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Doubts[edit]

Anonymous: Without any references of any kind, I seriously have to put doubts to this article. Mara as a Goddess seems to have come from Barbara Walker's book The Woman's Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets, which reportedly is full of references to other books with ultimately do not support the claims that she makes. Somebody should look into this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.145.24.121 (talk • contribs) 13:36, 23 August 2012‎

Thanks. I looked at the Latvian wikipedia page (which is linked in the column at the left of the article), and Mara does seem to be reasonably well documented in Latvian folklore sources. I have tagged this English page for improvement using that one. – Fayenatic London 18:03, 23 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly, Latvian page is also complete sh!t. First of all - all the drawn signs got their names recently: less or around 100 years ago - so, they are only for ilustrations, what are attributed to this goddess today.

As for the goddess - use common sense and greek experience - when translated, their god names makes sense. Goddess name is Māra - it means the same in mirrored writing: Rāma. It translates as peace, calm. Miers -> mirt and mirrored version rimt - translates as calm in the sense of death, so logically she also has connection to underworld.

There is also male name - and more popular than female version: Māris. Rimantas(Rimas) in lithuanian might be mirrored version.2.125.40.208 (talk) 21:39, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Possible explanation[edit]

In Slavic mythology, of all Indo-European traditions Slavic are the most closely related to Baltic ones, the goddess Mother Earth is Mokosh. She is thunder god Peruns spouse and she is attributed with most of the attributes stated for Mara here. Perun and Mokosh have two (special) children (among others). Yarilo and Mara/Morana, twin siblings who every spring start the yearly cycle of fertility by their holy marriage in the grove at the bend of the river (lug). In Slavic oral literature sources there is a lot of mixing up generations, and I suspect that the same is the case here. Mara probably stands in for her Mother Mokosh here (Mokosh = Laime in Baltic sources) like Yarilo often does for his father Perun (Perkūnas in Latvian). Nonetheless, this article is worthless without references to scientific sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.114.156.74 (talk) 11:26, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]