Stars as Balto-Slavic deities

Not being provided with reliable references to the sources on the
Baltic and Slavic 'stars as deities' I have tracked the story down
myself and must admit my scepticism has shrunk to some extent.

Lithuanian *Vakari`ne. 'the deified evening Venus' is reconstructed
on a more solid basis than just a sky bodies' love story. In
Lithuanian folk tales Vakari`ne. makes the bed for her mother - the
Sun (Sa'ule.) and indeed often (along with her sister *Aus^ri`ne.
'the morning Venus') acts as a girl-friend of Me.nu`lis 'the Moon',
but what really points to its deification is the registered prayers
and even hymns to Vakari`ne. as a (hard) work's deity; it was prayed
and sung to at sunset, when the day's works were finished.

As for its Slavic counterparts, I still can't find any indications to
their Russian names, but Vec^ernica 'the evening Venus' is registered
in Serbo-Chroatian and Bulgarian being very close to the Lithuanian
word etymologically (< Slavic *vec^er-In-ika < *vec^erU 'evening' <
pre-Slavic *weker-). There are no indications to the worship of stars
in Russian folklore as such, but cf. an old bookish (looking a bit
black magicish) spell fragment (the author tries to imitate the
Russian variant of Church Slavonic, so it's not proper Russian):
<...vstaxomU zautra i pomolixse Gospodu Bogu i dInnice^...> '(we)
woke up in the morning and (I) prayed to the Lord and the morning
star'. Here dInnica would point to Slavic *dInInika 'the morning
Venus' (cf. Serbo-Croatian Danica 'the same') and looks like a
counterpart of Lithuanian Aus^ri`ne.

Sergei