Žemyna
Lithuanian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Lithuanian earth-mother goddess who nourishes all life; honoured with libations, buried bread and a black piglet at sowing and harvest.
Domains
- earth
Powers
- Quicken all growth from the fertile earth
Epithets
- Žemyna žiedkėlė 'Žemyna the blossom-raiser', invocation-epithet of the earth-goddessJan Łasicki, De diis Samagitarum (1615) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Recorded rites: bread buried before sowing, black piglet sacrifice, libations to the earth (primary); Lithuanian žemė 'earth'; M. Gimbutas, The Balts (1963) (secondary)