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Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, ... It has also been proposed it might be a symbol for the year. [8]
Auseklis is a Latvian pagan [1] god, a stellar deity [2] that represents a celestial body, but possibly not the same as Venus (Rīta zvaigzne) [3] - the first "star" (how Latvians call it) to appear in the mornings on the east side of the sky.
The swastika is an ancient Baltic thunder cross symbol (pērkona krusts; also fire cross, ugunskrusts), used to decorate objects, traditional clothing and in archaeological excavations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Latvia adopted the swastika, for its Air Force in 1918/1919 and continued its use until the Soviet occupation in 1940.
The Lithuanian and Latvian words for "the world" (pasaulis and pasaule) are translated as "[a place] under the Sun". Saulė is mentioned in one of the earliest written sources on Lithuanian mythology. According to the Slavic translation of the Chronicle by John Malalas (1261), a smith named Teliavelis made the Sun and threw it into the sky. [2]
Ūsiņš ([uːs̪iɲʃ]) is a deity in Latvian mythology, the god of light and spring, symbol of fertility, guardian of horses and bees. [1]It is one of few Latvian deities whose historical sources can be derived to be more or less genuine testimony. [2]
Māra is the highest-ranking goddess in Latvian mythology, the ancient Dawn-goddess, previously called Austra, [1] and, [2] not at all, although often stated, [clarification needed] the same as Zemes māte (Mother Earth, pace). [3]
In other songs Perkūnas, on the way to the wedding of Aušra (dawn; the daughter of the Sun), strikes a golden oak. The oak is a tree of the thunder god in the Baltic mythology. [10] References to the "oak of Perkūnas" (in Lithuanian, Perkūno ąžuolas; in Latvian, Pērkona ozols) exist in a source dated to the first half of the 19th century.
The elk is a common image in many Baltic Finnic petroglyphs. [note 1]Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Estonians, Võros, Setos, Karelians, Veps, Izhorians, Votes and Livonians, prior to Christianisation.