#saules meita

[chrysocomae]

The Daughters of Saule (1912)

[magica-pseudoacademica]

Perkūnas, the god of thunder, is one of the four highest gods of the Lithuanian pantheon of the thirteenth century, along with Adnojas (the god of water), Kalevelis (a god-smith, the guardian of dead souls) and Medeina-Žvėrūna (the goddess of hunting and warriors). At the centre of the Prussian pantheon of gods, there is also Perkūnas, related to power, maturity and fulfillment, and different from Patrimpas, a young god of vegetation, and from Patulas, the god of the dead. Considerable offerings were still being made to Perkūnas as late as the seventeenth century. In Latvian mythological songs, Pērkons is one of the most important mythical personages along with the syncretic personage Dievs, his sons Dieva dēli, and the female deities Saulite (little Sun), Saules meita (the daughter of Saule) and Laima.

Daiva Vaitkevičienė, “The Rose and Blood: Images of Fire in Baltic Mythology” in Cosmos: The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society (2003) 19(1):21-42.

[alexandrakrolikowska]

Here Comes The Sun

Analog photography 2022

Made within RUCKA Artist Residency in Cesis, Latvia, with support of the Artist at Risk grant program.

In the Baltic mythology, the Sun deity becomes of central importance, and finds its manifestation in female form. 

Saule, a sun goddess in Latvia, for a long time before Christianisation of the region was considered as a mother, which we can hear in the song “Saule, Pērkons, Daugava” (based on the text from the poem Daugava by the Latvian poet Rainis, while the musical part is composed by Mārtiņš Brauns): “Sun was our mother,  Daugava the nanny of our pain, Pērkons was the devil’s striker, That was our father”. Saule is the giver of light and warmth and the controller of human time, and she determines the well-being and regeneration of all life on earth. Thus, representing regeneration as an idea within herself, she could be represented as both, mother and daughter. 

The artwork “Here Comes the Sun” depicts the archetypal goddess, which solemnly holds the planet Earth in her hands. This is Saule / Sun-Woman, who is raising the world as a child, up to the sun, which is a sign of giving it life and fortune. Moreover, with it she is a young goddess - Saules meita / Sun Daughter who just appeared on the canvas of a mythological narrative, and received the world to take care of it, so she greets it in the sun rays. 

In the way, how the Christian church (in general and in particular since the exhibition happened at the space of St. Anna Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cesis) requires renovation, and humanistic ideas require regeneration, in the same way the world cries to be healed, and our planet - to be cherished and taken care of. 

[latvianart]

Janis Rozentāls (1866-1916)

Saules meitas // Daughters of Sun (1912)

[horsebackridinginlatvia]

“They associate with Saules meita, the daughter of the sun, and when she is sinking into the sea with only her crown still visible, Dieva dēli come to her rescue.”

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dievs

[shinshun-chanson-show]

＠Par Latviju　ラトビアのこと

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ZVCuQcr5E

 ラトビアのアンドリス・キビックス（1977年生まれ）が歌う。彼は以前バスケットボール選手で、ストリートボールの世界チャンピオンでもある。

この歌にはラトビアの歴史が歌われていて、小国の運命というか、様々な国に侵略され、特にロシアには何度も支配され、1991年に独立した。

A singer of Latvia, Andris Kivics sang it.

He was a basketball player before, and was a world champion of streetball.

This song tells about the history of Latvia, which was conquered by many countries.

Especially it was dominated by Russia many times and was independent in 1991.

 しかし人口200万そこそこで、マルチリンガルが多く、特にロシア語話者が多いためロシアにとってはEUへの窓口とみられているのは皮肉だ。

Its population is only about 2000000, so there are many multilinguals, especially there are many who speaks Russian.

Then Latvia is thought to be an entrance to EU from Russia, ironically.

 以前、エストニアについて書いたときにも言ったが、私はラトビアの首都リガを舞台にした「ターリン行きの船」という芝居を演じたことがあって、一度行きたいと思っていた。サナトリウムの熟年の女性患者と同年代の医師の淡い恋物語だが、最後はけっこうドラマチックだった。

I once played “Old fashioned comedy”

歌詞と意味

Mans draugs mēs ar Tevi dzīvojam Latvijā.

Mēs bieži nesaprotam, bet mums tā ir vienīgā.

Tu mosties ar Latvijas rītu ej gulēt, kad saule riet.

Tu vari aizbraukt tālu bet no Latvijas Tev neaiziet.

 友よ　僕と君　ぼくらはラトビアに住んでいる

理解できないことがよくあるけれど　唯一の（祖国）

朝ラトビアで目覚め　太陽が沈むと眠る

遠くに旅することはできるがラトビアから離れられない

Septiņsimt gadus vācieši nāca.

Krievi, zviedri, lai nospiestu mūs.

Uz ceļiem, bet latvieši nesalūzt.

Nesalūzt jo mīl šo zemi.

Cer mājās atgriezties.

Satikt savus mīļos Rīgas lidostā nosēsties.

 700年にドイツ人が来た

ロシア人スウェーデン人が抑圧した

でもラトビア人は屈しない

この国��愛しているから屈しない

故郷に帰りたい

リガの空港で愛する人たちに会うために

(2x):

Uzliec roku man uz pleca.

Uzliec roku sev uz sirds.

Lai kur Tu arī dotos, Latviju Tev neaizmirst.

 君の手をぼくの肩に置いて

手を君の胸に当てて

どこにいても君はラトビアを忘れないだろう

Tagad par tiem grūtajiem laikiem.

Man ir sagatavots viens stāsts par to.

Lūdzu ieklausieties, ieklausieties nepārtraucot:

Tūkstošs deviņsimti četrdesmit sestā gadā skaistā rītā pavasarī...

...atnāca ādas mēteļos vīri.

Pie mana vectēva teica - jānāk līdz!

Gandrīz veselu gadu viņš stūra mājā mocījās.

Viņš teica - Latvija būs brīva!

Un ne no kā viņš nebaidījās iznāca ārā, bija piedzimusi meita.

Nebija no kā izdzīvot...

Viņš teica:

Es to visu nevarētu...

...Savu Latviju nemīlot...

 今あの困難な時代に

ぼくは物語を用意した

聞いて　邪魔しないで

1946年の美しい春の朝

革のコートを着た男たちが来た

そして私の祖父に行って「来い！」

1年近く彼は小屋の中で苦労した

そして言った「ラトビアに自由を！」

何も恐れず出てきて娘が生まれた

生き残るすべはなかった

彼は言った

「私は何もできなかった

ラトビアを愛することだけしか」

[simtgadesklase]

“Saules meitas jostas auda ... Mēness dēli klāt stāvēja, ar sudraba lukturiem”

[gryewaren]

For @mythologicalnet‘s creation event  → Latvian Mythology

      ↳  Auseklis (derived from root aus-, meaning "dawn") was a Latvian god, and the personification of the celestial body Venus.  Auseklis is closely associated with Mēness (“moon”). They both are Dieva dēli (“sons of God”), and are thus confused with each other and with other male deities. Auseklis is the groom of Saules meita (“daughter of the sun”).

[mkmiu]

saules meita

Es esmu saules meita. Man vislabāk patīk siltumā, kad saule staros lēni slīd pār manu ādu. Man viņas skāriens tuvs un pazīstams. Skāries tik, cik nepieskāries, bet var just un vairāk kā ar pirkstiem. Man patīk basām kājām zālē brist. Brist ūdenī. Ezera vidū iepeldēt un pagulēt tur kur vissiltāk. Tur kur stari sasildījuši ir virsējo kārtu. IR mana kārta just. Tik tā vien. Es esmu saules meita. 

[petitepointplace]

Saules Meita  the Latvian Goddess of the sun’s renewal, daughter of the sun Goddess Saule. Dressed in fine silk clothes, Saules Meita wears a golden ring and a garland of leaves. At the winter solstice, it is said that Saule is tired out from her year’s worth of travels across the sky every day, and she steps down from her position in favor of her daughter. Saules Meita takes up her mother’s place in the sky and the sun is reborn. Saules Meita’s name means “daughter of the sun” and the Lithuanian version is Saules Dukryte. 

A Sun Goddess for Sunday