Editing Māra (section)

==Description==
She is the patroness of all feminine duties (children, cattle), patroness of all the economic activities ("God made the table, Māra made the bread"), even money and markets. Being the alternate side of Dievs, she takes a person's body after their death while Dievs is taking the soul. She is the goddess of the land, which is called ''Māras zeme'' ('Māra's land'). She is called 'Mother of Cows' (''Govu māte''), the same way the [[Vedas|Vedic]] Dawn-goddess is called ''gávām mātár-'' 'id'.

In western [[Latvia]], and to a lesser degree in the rest of Latvia, she was strongly associated with [[Laima]], and may have been considered the same [[deity]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}