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:
“Every other evening around six o’clock he left home and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Creation’s blithe and petaled word
To the lounged goddess when she rose
Conceding dialogue with eyes
That smile unsearchable repose—”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)