Today we use the word crossroads metaphorically to indicate a critical point in a person’s life where significant decisions need to be made. In the past, actual crossroads were considered liminal spaces where the physical world met with the supernatural.
In Latvia, the morning star was named Auseklis. In Baltic textiles, he, like the Lithuanian Aušrinė, was also symbolized by an eight-pointed star.
Venus, is it a morning star or an evening star? What role did Aušrinė, the morning star, play in Lithuanian mythology? Read here to find out more.
