Laima (also Laime, Laimas māte in Latvian) was the personification of fate and of luck in Latvian and Lithuanian mythology. She was associated with childbirth, marriage, death, proliferation, and domesticity; she was also the patron of pregnant women. Laima may be related to the Hindu goddess of luck and wealth Laxmi mata. In Latvian mythology, Laima and her sisters, Kārta and Dēkla, were a trinity of fate deities, part of a widespread European and Aegean conception of Destiny i… (More on Laima)