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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.
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]
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]
In Latvian mythology Lauma is an assistant at birth, assuring the health and welfare of both mother and child. If the mother does not survive or gives the child up, she takes on the role of spiritual foster mother for the child. She spins the cloth of life for the child but weeps at the fate of some.
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.
[c] [d] [19] In a legend from Smolensk, it is told that a human has three mothers: a birth mother (rodna) and two great (velikih) mothers, Mother Moist Earth and the Mother of God. [20] Additionally, the Anglo-Saxon goddess Erce (possibly meaning 'bright, pure') is called the 'mother of Earth' ( eorþan modor ) and likely identified with Mother ...
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