[[dawn]] | [[sexuality]] *** > Dawn has lovers, both mortal and immortal. > - If mortal, she is said to "visit" them or "carry them off". - On Tragedy of dawn's love: "If there is no Indian Tithonos, growing ever older in the house of his perpetually young consort, there is at least an awareness of the tragic contrast between her and us. ‘Bringing old age, thou hast come, O unageing Dawn . . . Unageing, thou dost make to age all else’ ([[ts4.3.11.5]]; cf. [[rv1.124.2]]). |||| |-|-|-|-| Greek | [[eos]] | [[iliad11_1-2]]<br>[[odyssey5_1-2]]<br>[[homeric-hymn-to-aphrodite218-38]]|"...Eos is a predatory goddess, falling in love with the handsomest young men such as Tithonos, Kleitos, Kephalos, and carrying them off."==[[west2007]]:224-5== Indic | [[ushas]] | [[rv7.9.1]] | "...Usas [is] a beautiful and uninhibited young woman who smiles alluringly and is happy to display her bodily charms. The Sun, who is always tagging along after her, is sometimes represented as her lover."==[[west2007]]:224-5== Indic | [[ushas]] | Usas is not associated with a specific mortal lover. But there seems to be a suggestion that she might be tarrying with one in [[rv1.30.20]]: ## Biblio [[west2007]]:224-5 [[kretschmer1896]]:83n1