A dawn god or goddess is a

deity A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over some aspect of the universe and/or life. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' defines ''deity'' as a God (male deity), god or god ...

in a

polytheistic Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one Deity, god. According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese folk religions, is really so, ...

religious tradition who is in some sense associated with the

dawn Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the diffuse sky radiation, appearance of indirect sunlight being Rayleigh scattering, scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc ha ...

. These deities show some relation with the

morning Morning is either the period from sunrise to noon, or the period from midnight to noon. In the first definition it is preceded by the twilight period of dawn, and there are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and nigh ...

, the beginning of the day, and, in some cases, become syncretized with similar solar deities.

Africa

In Egyptian mythology, Tefnut, in part of her being goddess of the morning

dew Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation. As the exposed surface cools by thermal radiation, radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate grea ...

Americas

In Sioux mythology, Anpao, the spirit of the dawn, has two faces.

Asia

Japanese

* Ame-no-Uzume, goddess of dawn, mirth, meditation, revelry and the arts.

Indo-European

* Hindu-Vedic – Ushas

Ugarit - Canaanite

* Shahar_(god) 𐎌𐎈𐎗, שחר. Mentioned in the Ugarit scriptures canon. Brother of Shallem - Dusk, and sun of El (head of the local pantheon). The term is still used as a personal name in the middle east: Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic.

Roman Syria and Galilee

Lucifer The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology. He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bib ...

and

Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...

of The Bible are both referred to as the “morning star” since in ancient time, the morning star had been referred to as an entity of great power.

Philippines

*Munag Sumalâ: the golden Kapampangan serpent child of Aring Sinukuan; represents dawn *Tala: the Tagalog goddess of stars; daughter of Bathala and sister of Hanan;Jocano, F. L. (1969). Philippine Mythology. Quezon City: Capitol Publishing House Inc. also called Bulak Tala, deity of the morning star, the planet Venus seen at dawn *Hanan: The Tagalog goddess of the morning; daughter of Bathala and sister of Tala *Liwayway: the Tagalog goddess of dawn; a daughter of BathalaRomulo, L. (2019). Filipino Children's Favorite Stories. China: Tuttle Publishing, Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

Europe

Indo-European

Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Euro ...

– Hausos (reconstructed proto-goddess) * Albanian – Afërdita (), Prende *

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

– Ayg, Arshaluys * Greek –

Eos In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Eos (; Ionic Greek, Ionic and Homeric Greek ''Ēṓs'', Attic Greek, Attic ''Héōs'', "dawn", or ; Aeolic Greek, Aeolic ''Aúōs'', Doric Greek, Doric ''Āṓs'') is the go ...

* Germanic –

Ēostre ''Ēostre'' ()Sievers 1901 p. 98Robert Barnhart, Barnhart, Robert K. ''The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology'' (1995) . is an List of Anglo-Saxon deities, Anglo-Saxon goddess mentioned by Bede in his 8th century work ''The Reckoning of ...

* Hindu - Ushas * Norse – Dellingr * Roman –

Aurora An aurora ( aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly observed in high-latitude regions (around the Arc ...

(and later Mater Matuta) * Slavic – Zorya * Irish –

Brigid Brigid or Brigit ( , ; meaning 'exalted one'),Campbell, MikBehind the Name.See also Xavier Delamarre, ''brigantion / brigant-'', in ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise'' (Éditions Errance, 2003) pp. 87–88: "Le nom de la sainte irlandaise ''B ...

* Lithuanian – ''Aušra'' or

Aušrinė Aušrinė ("dawning", not to be confused with ''Aušra'', "dawn") is a feminine deity of the morning star (Venus) in the Lithuanian mythology. She is the Wiktionary:antipode, antipode to "Vakarinė", the evening star. Her cult possibly stems fr ...

* Latvian – Austra * Mesopotamian - Aya

Non-Indo-European

* Etruscan – Thesan, Albina (possibly) * Georgian – Dali

References

External links

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