Ushas

The most important of the female deities mentioned in the Vedas is Ushas.

Two hymns each are dedicated to Ushas (the dawn) and to Savitr.

She is sister to Ushas, the Vedic goddess of Dawn.

I wondered if the stars would weep, when Ushas herself was old, to learn of the death of our Commonwealth.

When morning came, I watched the night of Ushas fall from the face of the New Sun.

He is invoked in the morning along with Agni, Ushas and the Asvins.

And Lady Ushas brings us our wind!'

But Urth lives in Ushas and in you."

Griffith) Ushas is invoked as follows:

The form Arap Ushas appears in Albanian folklore, but is a name of the Moon.

Max Müller relates Sarama to the Ushas, the Dawn.

The novel also gives her given name (or at least its first syllables) as Ushas (a reference to the Vedic goddess of that name).

Among the Devas are the Ushas, whose name means "dawn", and Indra, the leader of the Devas.

Old Urth will flower then as a butterfly from its dry husk, and the New Urth shall be called Ushas.

Aurora is comparable to Eos in Greek mythology and to Ushas in Hindu mythology.

He is venerated as the dawn Ushas before the sun rise of nammalvar as he was born before Nammalvar.

Goddesses included Ushas (the dawn), Prithvi and Aditi (the mother of the Aditya gods or sometimes the cow).

Equally prominent gods are the Adityas or Asura gods Mitra-Varuna and Ushas (the dawn).

This mirrors the portrayal of Ratri "night" in the Rig-Veda, where she works in close cooperation but also tension with her sister Ushas "dawn".

FOR A LONG while I stood there in the bow, sifting the sentinels of the night as Ushas's swift motion revealed them.

I leaped as swiftly and perhaps more swiftly than anyone here on Ushas, but I did not slow, as such a leaper begins to slow almost at once.

Among Rigvedic deities, notably Ushas (the dawn) rides in a chariot, as well as Agni in his function as a messenger between gods and men.

Fontenrose also sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh, Dushyanta, and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas).

At length I realized I could not, not because he was not there (for he was), but because Ushas had turned away from him, hiding him, with many others, behind her horizon.

He is celebrated as a demiurge who pushes up the sky, releases Ushas (dawn) from the Vala cave, and slays Vṛtra; both latter actions are central to the Soma sacrifice.