Saulė

Saulė
Sun
Idol of the Saulė used for peasant rituals in the early 20th century from Palūšė, Ignalina District
ConsortMėnuo/Mēness
OffspringŽemyna
Indraja
Sėlija
Žiezdrė
Vaivora
Equivalents
EtruscanUsil
GreekHelios
HinduSurya
Indo-EuropeanSehul
NorseSól
RomanSol

Saulė (Lithuanian: Saulė, Latvian: Saule) is a solar goddess, the common Baltic solar deity in the Lithuanian and Latvian mythologies. The noun Saulė/Saule in the Lithuanian and Latvian languages is also the conventional name for the Sun and originates from the Proto-Baltic name *Sauliā > *Saulē.

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