Nakinneito

Symbols

Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.

• Breast bears image-domain The breast denotes the source and its provision, the infant's first world, holding feminine nourishment and, in the solar aureola, a masculine creative power.
  why

  Her most particular recorded trait is an endowment the tellers evidently enjoyed — breasts so voluptuous she can throw them over her shoulder — and she is most often seen out on the water, combing her long curly hair.

• Hair bears image-domain Hair denotes vitality and the state of the head it grows from, ordered or wild, shorn in renunciation, and red for ardour and suspicion alike.
  why

  Her most particular recorded trait is an endowment the tellers evidently enjoyed — breasts so voluptuous she can throw them over her shoulder — and she is most often seen out on the water, combing her long curly hair.

• Mermaid is image-domain The mermaid denotes alluring danger risen from the depths, woman above and fish below, whose song and sensual promise draw a mortal toward the water.
  why

  The Nakinneito is Finland's water maiden — the female of the dangerous Nakki, a gleaming mermaid seen combing her long curls on the water.