According to the Slavic translation of the Chronicle by John Malalas (1261), a smith named Teliavelis made the Sun and threw it into the sky.

She was held in a tower by a powerful king and rescued by the zodiac (Signa Zodiaci) using a giant sledgehammer.

In the Lithuanian mythology, Saulė was mother of other planets: Indraja (Jupiter), Sėlija (Saturn), Žiezdrė (Mars), Vaivora (Mercury).

Lithuanian Rasos (turned into Saint Jonas' Festival by Christianity) and Latvian Līgo (turned into Jāņi) involve making wreaths, looking for the magical fern flower, burning bonfires, dancing around and leaping over the fire, and greeting the Sun when it rises at around 4 am next morning.

[17][18] In Lithuania, the Sun (identified as female) rides a car towards her husband, the Moon, "dancing and emitting fiery sparks" on the way.

[22] In folksongs, Saule sinks into the bottom of a lake to sleep at night, in a silver cradle "in the white seafoam".

[19] In other accounts, she is said to sail the seas on a silver[30] or a golden boat,[26] which, according to legend, is what her chariot transforms into for her night travels.

[21][31] In a Latvian folksong, Saule hangs her sparkling crown on a tree in the evening and enters a golden boat to sail away.

[31] The sun's steeds are also portrayed as having hooves and bridles of gold in the dainas, and as golden beings themselves or of a bay colour, "reflect[ing] the hues of the bright or the twilight sky".

[34] Scholarship points that the expressions geltoni žirgeliai or dzelteni kumeliņi ('golden' or 'yellow horses'), which appear in Latvian dainas, seem to be a recurrent poetic motif.

[11] According to studies by professor Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and ethnologue Nijolė Laurinkienė [lt], Saule is also depicted in folksongs as a "mother" (Lithuanian motinėlė, Latvian māmuliņa)[31] who comforts orphans, which is the reason why the sun takes time to rise.