DEWING USCHINGE

[Latvian] The Latvian god of horses. One of the deities called by name by Joannis Stribingius in his account of travel to forgotten lands of eastern Latvia. A somewhat corrupted form of better known Usins. Stribingius describes him as a god of horses exclusively, while there have been attempts to explain Usins as a deity of bees or light (e.g., Biezais, Haralds. Lichtgott der alten Letten. Uppsala, 1976).