-goddess Luonnotar. He spent 700 years reaching maturity in Luonnotar's womb, and a further 30 years as a grown man sitting there, becoming ever more bored and shouting vainly to the sun and stars to help him. But the sun and stars could not hear him and Luonnotar, innocent of sex and childbirth, had no idea she was even pregnant. Finally in desperation,
Vainamoinen began hauling himself hand over hand out of her womb and clambered out of her before swimming ashore to the country that was to become Finland. he began clearing land for farming using magic as he had no tools. He fought, and defeated the giant Joukahainen using his magic.
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VAMPIRE

In Slav mythology, a Vampire is an undead corpse which lives by drinking the blood of the living.
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VENUSBERG

In German mythology, Venusberg was the mountain grotto in which the knight Tannhauser found Venus and her court and spent his days with her in a long debauch, until satiated and filled with remorse he sought Pope Urban at Rome, and begged absolution for his sin.
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VETE-EMA

In Finnish mythology, Vete-Ema is the goddess of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and streams, the spirit of water and Queen of aquatic life.
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VIRACOCHA

In Inca mythology, Viracocha (also known as Illa and Tici) was the god of the sun, storms and creation. He rose from Lake Titicaca at the dawn of the universe, and made the earth, sky, moon and stars. He peopled the earth with creatures, and then set about making mankind by breathing life into stones. The first people were brainless giants, and he swept them away in a flood and made a second race, this time from pebbles which he scattered all over the earth. Ever afterwards he roamed the earth disguised as a beggar to teach mankind goodness and learning, but because so many people refused to listen to him, preferring crime and war, he returned to heaven in tears. The story goes that should mankind become sufficiently wicked, those tears will turn into another flood and sweep mankind away again. Alternative versions of the myth have Viracocha as a son of Inti, and in another as another aspect of the sun to Imti.
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