Saulė
c. 500 BCE – 1400 CEattested
the eastern Baltic
- Baltic
The sun as a goddess, driving a copper-wheeled cart across the sky and weeping amber tears into the Baltic. Baltic folk song preserves her in thousands of verses, more than any text ever recorded.
Known for
- the sun as a woman
- amber as her tears
- preserved in folk song, not scripture
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.