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She is the goddess of the land, which is called Māras zeme ('Māra's land'). She is called 'Mother of Cows' (Govu māte), the same way the Vedic Dawn-goddess is called gávām mātár-'id'. In western Latvia, and to a lesser degree in the rest of Latvia, she was strongly associated with Laima, and may have been considered the same deity.
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 ...
While all three of them had similar functions, Laima is the Goddess of luck and is more related with mothers and childbirth, Dēkla is in charge of children, and Kārta holds power over the adult's life. [2] In modern Dievturi these three goddesses are referred to as the three Laimas, indicating they are the same deity in three different ...
See also Category:Latvian gods. Pages in category "Latvian goddesses" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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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.
Laumės can be considered as atmospheric goddesses. It is said that Laumė was a beautiful goddess, who lived in clouds and had a diamond throne. Some myths claimed Laumė was a bride of thunder god Perkūnas; however, they did not marry because Laumė fell in love with the Moon, who was considered a male god in Lithuania. In other stories, the ...
Sekhmet, goddess of healing and medicine of Upper Egypt; Heka, deification of magic, through which Egyptians believed they could gain protection, healing and support; Serket, goddess of healing stings and bites; Ta-Bitjet, a scorpion goddess whose blood is a panacea for all poisons; Isis, goddess of healing, magic, marriage and protection