Waking Light Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mesopotamians

Aya is the Mesopotamian goddess of the dawn. She is also the wife of their Sun God, Shamash. She is a happy goddess and usually depicted as smiling and she shows that each day is going to be good.

Answer: Astarte

Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Middle Eastern Goddess Ishtar, who was worshipped from the Bronze Age clear through to classical antiquity. She was celebrated by the Phoenicians, the Canaanites, and by some Egyptians. She was the epitome of rebirth, hope, and fertility.

Answer: Germanic

Ostara is a Germanic Goddess who heralded both dawn and the spring season. She was a maiden Goddess who was full of potential, and she showed the opportunity for growth after the darkness of night or the coldness of winter. Her name is said to mean 'east', 'dawn', and 'morning light'.

Answer: False

This is false. The Zorya are three Slavic sky and light goddesses, honored particularly in Russia. There are usually three of them. They all have the same job: to guard a chained dog who is trying to eat the constellation Ursa Minor. The Zorya are guardian goddesses of the night skies, not of the dawn.

Answer: Eos

Eos was the Greek Goddess of the dawn. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia. In most works of art that are still extant, she appears as a winged goddess or sometimes in a chariot drawn by four horses.

Answer: Heket

Heket was a frog-headed Goddess of the Dawn in Ancient Egypt. She was thought to be the wife of Khnum and possibly the second wife of Shu. She was a Goddess of fertility, dawn, and childbirth.

Answer: Aurora

Aurora is the Roman Goddess of the Dawn. She is the sister of Luna, the Moon Goddess, and Sol the God of the Sun. Her name means daybreak or sunrise. She is the personification of the first light of day. Her energy therefore represents renewal and hope.

Answer: Buddhism

The Buddhist Goddess Marichi appears in many different forms. As the Goddess of the Dawn she is often portrayed riding in a chariot of the sun, being pulled by seven pigs. She removes obstacles with her radiant light. She is the Goddess of fertility, childbirth, and dawn.

Answer: Celtic

Brigid is the Celtic Goddess of healing, divination, prophecy, and dawn. She is also the Goddess of poetry, fertility, and smith craft. She is considered wise, fertile, and a lover of nature. She is also associated with water, wells, poets, and thought to be the midwife of St. Mary.

Answer: Ushas

Ushas is the Vedic Goddess of the Dawn. Each morning, this beautiful maiden appears, riding in a chariot pulled by cows. The sun, struck by her beauty, chases her across the sky. As she passes, Ushas drives off the dark and creatures of the night. She does this every morning, tirelessly bringing light and life to mankind.