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(Latvian), Lithuanian:
AuÅ”rinė
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Auseklis

Baltic deity
Also known as: Ausrine
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Auseklis, in Baltic religion, the morning star and deity of the dawn. The Latvian Auseklis was a male god, the Lithuanian AuÅ”rinė a female.

Related in name to the Vedic Uį¹£as and the Greek Eos, goddesses of dawn, Auseklis is associated in Latvian solar mythology with Mēness (Moon) and Saule (Sun), being subordinate to the former and along with him a rival suitor of Sauleā€™s daughter, Saules meita.

According to Lithuanian traditions AuÅ”rinė had an adulterous relationship with the moon god, Mėnuo, for which Mėnuo was punished by the god PerkÅ«nas (Latvian: Pērkons).