Dievas’s Family Tree

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Family

• Aušrinė(child)

  Dievas is the father of Ausrine, the morning star goddess, who serves as herald of the dawn in the celestial household described in Lithuanian dainos.

• Dievo Sūneliai(child)

  Dievas is the father of the Dievo Suneliai, the divine twin horsemen who ride across the sky and court the daughters of Saule in Baltic folk songs.

Has aspect

• Praamžius

  Praamzius is interpreted as the primordial creator aspect of Dievas, representing the supreme god's role as cosmic architect and master of fate in Lithuanian mythographic tradition.

Enemy of

• Velnias

  Dievas and Velnias are cosmic adversaries in Baltic mythology, embodying a dualistic opposition between sky and underworld, order and chaos, across numerous etiological tales and the earth-diver creation myth.

Associated with

• Laima

  Dievas and Laima co-determine human destiny in Lithuanian dainos, with Dievas setting the cosmic framework of darna and Laima weaving the specific fate of each individual at birth.

• Mėnulis

  Dievas punished Menuo by cutting him with a sword for his infidelity to Saule, explaining the waning phases of the moon in the Latvian version of the celestial marriage myth.

• Perkūnas

  Perkunas enforces the cosmic order that Dievas embodies, punishing transgressors with lightning and pursuing Velnias on behalf of celestial law in Lithuanian etiological tales and dainos.

• Saule

  Saule traverses the sky each day and rests at Dievas's celestial hill each night, a journey described in Lithuanian and Latvian dainos that places the sun goddess within the sky father's celestial court.

• Velnias

  Dievas commanded Velnias to dive into the primordial waters to bring up earth, but Velnias hid some in his mouth, which swelled to create mountains and swamps in the Lithuanian earth-diver creation myth.

• World Tree

  Dievas dwells at the summit of the World Tree in Baltic cosmology, presiding over the celestial realm among its highest branches while the underworld of Velnias lies beneath its roots.

• Žemyna

  Dievas and Zemyna form the primordial sky-earth pair in Baltic cosmology, invoked together in Lithuanian prayers and libations where offerings to the earth mother accompany appeals to the sky father.