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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.
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 .
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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A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion.
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. ... Latvian. Bangu māte; Cela māte; Darzamāte; Dēkla (Dēkla māte)
The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of ...
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.