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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 ...
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.
See also Category:Latvian gods. Pages in category "Latvian goddesses" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Latvian goddesses (5 P) Latvian gods (5 P) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 14:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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').
See also Category:Latvian goddesses. Pages in category "Latvian gods" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Pages in category "Latvian mythology" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Baltic goddesses (3 C, 3 P) Baltic gods (3 C, 14 P) L. Latvian deities (2 C) Lithuanian deities (2 C, 5 P)