Dawn Goddess

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:

    “Then leaf subsides to leaf.
    So Eden sank to grief,
    So dawn goes down to day.
    Nothing gold can stay.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)