Gabija
Lithuanian · deity · mythic · deity
Lithuanian goddess and personification of the sacred hearth-fire, protector of the home; tended with daily offerings of bread, salt and water.
Domains
Powers
- Guard the banked hearth-fire of the household
Sources
- Jan Łasicki, De diis Samagitarum (1615), naming Gabie; recorded housewife's fire-prayer
- N. Vėlius, The World Outlook of the Ancient Balts (1989)
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