Beaivi

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Beaivi (other spellings Beiwe, Bievve, Beivve or Biejje, Inari Sami: Piäiváž) is the Sami Sun-deity; the name of the deity is the same as the name of the Sun. In Southern Sápmi, the Sun deity is female, but male for Skolts and in Kola Peninsula. In Sápmi, north of the Polar circle, where the sun does not even reach the horizon in winter, the sun was widely venerated and played a major role in the cultic coherence. Beaivi is a god of the sun, spring, and sanity, associated with the fertility of plants and animals, particularly reindeer. She made the plants grow so that the reindeer flourished and reproduced, and brought wealth and prosperity to the humans. According to Samuel Rheen, Beaivi was considered the mother of all living things.