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	Dievs
		Dievs ("god") is the supreme deity of the Latvians, with the same position Zeus has in Greek religion.
		Dievs is the most frequently mentioned Latvian deity (counting all the usage of the word), and a sky and fertility god.
		Latvian mythology students of the mid-war period have opposed it at great lengths, sometimes even overlooking the fact that the sky-god is very much connected with thunder, allowing the name to be substituted.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/dievs.html (328 words)

	Dievs
		In Latvian mythology, Dievs ("god") was the supreme god.
		In ancient Latvia, Dievs was not the just the father of the gods, he was the essence of them -- every other deity was a different aspect or manifestation of Dievs; this is most true with Mara and Laima.
		Dievs was a god of the sky and fertility.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/di/Dievs.html (97 words)

	Latvian Embassy in China - Latvia National Symbols
		The red colour of the Latvian flag is a particular dark red tone that is referred to as “Latvian red” in the rest of the world.
		The flag’s colour proportions are 2:1:2 (the upper and lower red bands are always twice as wide as the white band in the middle), and the correlation of the width and length of the flag is fixed as 1:2.
		The Latvian national flag, together with the national coat of arms was affirmed in this format by a special parliamentary decree of the Republic of Latvia that was passed on June 15, 1921.
	www.latvianembassy.org.cn /en/symbols.htm (606 words)

	Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
		The term "Swedish era" (Latvian: zviedru laiki) is still synonymous with beneficent rule and a sort of 'Golden Age', at least with respect to all the other rulers Latvia had to deal with- though serfdom was not abolished, it was strictly regulated and a network of schools was established for the peasantry.
		Estonian and Latvian forces defeated the Germans at the Battle of Cēsis in June 1919, and a massive attack by a German and Russian force under Pavel Bermondt-Avalov was repelled in November.
		Latvian Song and Dance Festivals have been held since 1873, normally every five years (this schedule was adjusted most recently for "Rīga 800"), and are one of the most important events in Latvian social life - there is even a law to regulate this event [4].
	www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Latvia (4388 words)

	latvian mythology - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Latvian mythology as being Baltic mythology is very close to Lithuanian mythology Latvian mythology is based primarily off collections of folklore and song texts.
		In AD 98, Tacitus, a Roman, mentioned the worship of God's Mother, goddess in the old Baltic mythology.
		Later texts by authors who presumably knew nothing of Latvian beliefs, substituted supposedly authoritative work substituting Prussian deities, adding extremely unlikely explanations and etymologies.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Latvian-mythology (171 words)

	Baltic Gods
		In Latvian mythology, Jumis is an agriculture and fertility god.
		In Latvian mythology, Miķelis was one of dieva dēli, sons of Dievs, the supreme god.
		perkūnas, "thunder", perkūnija, "thunder-storm", perkūnúoti "to rattle", the Latvian, pērkons, "thunder", Prussian percunis, "thunder") in the Lithuanian mythology was the god of thunder, lightning, and rain.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Ancient_religions/Baltic/baltic_gods.htm (781 words)

	Dievturiba
		It is not identical to the beliefs of the ancient Latvians themselves.
		For example, there is no evidence that the ancients divided their deities into groups of three; in Dievturība, Dievs, Māra; and Laima are a trinity of fate gods and goddesses, for example.
		Dievs (who is the one monotheistic god and emanates the others as aspect of himself)
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/d/di/dievturiba.html (225 words)

	National Symbols of Latvia
		The oak and the linden tree are characteristic elements of the Latvian landscape.
		Latvians themselves have occasionally referred to the Baltic Sea as the Amber Sea (Dzintarjura), reinforcing the symbolic importance of amber (dzintars) in Latvian culture and history.
		At the foot of the freedom monument there is never a lack of flowers, which are placed here with deep respect for those, who have formed this nation and who have sacrificed their lives in the fight for independence for the good of the nation and its people.
	www.combinedendeavor.areur.army.mil /pages/latvia/symbols.htm (1728 words)

	The Ancient Latvian Religion - Dievturiba
		Using the Latvian Dainas3 as their main source of orally transmitted wisdom and traditional values, a group of intellectuals, writers and artists after many meetings and debates decided that instead of synchretizing the ancient Latvian wisdom within the Christian dogma, the uniquely Latvian encounter with the sacred is worthy enough to carve its own destiny.
		Dievs can be interpreted as (i) a unity: all that exists, transforms and remains, (ii) duality: the matter/spirit interface, (iii) trinity: matter, energy and the evolving, unifying and maximizing laws of the Cosmos/Visums and (iv) plurality: all the multifaceted and multifunctional deities of the Latvian Pantheon.
		In the triune interpretation of Dievs, the mediator between Dievs and Māra is the Goddess of Fate, Laime/Laima.
	www.lituanus.org /1987/87_3_06.htm (4719 words)

	== Dievturi ==
		It is of paramount importance to distinguish the religious cognition of God from the glamorous, fabulous representations and legends (mythology) as the images and concepts of religion and mythology have different places in national culture.
		The God himself, Mara - the substantial manifestation of God and the guardian of the material world, and the manifestation of fate, Laima - ruler of the human destiny - are the only entities that are worshipped, praised and respected within Latvian religion according to the divine notion.
		God is the highest, omni-present, perfect goodness and provider of all the good, that is why in myths he is depicted good.
	www.ailab.lv /dievturi/d12.htm (1476 words)

	Dievs - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In ancient Latvian mythology, Dievs was not just the father of the gods, he was the essence of them all.
		Every other deity was a different aspect or manifestation of Dievs; this is most true with Māra and Laima.
		He is historically the same god of Indo-European religion as Tyr, Zeus, Jupiter and Dyaus Pita.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Dievs (110 words)

	Dievs – FREE Dievs Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Dievs Research
		DIEVS -- Latvian sky-dog, who appears in mythology as a sort of well-to-do farmer 36.
		In many religions the sky god is powerful and all-knowing (e.g., Dievs), and the earth goddess is maternal and associated with fertility.
		Gods of death and the underworld (e.g., Osiris and Hel...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-362725.html (639 words)

	Eurasian World Trees
		The sky is considered to be a mountain, sometimes of stone, and is the residence of the sky gods.
		Dievs' family is a later development; in the family, Dieva deli ("God's Sons") play the primary role.
		Besides such anthropomorphic characteristics, another characteristic that gives Dievs a universal significance may be observed: he appears as the creator of order in the world on the one hand, and as the judge and guardian of moral law on the other.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /cosmic_tree/eurasian-worldtrees.htm (2315 words)

	Dievs@Everything2.com
		In Latvian mythology, Dievs is a complex figure; he is represented as leading the divine hierarchy.
		Once upon a time, Dievs was considered father to all other gods, but oral history and locally-written accounts reveal that Dievs is simply a foundation: all other gods simply represent smaller aspects of him.
		Dievs may be primarily subdivided into Mara and Laime, but I don't know why.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node=Dievs (269 words)

	CHAPTER IV
		This god is of Indo-European origin, and his name, as in some religions of the Near East, has been expanded to embrace all gods (God — the name of the highest of gods, god — the name applied to all gods).
		It is the god of the underworld, cattle, magic and wealth, related to the Indian god Varuna and Iranian Ahura, Germanic Wotan, Odin, Slavonic Veles.
		Jonas Lasickis’s notes on Samogitian gods in the middle of the 16th century, presented a great multitude of names of gods, goddesses and demons, which were very often unheard of either in other sources or in folklore.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm (3937 words)

	Ziemassvetki
		Ziemassvetki celebrated the birth of Dievs, the highest god of Latvian mythology.
		During the festival, candles are lit for Dievs and Martins and a fire is kept burning until the end, when its extinguising signals an end to the unhappiness of the previous year.
		During the ensuing feast, a space at the table is reserved for Dievs, who was said to arrive on a sleigh.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/zi/Ziemassvetki.html (134 words)

	Latvian History
		"Dievs Svētī Latviju" (God Bless Latvia) by Kārlis Baumanis has it's first public performance and is instantly loved and adopted as not-yet-independent Latvia's "national anthem".
		1949 -- 42,000 Latvians are deported to Siberia.
		Latvian Parliament later adopts a declaration restoring independence to Latvia with a transitional period.
	www.ltn.lv /~krz/latvia/lat_history.html (1078 words)

	Forum \| Do Latvians believe in God?
		Latvians did this in poetic form, by crafting folk songs called dainas, into which this wisdom was “locked.” But, of course, the dainas didnt hold only planting and harvesting wisdom; they included all of life: the joys and the sorrows, the good days and the bad days.
		Wishing for a “Latvian Latvia” for his people, the archeologist Ernests Brastiņš (1892-1942) turned to this inheritance of folk songs and was the first to devote himself to the wide and systematic research of Latvian religion.
		Dievs is not harsh, he does not punish and he does not ask for submission in his presence.
	latviansonline.com /index.php/forum/viewthread/32949 (5095 words)

	Latvia 1920-1940, 1990- - nationalanthems.info
		Because of the Russians forbidding the use of the word "Latvia" in the song, it was replaced with the word "Baltics".
		The song was first performed publicly in 1873 at a singing festival, and first performed as a national anthem upon Latvian independence in 1918.
		During the time that Latvia was part of the Soviet Union, the song was again forbidden, but upon leaving the U. in 1990, the anthem was again restored as the national anthem of Latvia.
	david.national-anthems.net /lv.htm (137 words)

	LEXILINE JOURNAL: LexiLine Journal #52-A - 2002 : Amun Menes Thoth Iti Osiris Sior - Time Passages & God in Heaven
		As for Osiris, OSIRIS is Latvian ZARS / ZARAS /ZARI "branches" and e.g.
		Latvian ZARAS (branches, divisions) with Latvian ASARAS "tears, i.e.
		Latvian SVARS "wieght", a concept of gravity which may be represented by the hieroglyphs of OSIRIS in certain hieroglyphic contexts pertaining, for example, to the scattering of the remains of Osiris on the earth and there then afterwards representing the primordial male force.
	lexiline.blogspot.com /2002/10/lexiline-journal-52-2002-amun-menes.html (1658 words)

	Igor K. Garshin. About an opportunity of the Indo-European origins of the Bible names
		Besides necessity in name the God is present at presence of knowledge of others, let imaginary, gods, that at a pray sincerity of heart (in the modern language - concentration or an orientation of mental energy) addressed to this God, instead of to other "phantoms".
		The God of a thunder-storm, agriculture and war Yav testifies to aggressive character of farmers, severe human sacrifices and wars with the neighbours at farmers – sun-workshipper of Aztecs, Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs Hanaanian.
		There is a variant in which this duck conceals a part of silt in a beak and with envy to the god himself creates from this silt that part of the world, which harmful to the person (as opposed to the god) [9].
	www.garshin.bravehost.com /Jehovah.htm (9818 words)

	Latvia
		Estonian and Latvian forces defeated the Germans at the Battle of Cesis in June 1919, and a massive attack by a German and Russian force under Pavel Bermondt-Avalov was repelled in November.
		One of the most striking features of Latvian culture to visitors is the mid-summer festival of Ligo or Jani - a celebration of the summer solstice and the feast day of St. John the Baptist.
		Latvian Song and Dance Festivals have been held since 1873, normally every five years (this schedule was adjusted most recently for "Riga 800"), and are one of the most important events in Latvian social life - there is even a law to regulate this event [4].
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Latvia.html (4377 words)

	Pagan
		DIEVS, DIEVINS (GOD) The Latvian name “Dievs” (“God”) is said to have originally meant “Sky”.
		“Dievs” is also sometimes delineated as a gray-haired rider in a gray cloak, a sword at his side.
		Latvians thought that celebrations were personified in gods and goddesses, such as Metenis, Ziemassvetki (Christmas), the already mentioned Janis and Usins, then Martins, Mikelis, etc. Some of the abovementioned were brought to Latvia’s territory by Christianity and ‘converted to paganism’ by Latvians.
	www.theoldpath.com /website/iceheart/page3.html (1084 words)

	Untitled
		Dievs finds the necessity to eat and sleep bothersome to an extreme and will often neglect his own health if no one else is around to remind him.
		Dievs ponders on this aspect of the universe constantly, and in his own way, is reverent almost to the point of praying to this force as his diety.
		Like his royal counterpart, Dievs sports the ever-so-slightly pointed ear tips, though as is common to the SM universe, this does not indicate any deviation from the human race, but is an indicator of his true royal bloodline.
	www.seiryuu.org /~asellus/ref/stats.html (1796 words)

	The Latvian Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The anthem first appeared in the second half of the 19th century when the Latvian people were beginning to openly exhibit a strong sense of national pride and identity.
		Although most Latvians did not yet dare to dream of a sovereign state totally independent of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the song "Dievs, svētī Latviju!" served as a powerful catalyst for the emerging national consciousness.
		On June 7, 1920 "Dievs, svētī Latviju!" was officially proclaimed the national anthem of the Republic of Latvia.
	www.li.lv /en/?id=39 (381 words)

	Latvian Paganism - SciForums.com
		The ancient Latvians and the Dievturi metaphorically express themselves as being constituted of three parts: the body, soul and velis.17 In this tri-partition of the Self, the physical body returns to Mother Earth/Mâra and the soul reunites with the Cosmic Mind/Dievs.
		In Latvian mythologies she is seen racing across the sky in her golden chariot pulled by two fiery steeds, or sailing the sky in her golden boat which sinks into the seas each evening.
		Dievs was depicted as a handsome man in a robe of silver with matching cap, his clothes adorned with pendants, carrying a sword.
	www.sciforums.com /-t-8864.html (5831 words)

	OCCULT-G
		He is also the God of those who have been disfigured or maimed through heroism, in the line of duty or through no fault of their own.
		Remember, Gods are really cosmic magicians who create and mutate things through the Word and human magicians achieve their ends by invocation, evocation, chants, mantras, orisons, etc. All things are as they are because of the words we give to them.
		As our gods are assimilated by us, they inevitably become symbols while the common man worships his gods as idealized bodies of a philosophy he can never hope to understand.
	users.rcn.com /occult/occulus/g.html (2923 words)

	West Baltic Latvian / East Baltic Lithuanian - Harvey E. Mayer
		Latvian words of that kind match up more with demonstrably much older items, ones matching Hittite and Tokharian elements as well as Latin, Greek, Gothic, etc. items, ones that tend to last in the west but die out in the east.
		I classify as "eastern", Latvian or Lithuanian words matched by two "eastern" language and one, two, or three "western" language words, and those matched by three "eastern" language and one, two, three, or four "western" language words.
		I classify as "neutral", Latvian or Lithuanian words matched by one word of each type, by two "eastern" language and four "western" language words, by three "eastern" language and five "western" language words, and by Hittite and/or Tokharian words only.
	www.lituanus.org /1993_3/93_3_05.htm (1621 words)

	Celebrating Midsummer Eve the Latvian Way
		Many Latvians fled to the west as refugees when their country was overrun by the Soviets at the end of World War II.
		In the Latvian midsummer festival, for example, the arrival of Janis is heralded by much music-making, and he is pictured as tall and handsome, with a wreath of oak leaves on his head.
		The use of oak, birch and other leaves, branches and flowers is very important to this celebration, as Latvian men, women and children bedeck themselves and their homes with wreaths and garlands to celebrate the arrival of this beloved deity of fertility and plenty.
	www.widdershins.org /vol8iss2/01.htm (1397 words)

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