Perkele
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Etymology
The name is of Proto-Indo-European origin; *Perkʷūnos is the reconstructed name of the god of thunder.
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Influence of Christianity
As Finland was Christianized, the ancient pre-Christian deities came to be regarded as demons. This led to the use of "Script error: No such module "Lang"." as a translation for "Devil" in the Finnish translation of the Bible. Later, in other translations, the word was rendered as Script error: No such module "Lang". (the evil one).[9]
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