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Besides the assumption that deities of other Baltic peoples must be Latvian as well but were simply lost over time, many new deities were modeled after Greek and Roman deities. [1] An example of the trend is the epic poem Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs, which features a pantheon of Latvian and Prussian gods and some the author has invented ...
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In Latvian mythology, the term Māte stands for "mother", sometimes written in English as Mahte.It was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses.They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of specific phenomena.
According to folklore, they are the children of Dievas (Lithuanian and Latvian - see Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus). Associated with the brothers and their father are two goddesses; the personified Sun , Saule (Latvian 'sun') and Saules meita (Latvian 'Sun's daughter').
Baltic goddesses (3 C, 3 P) Baltic gods (3 C, 13 P) L. Latvian deities (2 C) Lithuanian deities (2 C, 5 P)