Aušrinė

Aušrinė ( "dawn " ) is in the Lithuanian mythology, the goddess of the dawn and the morning star.

Myth

According to Lithuanian folk songs, the Moon God Mėnuo fell in love with the young Aušrinė, why Mėnuo and his wife Saulė loggerheads and their marriage was dissolved.

The goddess is first mentioned by the Polish historian Jan Łasicki:

" Ausca dea est radiorum solis vel vel supra occumbentis horizontem ascendentis. "

" Ausca is the goddess of the sun's rays, the down fall as well as rise well above the horizon. "

The name Ausca are doing the inaccurate name Aušra again.

Comparisons

In the Latvian mythology Auseklis is the god of the morning star.

The goddess is compared with the proposed Indo-European goddess * H2eusōs ( "dawn " ), and then to the Vedic Uṣāḥ; Greek Eos and the Roman Aurora are provided.