Dec 7, 2025
Latvian Mythology: Saule and the Baltic Cosmos
In the vast landscape of world mythologies, Latvian spiritual traditions stand distinctly apart. Where most Indo-European cultures elevated powerful male sky gods to supreme positions—Zeus, Odin, Jupiter—the ancient Latvians centered their entire cosmology around a radiant feminine force: Saule, the Sun Goddess. The very structure of the Latvian language reveals this fundamental orientation. The…