Deivės Valdytojos

deity intermediate Baltic single tradition · 4

The seven sister goddesses who make garments from human lives (lit. 'Governing Goddesses'). They have similarities with the Fates of Greek mythology and the Norns of Norse mythology, and are associated with Dalia and Laima. The seven sisters are Verpiančioji, Metančioji, Audėja, Gadintoja, Sergėtoja, Nukirpėja, and Išskalbėja.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
1000 CE
Attested period
1000 – 2020
Historical notes
Baltic mythology.

Relationships

syncretized with
Fates, Norns

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Sources

wikipedia (4)

Source passages

“Deivės Valdytojos: The seven sister goddesses who make garments from human lives (lit. 'Governing Goddesses'). They have similarities with the Fates of Greek mythology and the Norns of Norse mythology”

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“Deivės Valdytojos: The seven sister goddesses who make garments from human lives (lit. 'Governing Goddesses'). They have similarities with the Fates of Greek mythology and the Norns of Norse mythology.”

#26375 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“A Lithuanian folktale recorded in 1839 recounts that a man's fate is spun at his birth by seven goddesses known as the deivės valdytojos and used to hang a star in the sky; when he dies, his thread snaps and his star falls as a meteor.”

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