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		In Finnish mythology, Akka was the consort of Ukko.
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		In Finnish mythology, Tuonetar was the consort of Tuoni.
	webpages.charter.net /sn9/religion/myth/otherencyclopaedia.html (10254 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mythology
		Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system.
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/mythology (4886 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Other Mythology (D-F) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Balinese and Javanese mythology, Durga is the goddess of death and disease.
		In Tehaelche mythology, Ellal was a benefactor of mankind.
		In the mythology of the Democratic Republic of The Congo, the Eloko are dwarves who live in the densest and darkest parts of the forest guarding their treasure, which is the fruits and animals of the forest.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /D0A.HTM (1312 words)

	CHAPTER IV
		CHAPTER IV Lithuanian mythology underwent its formation at the time when the active and belligerent tribes who were the ancestors of modern Lithuanians were distinguishing themselves from the bulk of the Baltic protonation, circa 500 AD.
		The highest figure in the Baltic pantheon is Dievas, in Prussian Deywis or Deyws, and in Latvian Dievs.
		In Baltic mythology Perkunas is linked both to a mountain — in Lithuanian mythology Perkunas lives on the top of a hill reaching the sky — and to oaks, growing in sacral places, or to sacred oak woods.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm (3937 words)

	THE WORLD OUTLOOK OF THE ANCIENT BALTS: Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The mythology of the Eastern Balts with the earliest established evidence in the Russian Chronicle of Volyn and the 13th century Chronicle of Jan Malala;
		The mythology of the Western Balts corresponds to the left members of the oppositions, that of the Eastern Balts to the right members of the oppositions, while the mythology of the Central Balts corresponds to the intermediate stages.
		The three areas of traditional Baltic world outlook, spread along a west-east axis on the territory inhabited by the Balts, exhibit with great regularity the polar members of the oppositions and reflect, as it were, three vertical spheres of the model of the world.
	ausis.gf.vu.lt /eka/mythology/sbp.html (2401 words)

	Global Lithuanian Net. COSMOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT BALTS
		The oldest Baltic cosmological schemes, calendars, found on the burial urns dated 600-200 B.C., are in custody of the Gdansk archaeological museum in Poland [33].
		The mythology of the ancient Balts and the pantheon of their gods are important coomparative sources for better understanding other pantheistic Indo-European religions ([39], vol.
		Other high Baltic gods should be mentioned: the great mother Žemyna (or in Latvian Zemes Mate), the goddess of the earth and fertility; Patrimpas, the god of spring and fertility, the guardian of rivers and springs; Autrimpas and Andojas, the sea gods; and Pykuolis and Velinas, the underground gods.
	www.lithuanian.net /mitai/cosmos/baltai5.htm (2995 words)

	Lithuanian Religion and Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lithuanian religion belongs to the Baltic religions and through many links is related to Prussian and Lettish ones and, along with the old religions of the Northern and Central Europe (Slavs, Germans and Celts), reflects the realias of Indo-European religions.
		The period of the official religion worshipped by the knighthood and the warriors; religion is strongly influenced by the "military mythology".
		The main mythological counterpoints appear in mythology through ethological legends, most of which still carry mythological connotation, but are met not in the religious but in the ideological context.
	ausis.gf.vu.lt /eka/mythology/relmyth.html (6506 words)

	Learn more about Sky Father in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Anglo-Saxon mythology, the god Tiwaz was venerated as the Sky Father.
		In Maori mythology, Rangi was the Sky Father.
		The sky goddess whose name is reconstructed as aus-os- is even more widespread; goddess of dawn, she appears in Greek mythology* as Eos, in Rome as Aurora, in Germanic mythology as Eostre, in Baltic mythology as Ausra, and in Hinduism as Ushas.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sk/sky_father.html (806 words)

	1.1. Barbarous Europe, and it cultural worlds.
		But at a level of folklore and a folk art vestiges of mythology were strongly kept up to 19 - the beginnings of 20 centuries.
		However, at significant similarity of situations in the field of preservation Celt and the Scandinavian mythologies, a parity iconography and a textual material in both traditions unequally.
		Studying of this material allows to draw a conclusion, that characteristic feature pagan (and appreciably and post pagan) ideologies central and East-European peoples, at all variants, is reverence in quality of very important religious object of the horseman on a white horse, "king of past and future", messiah.
	greek-gods.tripod.com /myth1.htm (3202 words)

	Baltic mythological images.
		Speaking about deities with a root 'vel' it is necessary to touch and the whole class of the mythological essences, personifying spirits died, as a rule, a feminine gender.
		Unlike others East - and Central mythologies Baltic mythology it is rather poor in the images of the Cultural Hero.
		In the Indian mythology there is such image as the Yama - the king of ancestors.
	greek-gods.tripod.com /Baltic.htm (3026 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		In Hittite mythology the stone monster Ullikummi, who fights the weather god Te%ub, is a son of the major god Kumarbi and a rock, a goddess called Peruna% or Piruna%.
		In Baltic mythology, there is a deity known as Vélinas, Velnias or Véls, very well attested in folklore and toponymy, hence indicating the importance of this god in Baltic beliefs.
		Their mythology was often as inconsistent as in the case of the Slavs.
	www.ibiblio.org /sergei/Zaroff (12336 words)

	Lithuanian Mythology articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to Marija Gimbutas, the initial structure of Lithuanian mythology was based on a matriarchal system of goddesses representing various pieces of the natural world, e.g., earth, sky, moon, water, air, etc. Later developments took on a patriarchal format, many of the female goddesses losing their power and significance.
		Lithuanian mythology is perhaps closest to Latvian mythology, and according to the prevalent point of view, Lithuanians shared the same myths and basic features of their religion with the Old Prussians.
		The last period of Lithuanian mythology began in the 19th century, when the importance of the old cultural heritage was admitted, not only by the upper classes, but by the nation more widely.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Lithuanian%20mythology.htm (1448 words)

	Sky Father - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Sky Father is a recurring theme in pagan and neo-pagan mythology.
		As a concept, it is the complement of the Earth Mother and appears in some creation myths, many of which are European or ancient Near Eastern.
		Other cultures have quite different myths; Egyptian mythology features a sky mother and an earthly dying and reviving god of vegetation.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Sky_Father (710 words)

	Encyclopedia: Latvian mythology
		Latvian mythology as being Baltic mythology is very close to Lithuanian mythology
		Latvian mythology is based primarily off collections of folklore and song texts.
		In AD 98, Tacitus, a Roman, mentioned the worship of God's Mother, goddess in the old Baltic mythology.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Latvian-mythology (225 words)

	Category:Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and which feature a specific religious or belief system.
		For more information, see the article about Mythology.
		This page was last modified 14:59, 13 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Mythology (60 words)

	Elements of Old Prussian Mythology in Gunter Grass' DOG YEARS - Rimvydas Sliazas
		It should be interesting to examine the depth of Grass' knowledge of Baltic mythology and the use he makes of it in his novel.
		The characteristics of Pikollos are also rooted in Old Prussian mythology, where "Pecols" or "Pickuls"15 was the god of death and the subterranean realm.
		In Baltic mythology Potrimpos was the god of the sea,17 or of the rivers and.
	www.lituanus.org /1973/73_1_05.htm (2554 words)

	Global Lithuanian Net. Lithuanian Mythology and Religion Resources
		The Baltic traditions took shape in a vast territory, encompassing the southeastern shores of the Baltic sea and huge forest, lake and river areas, which today are divided into Baltic and Slavic lands.
		The Baltic words Latvian dievs, Lithuanian dievas, and Old Prussian deivas are etymologically related to the Indo-European deiuos; among others, the Greek Zeus is derived from the same root...
		Zaltys is known as the sentinel or messenger of the ancient Baltic deities and plays a significant role in the mythology and lore of the region.
	www.lithuanian.net /resource/myths.htm (2071 words)

	Latvian DAINAS - Ancient Baltic Folksongs - Ancient Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hence, the culture and traditions of the Baltic peoples take on a greater importance for those who wish to study the origins of the cultures of the British Isles and of Western Civilization.
		Comparables to the Dainas outside the Baltic are perhaps only found in ancient Mesopotamia in the most ancient Sumerian and Akkadian pantheon.
		Most of these translations and interpretations are new and suggest a more modern understanding of the ancient mythology, astronomy and culture of the Baltic peoples, who, according to the recently published History of the Baltic Countries (a book subsidized by the European Union) trace their origins back to the Magdalenians, the cave painters of Lascaux...
	www.dainas.com (1268 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames
		Mythology Notes present descriptions of gods, summaries of myths, and some historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts.
		Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon of the people refered to as Canaanites in the Bible, as recovered from the city of Ugarit in what is now western Syria.
		Hittite Mythology REF This page contains a description of the pantheon, and history of the Hittites, who drew heavily upon the pantheon of their neighbors the Hurrians.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	EUROPE: Central & Eastern Europe / The Baltic States
		What were these stories and how were they told?....The amount of data to be processed for all of Europe is far too large to be handled by an individual scholar, whereas the study of a small region might be too specific to reach conclusions valid for research in general.
		From analogy with other mythologies, we can suppose that the men of Nemunas and Narva cultures considered the Goddess-elk or Goddess-deer to have specific power, such as life-, fertility- and birth-giving.
		It covers: Religion and mythology of the ancestors of the Baltic nations; The concept of the World-Tree; and Astronomical symbolism in folk painting.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~east~baltics.html (1644 words)

	Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The fundamental prejudice of such scholarship involves the belief that Baltic religion had reached its zenith, and was waiting for the next stage of its development--Christianity.
		Most of the underlying research of Baltic mythology occurred in a folklore context.
		Folklore studies tend to interpret myth from a 20th-Century synchronic perspective, i.e., myth in its collected and recorded form, regardless of discrepancies and inconsistencies.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/2810/under.html (356 words)

	Mythology in Art and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		More often she of the spouse of the God of Thunder and the God of Earth Powers, in a number of traditions the goddess consists in marriage relations good luck the Clear Sky.
		And more and more late female characters of mythologies of Barbarous Europe (and the Indo-European mythologies as a whole) are derivatives from an image of the Great Goddess.
		Mythologies of peoples of Northern Europe - education program.
	ccc.domaindlx.com /myths (599 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames
		Brandon's Mythology is an overview of Greek mythology.
		Mythology 101 From the people who bring you "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".
		African Mythology which draws from sources scattered about the continent.
	www.myths.com /pub/myths/myth.html (12212 words)

	INDO-EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGIES: FREE TEXTS AND PICTURES ON-LINE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Certainly, influence of astrology (as names of gods connected with heavenly bodies) and the Bible (the name "Saturday" this to the sixth day of week here has had an effect.
		Nevertheless, presence of names main Indo-European mythologies characters, that are in agreement with the basic types of gods allocated in this work is indicative.
		Tuesday is connected to Mars who though had military function, as the God of the Clear Sky, in genesis was the God of Earthly Forces.
	www.redrival.com /mythology (1074 words)

	Latvian mythology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea) Latvian (Myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person) mythology is based primarily off collections of folklore and song texts.
		Latvian mythology, as a type of (A branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European) Baltic mythology, is very close to (Click link for more info and facts about Lithuanian mythology) Lithuanian mythology.
		Latvian mythology has broad cult of (Click link for more info and facts about Mahtes) Mahtes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/Latvian_mythology.htm (1506 words)

	Magia D' La Luna
		Saule is the beloved Baltic Sun Goddess, about whom thousands of dainas (folksongs) were sung.
		The Golden Apples of the Sun are known not only in Baltic mythology, but in Greek tales of the Garden of the Hesperides and in Nordic and Celtic stories as well.
		In Lakota Sioux mythology Skan is a god embodying the sky.
	www.magialuna.net /gods.html (751 words)

	The Centre for Latvian Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Centre is a research and teaching instituton whose goals are to encourage relations among Lithuanian and Latvian researchers in Baltic studies, to collect and study Latvian material and to prepare specialists in Latvian studies.
		The Centre is part of Vytautas Magnus University’s Faculty of Humanities and operates according to the statutes of the university and its internal rules.
		To bring together scholars, students and patrons for Latvian studies; to encourage the writing of Bachelor and Masters theses in which questions of importance to the study of Latvian and Lithuanian, as well as to the study of Latvian and Lithuanian literature, folklore and history, would be analysed.
	www.vdu.lt /Humanities/Hum_latvija_an.html (254 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The BALTIC INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL will this year take place for the 5th time from JULY 4 - JULY 26 at Vidzeme University College in Northern Latvia.
		Full information on the Baltic International Summer School including Scholarship information can be seen on the internet:
		Booklets on the Baltic International Summer School can be ordered from:
	www.di.unipi.it /didattica/erasmus/baltico.html (89 words)

	Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Co-Chair of the International Symposium for Baltic Linguistics, Vilnius, September, 1985.
		Editor-in-Chief, Baltic and Slavic Studies, Moscow, 1980 to present.
		Slaviankskii, baltiiskii i rannebalkanskii glagol indoevropeiskie istoki (Indoeuropean Origins of the Slavonic, Baltic and Early Balkan Verb).
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/slavic/faculty/ivanov/ivanovpage.html (2689 words)

	Monograhp Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Erika Sausverde: "Seewörter" and Substratum in Germanic, Baltic and Baltic Finno-Ugric Languages;
		Norbertas Velius: Marija Gimbutas, the Investigator of Baltic Mythology;
		Romualdas Apanavichius: Ancient Baltic According to Ethnomusicological Data.
	www.utexas.edu /cola/depts/lrc/jies/monographs/mono17.html (282 words)

	»»european Reviews««
		The book seems only worth buying for those who have a keen interest in the analysis of Baltic mythology, or would be interested in doing research to fill in or refute the gaps in many of the articles.
		Even though these books will "waste" time on non-P.I.E. myths, it is useful to be aware what is wide-spread, and not unique to north European, Classical, and Indo-Iranian myths and cultic practices.
		The study of P.I.E. mythology is still hazy; perhaps it is only ready for an encyclopedia entry, and not yet a whole book.
	www.financial-book-review.com /european/european_457.html (1785 words)

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