by Aldis Putelis
The goddess of fields and fertility to whom farmers sacrificed to secure an abundant harvest. One of ‘the mothers’, may be compared to dievini – the minor gods, who still are the immediate rulers of human life. One of the few “mothers” listed in Paul Einhorn’s texts in the first half of the 17th century.
by Aldis Putelis
Dievini (diminutive plural from dievs) is a collective name for the group of minor gods of the Latvian pantheon. Mostly, the Dievini act as protecting and household gods. The word itself seems to be a more recent construction. Although being less described in the classical folklore, these could be the deities honored more in day-to-day life as the actual rulers of the household fortune and therefore of more influence.
by Aldis Putelis
A name added to the proper names of different deities mentioned in writings of the Jesuit Joannis Stribingius alias Jochann Stribing in 1606. The word itself appears to be derived from Latvian diminutive from “dievs” – ‘god’, namely dievini, “dievins”, so it can be understood as meaning a minor deity.
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