Beaivi

Beaivi, Beiwe, Bievve, Beivve or Biejje is the Sami Sun-deity; the name of the deity is the same as the name of the Sun.

She made the plants grow so that the reindeer flourished and reproduced, and brought wealth and prosperity to the humans.

The sacrificed animals' meat would be threaded onto sticks, which were then bent into rings and tied with bright ribbons.

The Sami believed that madness (in the shape of psychoses and depression) were provoked by the lack of sunshine and light during the long, dark winter.

In Sami myth, she travels with her daughter, Beaivi-nieida, through the sky in an enclosure covered by reindeer bones or antlers, bringing spring with them.