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Aurora (mythology)

Aurora
Personification of dawn
17th century ceiling fresco depicting Aurora
AbodeSky
SymbolChariot, saffron, cicada
Genealogy
SiblingsSol and Luna
ConsortAstraeus, Tithonus
ChildrenAnemoi
Equivalents
Greek equivalentEos
Hindu equivalentUshas
Indo-European equivalentHausōs
Slavic equivalentZorya
Japanese equivalentAme-no-Uzume[1]
Nuristani equivalentDisani[1]

Aurōra (Latin: [au̯ˈroːra]) is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas, Aurōra continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos.

  1. ^ a b Witzel, Michael (2005). Vala and Iwato: The Myth of the Hidden Sun in India, Japan, and beyond (PDF).

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