Žemyna
Lithuanian · deity · mythic · deity
Lithuanian earth-mother goddess who nourishes all life; honoured with libations, buried bread and a black piglet at sowing and harvest.
Domains
Powers
- Quicken all growth from the fertile earth
Epithets
Sources
- Recorded rites: bread buried before sowing, black piglet sacrifice, libations to the earth
- Lithuanian žemė 'earth'; M. Gimbutas, The Balts (1963)
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