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==Festivals== The festival [[Māras]] was held in her honor every August 15. This is probably a result of [[Christianity|Christian]] influence and identification of Māra with [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Mary]], whose main festival ([[Assumption of Mary|the Assumption]]) has fallen on the same date since early times. Opinions are divided over whether Māra is a pre-Christian deity,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liis.lv/folklora/mitol/origin/mara.htm |title=Latvian folklore: Māra |access-date=2012-11-23 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126063800/http://www.liis.lv/folklora/mitol/origin/mara.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2009 }} {{in lang|lv}}</ref> or originated as a reflection of the Christian Mary created by semi-Christian Livonian peasants.
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