Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mezavirs/ Mezadeva" | Latvia | He is the god of all Forests |
Deity name "Moschel" | Latvia | The deity in charge of cows, feminine duties and patroness of economic activities. Latvia |
Goddess name "Nelaima" | Latvia | Goddess of destiny whose name means misfortune. Latvia |
God name "Perkons" | Latvia | God of thunder who brings beneficial Rain and is Fertility god. Latvia |
God name "Perkons" | Pre - Christian Latvian | God of thunder. Depicted armed with iron weapons, he is also a fertility god who brings beneficial Rain. Also Perkunas (Lithuanian).... |
God name "Piluitus" | Latvia | Fertility god. He was originally a sky or Rain-god responsible for bountiful crops. Latvia |
Goddess name "Saule" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Sun goddess. Also having agricultural links, she is perceived as living on a heavenly farm atop a mythical mountain and invoked to induce fertility and ripening among crops. Her consorts are the sky god DIEVS and the moon god MENESS.... |
God name "Svantevit" | Pre - Christian Latvian | God of war. Mentioned by the author Saxo Grammaticus as riding upon a white horse and holding a cornucopia, he is known locally from the island of Rugen. Also a guardian deity of crops.... |
"Udens Mate" | Latvia | Mother of water, presided over small bodies of water such as wells and ponds. Latvia |
"Upes Mate" | Latvia | Mother of rivers, presided over rivers. Latvia |
God name "Usins" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Astral god. Associated with both the morning and evening star and also has links with bee-keepers and spring. Under Christian influence he becomes absorbed into the figure of St. George.... |
Goddess name "Veja Mate" | Latvia | Goddess of the wind was also responsible for birds and the woodlands. Latvia |
Goddess name "Veja Mate" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of winds. Also responsible for birds and woodlands.... |
Goddess name "Velu Mate" | Latvia | Chthonic underworld goddess and the queen of the dead Latvia |
Goddess name "Velu Mate" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The queen of the dead. She is depicted wearing white and she greets the dead at the cemetery.... |
"Zeme Mate" | Latvia | Creator of earth Latvia |