| Laima
Lithuanian
Laima is a goddess of good fortune, fate, and life passages. She works with her sisters Dievs (the sky) and Saulas (the sun) to plan the life histories of mortals. Her devotees (if, indeed, any remain) look to her for aid in pregnancy, childbirth, marriage arrangements, weddings, death, and funerals. She appears when a child is born to pronounce its destiny, Her involvement is always sympathetic: she is a goddess of death only because death is the final stage of life. She leaves murder to Giltine.
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