Zorya
[1] She lives in the Palace of the Sun, opens the gate for him in the morning so that he can set off on a journey through the sky, guards his white horses,[a] she is also described as a virgin.
These images date back to ancient concepts from the initially fetishistic (the Sun in the form of a ring or circle) to the later anthropomorphic.
One of them, fiery red, signed as "morning zorya", holds a red sun in her right hand in the form of a ring, and in her left hand she holds a torch resting on her shoulder, ending in a box from which emerges a light green stripe passing into dark green.
This stripe ends in another woman's right hand, in green, signed as "evening zorya", with a bird emerging from her left sleeve.
[3] According to scholarship, Lithuanian folklore attests a similar dual role for luminous deities Vakarine and Ausrine:[10][11] Vakarine, the Evening Star, made the bed for solar goddess Saulė, and Aušrinė, the Morning Star, lit the fire for her as she prepared for another day's journey.
[12] In other accounts, Ausrine and Vakarine are said to be daughters of the female Sun (Saule) and male Moon (Meness),[13][14] and they tend their mother's palace and horses.
When the chain breaks it will be the end of the world.Zara-Zaranitsa Krasnaya Devitsa (aka "Dawn the Red Maiden") appears interchangeably with Maria (Mother of God) in different versions of the same zagovory plots as the supreme power that a practitioner applies to.
fall upon my rye, that it may grow up tall as a forest, stout as an oak!Mother zarya [apparently twilight here] of morning and evening and midnight!
as ye quietly fade away and disappear, so may both sicknesses and sorrows in me, the servant of God, quietly fade and disappear—those of the morning, and of the evening, and of the midnight!Professor Bronislava Kerbelytė cited that in Russian tradition, the Zoryas were also invoked to help in childbirth (with the appellation "зорки заряночки") and to treat the baby (calling upon "заря-девица", or "утренняя заря Параскавея" and "вечерняя заря Соломонея").
[28] They also function as Rozhanitsy:[29] Another folk saying from Poland is thus: Żarze, zarzyczki, jest was trzy, zabierzcie od mojego dziecka płakanie, przywróćcie mu spanie.
[33] In a magical love charm from Poland, the girl asks for the dawn (or morning-star) to go to the girl's beloved and force him to love no other but her:[34] Ukrainian also has words deriving from *zoŗà: зі́рка (dialectal зі́ра zira and зі́ри ziry) zírka, a diminutive meaning 'little star', 'starlet', 'asterisk'; зі́рнйця zirnitsa (or зі́рнйці zirnytsi, a poetic term meaning 'little star', 'aurora, dawn'.
[35] In a saying collected in "Харківщині" (Kharkiv Oblast), it is said that "there are many stars (Зірок) in the sky, but there are only two Zori: the morning one (світова) and the evening one (вечірня)".
[36] In an orphan's lament, the mourner says she will take the "keys of the dawn" ("То я б в зорі ключі взяла").
Why at Pan Ivan's,[e]At Pan Ivan's in his Court,In his Court, and in his dwelling,And in his dwelling are two pleasures:The first pleasure—to get his son married;And second pleasure—to give his daughter in marriageIn a Slovene folksong titled "Zorja prstan pogubila" (Zorja lost her ring), the singer asks for mother (majka), brother (bratec), sister (sestra) and darling (dragi) to look for it.
[44] In a charm collected in Arkhangelsky and published in 1878 by historian Alexandra Efimenko [ru], the announcer invokes зоря Мария and заря Маремъяния, translated as "Maria-the-Dawn" and "Maremiyaniya-the-Dawn".
