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:
“How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“under chenille bed spreads
The farm girls are feeling the goddess in them struggle and rise
brooding”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)