Māra
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Māra is the highest-ranking
Names
Alternative names: Māre, Mārīte (diminutive), Mārša, Māršava (Western Latvia).
Description
She is the patroness of all feminine duties (children, cattle), patroness of all the economic activities ("God made the table, Māra made the bread"), even money and markets. Being the alternate side of Dievs, she takes a person's body after their death while Dievs is taking the soul. She is the goddess of the land, which is called Māras zeme (Māra's land). She is called 'Mother of Cows' – Govu māte – the same way the Vedic Dawn-goddess is called gávām mātár-.
In western Latvia, and to a lesser degree in the rest of Latvia, she was strongly associated with Laima, and may have been considered the same deity.[citation needed]
Festivals
The festival
See also
- Morana (goddess)
- Mara (Hindu goddess)
- Mara (disambiguation)
- Mare (folklore)
- Marah (Bible)
- Mokosh
- Semele
- Eos
- Aurora (mythology)
- Ēostre
- Freyja
- Bendis
References
- ^ Didier Calin
- ^ Calin, Didier (January 1996). "Indo-European Poetics and the Latvian Folk Songs".
- ^ Janis Paliepa, The Origin of the Baltic and Vedic Languages: Baltic Mythology
- ^ "Latvian folklore: Māra". Archived from the original on January 26, 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-23.
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External links
- Māre at Krisjanis Barons folk closet, Latvian Folklore (in Latvian)
- Latvia seeks common roots in Tamil Goddess Mariamma , Times of India