Lada
라다
SlavicSlavic Antiquity
"Goddess of Love, Beauty, and Spring"
✦ Personality Traits
✦ About
Lada is the Slavic goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and spring. She represents the life-giving warmth that returns after Morana's winter, the renewal of love and passion that comes with the flowering season.
Young couples would pray to Lada for happy marriages and blessed unions. Songs invoking her name were sung at weddings and spring festivals, calling for her blessings of love, harmony, and fertility. She was the joy of spring personified.
Some scholars identify Lada with the wider Indo-European goddess of love and beauty. Whether historical or reconstructed, she embodies the Slavic celebration of love, youth, and the eternal return of spring's warmth and growth.
✦ Famous Story
At spring festivals, young women would dance and sing songs to Lada, asking for love and happy marriages. The goddess was believed to bless those who honored her with the gift of finding their true love.
✦ If You Match
You radiate the spring beauty of Lada. There is a loving, joyful quality to your presence—the look of one who brings warmth and renewal wherever they go.
