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:
“These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
Waking in the dawn of the morning,
In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,
Sleeping in the cold night’s arms.”
—Pedro, Calderón De La Barca (1600–1681)
“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)