Dawn and Night
deity figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Night · Dawn · Uṣas · the auspicious young maiden of day · the two divine daughters of heaven · the two mothers
spoken of as
1 expressionUṣas and Night“Dawn and Night”1 mention
Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
Night has become the auspicious one who brings to rest all the moving world.
in the texts
Rigveda
Paired goddesses of night and dawn, described as weavers of the sacrifice and as figures whose dawns Indra generates or wrests.
Performing their good deeds, moistened as by ancient rains, Dawn and Night delight like two weavers at their work.
Irresistible bull, the quaking death-stroke, deep, noble, of incomparable poetic skill, driving the helpless ones, destroying, firm and broad — Indra, worshipped well, generated the dawns and the sun.
Wresting away the dawns with the sun, when praised, he clove asunder the ancient things of the rock.
Sāmaveda
The paired deities of Day/Dawn and Night, described as stirring up the banners of light and bringing the moving world to rest.
Night has become the auspicious one who brings to rest all the moving world.