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Baltic mythology is the body of mythology of the Baltic ... (Latvian 'sons of god') ... Associated with the brothers and their father are two goddesses; the ...
Bangpūtys, the god of the seas and storms ––he is two-faced like the Roman god Janus. Dalia, goddess of fate and weaving. Deivės Valdytojos (Lithuanian: Governing Goddesses), were the goddesses who made garments from human's lives. They were seven sisters: Verpiančioji (who spun the threads of life), Metančioji (who threw rims of life ...
It is a first recorded Baltic myth, also the first placed among myths of other nations – Greek, Roman and others. The Tale of Sovij describes the establishing of cremation custom which was common among Lithuanians and other Baltic nations. The names of the Baltic gods lt:Andajus, Perkūnas, lt:Žvorūna, and a smith-god lt:Teliavelis are ...
Besides the assumption that deities of other Baltic peoples must be Latvian as well but were simply lost over time, many new deities were modeled after Greek and Roman deities. [1] An example of the trend is the epic poem Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs, which features a pantheon of Latvian and Prussian gods and some the author has invented ...
Radegast is a god mentioned by Adam of Bremen, and the information is repeated by Helmold. He was to occupy the first place among the gods worshipped at Rethra. Earlier sources state that the main god of Rethra was Svarozhits, thus Radegast is considered to be a epithet of Svarozhits or a local variant of his cult. A white horse was dedicated ...
Pages in category "Baltic gods" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures; M. Māra; P. Peckols;
Baltic goddesses (3 C, 3 P) Baltic ... Baltic gods (3 C, 14 P) L. Latvian deities (2 C) Lithuanian deities (2 C, 5 P) This page was last edited on 8 September 2023 ...
Baltic Finnic pagans were polytheistic, believing in a number of different deities.Most of the deities ruled over a specific aspect of nature; for instance, Ukko was the god of the sky and thunder (ukkonen and ukonilma ["Ukko's air"] are still used in modern Finnish as terms for thunderstorms).