Tiera Nieranpoika

Tiera Nieranpoika (Tiera, son of Niera) is the creator of horses. He laid down, his back towards the wind, his face towards the Sun, as he made this creation happen. There are countless different variations of his name: Niera Tieran poika, Tiera Mieran poika, Kiera Mieran poika, etc.

In Kalevala, Tiera is a human hero and the friend of Lemminkäinen, who accompanies him on an adventure. In this context, he gets the name Ikitiera, in which iki would mean "eternal". However, in Finnish folk poems, this doesn't really appear. There is an Ukotiera, and in some places, the word used is hiki instead, meaning sweat ("Hiki tiera", "Hiki on tiera"). Sweat has an important role in these spells related to horses: Sweat was the väki of horses. In the end, this addition to the front of his name is as inconsistent in poems as his name is. "Tiera" is a Finnish word, which means snow that sticks to or flies off the hoof of a horse in the winter.

Hiukasta on hevosen synty, Varsan synty vaahteresta. Hiki on tiera, mieran poika, Ukotiera, äijön poika, Perin tuuleen makasi, Päin päiväpaisteeseen, Siinä teki lumisukan, Lumisukan, luukavion.

The origin of horse is from sand, The origin of foal from a maple. Sweat is tiera, son of miera, Ukotiera, son of äijö, Lied with his back towards wind, Facing sunlight, There created a sock of snow, A sock of snow, a hoof of bone.