Hausos

Also known as h₂éwsōs

' or (), romanized as Hausos''''', is the reconstructed name of the dawn goddess in Proto-Indo-European mythology.

Key facts

Deity.type: Indo-European
Deity.image: File:Savrasov dawn steppe.jpg
Deity.caption: The dawn rising on the Ukrainian steppes (1852), by Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov
Deity.hinduism_equivalent: Ushas
Deity.slavic_equivalent: Zorya
Deity.equivalent2: Ēostre
Deity.equivalent2_type: West Germanic
Deity.roman_equivalent: Aurora
Deity.greek_equivalent: Eos
Deity.equivalent3_type: Lithuanian
Deity.equivalent3: Aušrinė
Deity.Albanian_equivalent: Prende

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: personification
Gender: female
Child: Lucifer
Father: Dyēus
Sibling: Divine twins
Image: Eos.jpg

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derivative work: Aurora
culture: Proto-Indo-Europeans
topic's main category: Category:H₂éwsōs
Commons category: Hausos
worshipped by: Proto-Indo-European mythology
domain of saint or deity: dawn
different from: Hausa

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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections

Contents

Name
Etymology
Epithets
Evidence
Description
Later Traditions
Greek and Roman tradition
Eos
Aphrodite
Aurora
Indo-Iranian tradition
Baltic tradition
Saulė
Aušrinė
Slavic tradition
Zorya
Germanic tradition
Balkan tradition
Celtic tradition
Others
Poetic and liturgic formula
In non-Indo-European traditions
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

' or (), romanized as Hausos''''', is the reconstructed name of the dawn goddess in Proto-Indo-European mythology.

Her attributes were subsequently expanded and adopted into female deities found in subsequent cultures and mythologies, including solar goddesses. is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her characterization in subsequent traditions.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hausos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.