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Auseklis

deity sky Baltic single tradition · 4

Auseklis is a cognate of Aurora, which stems from Proto-Italic *ausōs, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *haéusōs, the "dawn" conceived as divine entity.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020
Historical notes
Pre-Christian Latvia to present.

Relationships

co occurs with
Ēastre, Ratri, H₂éwsōs, Aoos, *Hušas, Ušå, Ušahina, Aotis, Aurvandil, Jutrzenka, Jitřenka, Jutrobog, Shahar, Ēarendel, At-Tariq, Barnumbirr, Uṣas, Eos, Aušrinė, Aurora, Indra, Mater Matuta, Ayg, Aušra, Austra, Hesperus, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Zorya

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (4)
  1. Aurora (mythology)
  2. Mater Matuta
  3. *H₂éwsōs
  4. Phosphorus (morning star)

Source passages

“It has cognates in the goddesses Ēṓs, Uṣas, Aušrinė, Auseklis and Ēastre.”

#15686 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“This story may itself reflect a broader Indo-European archetype of a reluctant dawn goddess, which also perhaps manifests itself in Greek myths regarding Eos and the Latvian deity Auseklis.”

#16005 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Latvian: Auseklis (ausa "dawn" attached to the derivative suffix -eklis), personification of the morning star, and a reluctant goddess of the dawn”

#18275 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Auseklis”

#41166 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001