Juras Mate (pronounced YOU-rahs MAH-teh) is the Latvian Goddess of the Sea. Also seen as Juhras Mate, her name means Mother of the Sea—she is one of many Latvian mother Goddesses or Mates. She was particularly venerated among the coastal peoples, where fishermen would ask her to ensure a good catch. She is identified with the Lithuanian Goddess Jurate, whose name and attributes as a healing Goddess she shares.

Zemyna (pronounced zuh-MEE-nah) is the Lithuanian Goddess of the earth, also known as Zemes Mate in Latvia. She is the archetypical Mother Nature, and brings life to all things. Honored at every birth and every festival, offerings of bread, beer, and herbs were laid on the ground, tied to trees, or thrown into moving water to thank her. Zemyna is the daughter of Saule, Goddess of the Sun, and her husband Meness or Menulis, God of the Moon. Her name means “earth” or “mother of the soil,” and she is also associated with the underworld, in so far as the dead were returned to her arms in the earth. Baltic poems gave her the epithets “bloomer” and “she who raises flowers.”

Darza Mate (pronounced DAR-zah MAH-teh) is the Latvian Goddess of gardens. Also seen as Darzamat, her name means Mother of the Garden—she is one of many Latvian mother Goddesses or Mates. Her name is used by a Polish black metal band, who honor her with such songs as “Secret Garden”.

Meza Mate (pronounced MEH-zah MAH-teh) is the Latvian Goddess of the forest and forest animals. People who relied on the forest and its creatures for their survival prayed to her for success in hunting and wood gathering. Also seen as Mezha Mate, her name means Mother of the Forest—she is one of many Latvian mother Goddesses or Mates.

Artio (pronounced ARE-tee-oh) is the Gaulish Goddess of wild animals, especially bears. She was worshipped in Switzerland, where a bronze statue of her feeding a bear calls her Deae Artioni. She is also associated with fertility and fruition, since breeding bears spend their hibernation pregnant and give birth when they rise in the spring.

The Perit are Albanian Goddesses of justice. They appear in the mountains as beautiful fairies dressed in white. They are mostly benevolent, but will punish those who are wasteful by turning them into hunchbacks.

Pereplut (pronounced pi-ri-PLUT) is the Slavic Goddess of drinking. She also rules over changes in luck. Her worshippers honored her by drinking from a ram’s horn.

The Zoryas are Slavic Goddesses of dawn and dusk, who guard the universe from destruction. They watch over the doomsday God, in the form of a dog who is chained to the star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor. If the dog ever breaks free, he will eat the constellation and the universe will be destroyed.

There is some controversy over whether there are two or three Zoryas. Zorya Utrennyaya (“Aurora of the Morning”) is the Morning Star. Every morning she opens the gates of the eastern palace of her father Dazhdbog, the sun God, so that his horses may pull his chariot across the sky. She is also known as Zvezda Danica, Zvezda Dennitsa, Zwezda Dnieca, or Zvezda Zornitsa (Zvezda means “star”).

Zorya Vechernyaya (“Aurora of the Evening”) is the Evening Star. She closes the gates again in the evening when Dazhdbog returns home. She is also known as Vecernja Zvezda, Zvezda Vechernaya, Zwezda Wieczoniaia, Zwezda Wieczernica, or Zvezda Vechernitsa.

Some versions include a Midnight Star, Zorya Polunochnaya, but, as Polunocnica or Lady Midnight, she has a counterpart named Poludnica or Lady Midday. This fits better with the dual nature of many of the Slavic deities, such as Dolya and Nedolya.

Giltine (pronounced GIL-tea-nay) is the Lithuanian Goddess of death. Her name derives from a word which means both “yellow” and “stinging”, and it is said that she has a poisonous tongue. She collects the poison from graveyards, and then uses it to lick those whose death is imminent. She is also known to strangle her victims. Giltine is usually shown as tall and thin, dressed in white, and with her tongue sticking out.

Berehynia is the Ukranian Goddess of protection. While some argue that she is a recent invention, made up to personify the new independence of Ukranian women, her symbols have been used for centuries in pysanky (egg-decorating) and rushnyky (embroidery of ritual cloth). Her form, a woman with her arms raised, has been modified through the centuries but has remained a symbol of protection.