Laima
Laima is a Baltic goddess of fate. She was associated with childbirth, marriage, and death, and she was also the patron of pregnant women. Laima makes the final decision on individual's fate and is considerably more popular than her sisters.
↻ synthesized from 10 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Birth rituals at the end of the 19th century included offerings to Laima.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Laimė, Dalia, Kārta, Dēkla, Hermes Trismegistus, the Holy Spirit, Žvaigždės, Saulė, Aušrinė, Mėnuo, Žemyna, Dievas, Vakarinė, Indraja, Sėlija, Žiezdrė, Vaivora, Bangpūtys, Ašvieniai, Auštaras, Verpiančioji, Metančioji, Audėja, Gadintoja, Sergėtoja, Nukirpėja, Išskalbėja, Dievas Senelis, Gabija, Praamžius, Vėjopatis, Baubas, Aitvaras, Slogutis, Pinčiukas, Rod, Rozhanitsy, Deivės Valdytojos, Parcae, Norns, Fates, Rodzanice, Lachesis, Gulses, Klotho, Wyrd, Rožanicy, Sudičky, Narenčnice, Rodjenice, Sudjenice, Rojenice, Veļu māte, Laumé, Hecate, God the Father, the Son, Badb, Macha, Mórrígan, Ragana, Perkūnas, Žiburinis, Brigid, Ora, Moirai, Atropos
- allied with
- Gegutė
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“lietuvių bei latvių Laima, Laumė ir lietuvių Austėja" [Mother-Goddess Žemyna in the context of Baltic deities]. Liaudies kultūra (in Lithuanian) (2): 9-19 [14-16]. ISSN 0236-0551. Vaitkevičienė, Daiva (2002). "Laima gimtuvėse ir krikštynose”
#12749 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Her sister was the goddess of life and destiny, Laima, symbolizing the relationship between beginning and end.”
#14507 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Sometimes she was considered to be a sister of Laima (luck).”
#18525 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In classical religious traditions, three separate beings may represent either a triad who typically appear as a group (the Greek Moirai, the Roman Parcae, the Norse Norns, the Baltic Dēkla, Kārta and Laima, or the Irish Badb, Macha and Morrígan)”
#20745 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Baltic: Laima, who sometimes appeared in three forms”
#26767 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001