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:

    “Each dawn is clear
    Cold air bites the throat.
    Thick frost on the pine bough
    Leaps from the tree
    snapped by the diesel”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “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)