Saulė
Lithuanian · deity · mythic · deity
Lithuanian sun goddess who drives a copper-wheeled chariot; wife of the Moon and mother of the planetary Daughters of the Sun.
Children
Domains
Powers
- Ride the sky in a copper-wheeled chariot of tireless horses
- Mother the Daughters of the Sun (Saulės dukterys)
- warm and quicken the earth as queen of the heavenly bodies
Epithets
Relations
Sources
- Lithuanian dainos; the Saulė–Mėnuo celestial-wedding cycle
- Indo-European solar goddess; M. Gimbutas, The Balts (1963)
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