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Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives.
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]
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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.
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.
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).
Latvian Lauma or Lithuanian Laumė, or Yotvingian Łauma is a fairy-like woodland spirit, and guardian spirit of orphans in Eastern Baltic mythology [1] or Yotvingian mythology. Originally a sky spirit, her compassion for human suffering brought her to earth to share our fate.
Lithuanian Dievas, Latvian Dievs and Debestēvs ("Sky-Father"), [1] Latgalian Dīvs, Old Prussian Diews, Yotvingian Deivas [2] [3] was the primordial supreme god in the Baltic mythology, one of the most important deities together with Perkūnas, and the brother of Potrimpo.