Gabija

Lithuanian goddess and personification of the sacred hearth-fire, protector of the home; tended with daily offerings of bread, salt and water.

Domains

• hearth fire

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)