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Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, ... Spirits and deities were also worshiped in designated places ...
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. [2]
In Latvian folk culture, lietuvēns is usually described as a labored wretched child. It is small in height, moves fast, and comes at noon or night. Sometimes, but rarely, it turns into ugly vicious women reminiscent of a witch. It always leaves through the same place: where it entered.
Compare this with Ziedu māte in Latvian mythology, Kupala in Polish mythology and Ivan Kupala in Russian mythology; Laukų dvasios (spirits of fields), spirits, who were running through the fields. When crops in the fields waved in the wind, people saw them as being the actions of spirits.
Dievturība is mainly rooted in Latvian folklore, folk songs and Latvian mythology. Dievturība was systematized in 1925 by Ernests Brastiņš and Kārlis Bregžis. [1] It was forcibly suppressed by Soviets in 1940, but lived on in émigré communities and was re-registered in Latvia in 1990. In 2016, a social media survey found that 20% of ...
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.
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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.