The principal god was the god of thunder and the sky, Ukko; other important gods included Jumi, Ahti, and Tapio.
Tapio Wilska | Tapio Rautavaara | Tapio (spirit) | Tapio Korjus | Tapio Kantanen | Tapio |
His works have been performed by soloists the likes of Ernest Rombout, Ananda Sukarlan, Miquel Bernat, Ángel Luis Castaño, Manuel Guillén, Evelyn Glennie and Sarah Leonard, and conducted by the likes of Ed Spanjaard, Sakari Oramo, Diego Masson, Luca Pfaff, José Ramón Encinar, Josep Pons, Pedro Halffter, Fabián Panisello, Tapio Tuomela, Pablo González Bernardo, Pablo Heras, Dmitri Loos, etc.
Tapio's novel begins in Paris in the 1920s, where two American expatriate writers, Gertrud Stein and Ernst Hemingway (the misspelling of the names is intentional) come across a strange manuscript, which appears to be a diary written by the monster created by Victor Frankenstein.
He is the son of former Finnish footballer and current Eurosport commentator, Tapio Furuholm.