Paivatar

Description: She was called “competent maid” or “resplendent of the shaft-bow of
the sky”. The spinning sun virgin who wove daylight from a rainbow arch. In one myth,
Paivatar is the sun and her son is the moon. They are captured by Louhi, the Maid of the
Northland, and are rescued by Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen. I wonder if Paivatar and Paiva
are really the same, since the names are similar and both are sun deities. Paivatar may be
associated with the South when calling quarters.