Eos vs Usha

The goddess of dawn, sister of Helios and Selene, who rises each morning from the bed of her mortal consort Tithonus to bring light to gods and men. Homer's formula 'rosy-fingered Dawn' marks the start of countless days in the Iliad and Odyssey.

Eos was born to the Titans Hyperion and Theia with her siblings Helios and Selene. Each morning she rises from the streams of Ocean at the eastern edge of the world to announce the sun.

Eos is the dawn made divine. Hesiod names her with Helios and Selene as a child of Hyperion and Theia, and he also makes her mother of the winds and the stars by the Titan Astraeus. In Homer she is chiefly a time-marker: the formula of 'early-born, rosy-fingered Dawn' opens new days again and again in the *Iliad* and the *Odyssey*.

The Vedic goddess of dawn, praised in some twenty hymns of the Rigveda as a radiant young woman who drives away darkness, wakes every living creature, and returns each morning ever young while the generations of mortals pass away.

Usha is called the daughter of Dyaus (Heaven) and the sister of Ratri (Night), with whom she shares an unending path, the two alternating across the sky.

Usha is among the most celebrated goddesses of the Rigveda, which addresses about twenty hymns to her. She is the daughter of Heaven, sister of Night, and the brilliant maiden who unbars the doors of the sky. Her light rouses people to their work and to sacrifice: she causes Agni's fire to be kindled at the morning rite.