I am nota professional linguist, but I will pitch in my two cents.
Regarding Lithuanian "Vakarine" - it is attested as a personified
being. Perhaps not attested in medieval sources as a major diety
worshipped, but is known in folklore. The motif of the evening Venus
having and affair with the moon, and lamenting her own leaving back
to her mother Sun the next day is rendered in a folk song that begins
with "Vakarine zvaigzdele". I am affraid I do not have the
appropriate literature by me at the moment, so I cannot refer to the
exact source, but the song is authentic and has event made it through
to pop culture. Veronika Povilioniene, a folk singer did a project
with the ZAS rap group to produce a modernistic rendition of the
song. I am certain this is not the only moention of Vakarine in
folklore. This is an artefact of the old polytheistic tradition in
our folk culture (and we have _hundreds_ of such as well)
I hope this clears some things up,
Martin
--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> Vakari`ne. 'of the evening' is a derivation from
va~karas 'evening',
> but I am not aware of such a goddess and doubt it ever existed.
Looks
> like an artefact of a 19th c. romantic writer (we have _hundreds_
of
> such artefacts).