Editing Mahte (section)

=== List of ''Mahte'' ===
Following are some of the ''Mate'' characters:<ref>{{cite book |last=Mottz |first=Lotte |title=The Faces of the Goddess |location=New York & Oxford |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |date=1997 |pages=221-222 (footnote nr. 27) |isbn=0-19-508967-7}}</ref>

#Bangu māte - Mother of Waves
#Ceļa māte - Mother of Roads
#Dārza māte - Mother of Gardens
#Dēkla māte
#Gausu māte
#Jūras māte - considered a goddess of the sea (from ''Jura'' 'sea')<ref>Lurker, Manfred. ''The Routledge Dictionary Of Gods Goddesses Devils And Demons''. Routledge. 2004. p. 96. {{ISBN|978-04-15340-18-2}}</ref>
#Kapu māte - 'Mother of Graves'
#Kārta māte
#Krūmu māte - Mother of Bushes
#Lapu māte - Mother of Leaves
#Lauka māte or Lauku māte - Mother of Fields
#Lazdu māte - Mother of the Hazelbush
#Lietus māte - Mother Rain
#Linu māte - Mother Flax
#Lopu māte - Mother of Livestock (Cattle)
#Mieža māte - Mother of Barley
#Meža māte - Mother of the Forest
#Miglas māte - Mother of Fog
#Pirts māte - Mother of the Bathhouse
#Rijas māte - Mother of the Threshing Place
#Sēņu māte - Mother of Mushrooms
#Smilšu māte - Mother of Sands{{efn|In Latvian folksongs there are references of a "hill of white sand" (Latv ''Balta smilksu kalnina'') or to "a sandhill" (Latv ''smiltaja'') as the destination of the deceased in this world before they depart to "The Other Sun" (the afterlife).<ref>Vaira Vīķis-Freibergs (1980). "A structural analysis of lexical and contextual semantics-Latvian Balts ‘white’ in sun-songs". In: ''Journal of Baltic Studies'', 11:3, pp. 226. {{doi|10.1080/01629778000000241}}</ref>}}{{efn|In another ''daina'', the deceased asks to be brought to the sand ("Vediet mani smiltainē") and that he will remain in his grave, by the white sand ("Es palikšu kapsētāi,/ Baltas smiltis rušināt").<ref>''Vija: Dziesmu Krajums''. Sakopojis Ed. Alainis. Trešais izdevāms. Riga: "Laikmets" Izdevums. 1935. p. 175.</ref>}}
#Sniega māte - Mother of Snow
#Tirgus māte - Mother of Markets
#Ūdens māte - Mother of Waters
#Uguns mate - Mother of Fire
#Upes māte - Mother of Rivers
#Vēja māte - 'Mother of Winds'
#Veļu māte or Vélių motę - mother of the souls/spirits<ref>Laurinkienė, Nijolė. "Požemio ir mirusiųjų karalystės deivė" [Goddesses of the Kingdom of the Dead and the Underworld]. In: ''Metai'' n. 1 2010. p. 121.</ref>
#Zemes māte - Earth Mother ([[Māra]])
#Ziedu māte - Mother of Flowers