The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
Latvian goddess of fate and good fortune, who also takes a sympathetic interest in women in childbirth.
She is the creator of men, and takes a hand in their birth, their marriages and their deaths. No household can hope for things to go well unless Laima is resident there. In Lithuania, we find, apart from Laima, a trinity of Laimos three sisters who correspond to the Fates (conceived as women) of other IndoGermanic peoples (→ Moirai, → Norns).
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