This is the Latvian word for ‘mother’ and it forms part of the names of several deities. There are ‘sea-mother’ (→ Jūras māte) and ‘fire-mother’ (Uguns māte), ‘berry-mother’ (Ogu...

In Latvian mythology, Māte ("mother"), sometimes written in English as Mahte, was an epithet applied to some sixty-seventy goddesses. They were clearly distinct goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of...