Mahte
In Latvian mythology, the term Māte stands for "mother", sometimes written in English as Mahte. It was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses. They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of specific phenomena. According to professor Lotte Motz, scholar Haralds Biezais mentioned there were at least 70 characters in Baltic religion identified with the title of Mate.[1]
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Following are some of the Mate characters:
- Bangu māte
- Ceļa māte
- Dārza māte
- Dēkla māte
- Gausu māte
- Jūras māte - considered a goddess of the sea (Jura 'sea')[2]
- Kapu māte
- Kārta māte
- Krūmu māte
- Lapu māte
- Lauka māte or Lauku māte
- Lazdu māte
- Lietus māte
- Linu māte
- Lopu māte
- Mieža māte
- Meža māte
- Miglas māte
- Pirts māte
- Rijas māte
- Sēņu māte
- Smilšu māte
- Sniega māte
- Tirgus māte
- Ūdens māte
- Upes māte
- Vēja māte
- Veļu māte ot Vélių motę - mother of the souls/spirits[3]
- Zemes māte
- Ziedu māte
References
- Mottz, Lotte. The Faces of the Goddess. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1997. pp. 221-222 (footnote nr. 27). ISBN 0-19-508967-7
- Lurker, Manfred. The Routledge Dictionary Of Gods Goddesses Devils And Demons. Routledge. 2004. p. 96. ISBN 0–415–34018–7 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: Invalid ISBN.
- Laurinkienė, Nijolė. "Požemio ir mirusiųjų karalystės deivė" [Goddesses of the Kingdom of the Dead and the Underworld]. In: Metai n. 1 2010. p. 121.
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