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:

    “Beloved, may your sleep be sound
    That have found it where you fed.
    What were all the world’s alarms
    To mighty Paris when he found
    Sleep upon a golden bed
    That first dawn in Helen’s arms?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Mother,
    strange goddess face
    above my milk home,
    that delicate asylum,
    I ate you up.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)