A dawn goddess is a deity in a polytheistic religious tradition who is in some sense associated with the dawn.
Examples of dawn goddesses include:
- the reconstructed Indo-European dawn goddess, see Hausos
- her reflexes in historical daughter traditions:
- Greek Eos
- Roman Aurora
- Vedic Ushas
Famous quotes containing the words dawn and/or goddess:
“The dawn alps,
the stilled snake of
river asleep in its
wide bed ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)