entities: ENT_BALT_MENESS

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_BALT_MENESS Meness   Baltic Moon deity Moon Deity moon; time; marriage; stars; celestial cycle       A           Moon deity; Lithuanian Meness, Latvian Meness (cognate with Latin mensis, PIE *meh₁n̥s-). Notably masculine in Baltic tradition, in contrast to the feminine moon-deity common elsewhere. Meness is paired with or opposed to Saulė (sun goddess); in the mythological narrative they were married but Meness was unfaithful (had an affair with the Morning Star / Auseklis), for which Perkūnas split him with his sword — which is why the moon waxes and wanes. The Saulė–Meness–Auseklis myth cycle is one of the most elaborate surviving Baltic mythological narratives. Gimbutas (1963) pp. 204; Greimas (1992) pp. 221-250. deity

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