entities: ENT_BALT_SAULE

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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_SAULE Saulė   Baltic Sun goddess Solar Deity sun; light; justice; weaving; amber; spinning; fate       A           Sun goddess; Lithuanian Saulė, Latvian Saule. One of the most prominent deities in Baltic folk song (daina / dainas): she is a spinning, weaving, dancing maiden who drives a copper chariot across the sky, rests at night in an amber island in the sea, and dispenses justice (especially for orphans and the poor). The solar deity is feminine in Baltic (unlike Germanic/Norse Sol, she is central rather than peripheral). In the celestial myth cycle, Saulė is betrothed to or formerly married to Meness (moon); their relationship is often described as troubled (divorce, a quarrel judged by Perkūnas). Associated with amber — tears of Saulė — which is uniquely prominent in Baltic religion given the Baltic amber trade. Gimbutas (1963) pp. 203-204; Greimas (1992) pp. 188-220. deity

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