Aurora

deity sky Roman single tradition · 16

Aurora is the Roman dawn deity.

↻ synthesized from 16 sources

When

First attested
2000 BCE
Attested period
-2000 – 2020
Historical notes
Witzel proposes Aurora's myth may go back to the Indo-Iranian period, around 2000 BCE.

Relationships

syncretized with
Ēostre, Uzume, Thesan, Aušrinė, Uṣas, Eos
aspect of
H₂éwsōs
allied with
Flora
child of
Hyperion, Pallas
sibling of
Sol, Luna

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Sources

Source passages

“Roman – Aurora (and later Mater Matuta)”

#15466 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“This would make Uzume analogous to the Greek goddess Eos and the Roman goddess Aurora.”

#15668 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“"Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. "Aurora, the goddess of the morning" . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.”

#15701 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The exact term utilized to describe the color of the cake, "flava," is also utilized by Ovid to describe the dawn goddess Aurora, perhaps indicating that the yellow cakes were associated with the sun in some manner.”

#16001 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Thesan's equivalent in Roman mythology may have been the goddess Aurora”

#16224 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001