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Zorya or Zara or Zoryushka is a feminine manifestation of Dawn, most probably as a Goddess, in Slavic folk-stories. Traditionally she may differ either as a single individual namely the -The Red Maiden- or a Collection of two or three sisters simultaneously. As a Celestial entity she is associated as the Sister of Sun and the Moon and also identified with Morning Star. Her duty is to open the Royal Gates of the Palace of the Sun, where she lives, so that Sun could go out in His Journey across the Celestial sky. She also has the duty to protect His Horses. Though etymologically the word Zorya is not related to the PIE term for dawn i.e. Haéusōs, her features all relate with Her. The basic similarities of the Zoryas of Slavic folklore and Rig-Vedic, Indo-Aryan - Usha and Partyusha, the Dawns accompanying the Sun, is striking. There are similar motif depiction found in both so-distant cultures where Two women, with one holding torch to light the path of the Sun and other expecting it to return at Sunset, is very surprisingly depicted similarly. While one is depicted at Chludov Psalter at Novgorod, from late 13th C.E., the other is found at Cave Temple at Nashik in India. The Zoryas are believed to live in the mysterious, sacred Island Buyan and to practitioners of Zavogory in East Slavic heritage she is the highest entity to whom the practitioners appeals to. In Russian there is a further saying that -- The sun will not rise without the Morning Zoryushka. The Indo-Aryan Rigveda or the Norse Edda, as well as in folklores all depict the Sun in the form of a wheel. According to medieval authors the sun was symbolized by a wheel that was lit during the yearly festivities of the Germanic peoples and Slavs. She appears as Zaranitsa in Belarusian folklore. The Morning Zora, Midday Zora, and Evening Zora are the three sister Zoras found in Polish tradition and also function as Rozhanitsy. Charms against illness also invoke the Goddess Zaria, or alternatively, a trio of deities called Zori, according to Slavic tradition. Scholars claim that the luminous deities Ausrine and Vakarine play a similar dual role in Lithuanian folklore. As the solar goddess Saulė got ready for another journey of the day, the Morning Star Aušrinė light the fire for her, and the Evening Star Vakarine would ready her bed. According to some accounts, Ausrine and Vakarine look after the palace and horses of their mother. They are the daughters of the male Moon, or Meness, and the female Sun, or Saule. According to Ukrainian tradition, Zorya also patronized weddings between the gods and marriages, as evidenced by her frequent arranged in wedding songs. She is directly given this role in one of the traditional songs, when the Moon meets Aurora as she wanders the sky.

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