Zorya

Zorya, whose name means 'dawn', is the feminine personification of the dawn in Slavic folklore and is possibly a goddess. Depending on the tradition she appears as one figure or as two or three sisters. She is often called the sister of the Sun, the Moon and Danica, the Morning Star, with whom she is sometimes identified. She lives in the Palace of the Sun, opens its gate each morning so the Sun can set out across the sky, and looks after his white horses. In the East Slavic charms known as zagovory she is the highest power a practitioner appeals to. She shares most traits of the reconstructed Indo-European dawn goddess, although her name is not related to it, and while she is popular in modern Slavic paganism she is not attested in the historical record, only in folklore.