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	CHAPTER IV
		If Dievas was the highest character in the pantheon, then Perkunas, Latvian Perkons, Prussian Perkuns, Perkztno, the god of storm and thunder, master of the atmosphere and all celestial matters, and evidently Dievas’ son, was the most important and prominent.
		Lithuanian ethnological legends recorded at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, are not myths in the true sense, although some of the things they contain do reflect ancient cosmogony.
		Dievas eventually remembers that he spat here on his way — thus, this creature sprang from his saliva, and this is man. Legends concerned about the origin of woman solve it in a rather simple way — according to them, Dievas spat twice, hence the first man and woman.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm (3937 words)

	Lithuanian Religion and Mythology
		Generally in the image of the God as Old man figure the old age is being hyperbolised to the verge of grotesque, yet this is quite understandable, because the first and the oldest god has to be old, because he is the oldest person in the whole world.
		Lithuanian devil of the folklore in the ethological legends creates the world in the company of the God, the devil himself is either created by the god or in the older tradition) is a God's younger brother.
		Dievas did not intend to create human being, he just spits, without any intention and in seeing a being appear is surprised himself and in some tales he addresses the new creature: "Who are you?", and, of course the answer is that it does not know.
	ausis.gf.vu.lt /eka/mythology/relmyth.html (6506 words)

	Viduramžių Lietuvos visuomenė
		Generally in the image of the God as Old man figure the old age is being hyperbolised to the verge of grotesque, yet this is quite understandable, because the first and the oldest god has to be old, because he is the oldest person in the whole world.
		Lithuanian devil of the folklore in the ethological legends creates the world in the company of the God, the devil himself is either created by the god or in the older tradition) is a God's younger brother.
		Dievas did not intend to create human being, he just spits, without any intention and in seeing a being appear is surprised himself and in some tales he addresses the new creature: "Who are you?", and, of course the answer is that it does not know.
	viduramziu.lietuvos.net /socium/pagonybe.htm (6506 words)

	Information about Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The chief gods appearead during this period, while most of the feminine deities lost their supremacy, though not all: some of them remained in the pantheon of Lithuanian gods together with masculine deities.
		Lithuanians, as well as other ancient nations, developed in the period of patriarchy an image of the unique supreme God, the creator and lord of the Universe and all life.
		God's twin children, in the shape of twin horses, are known from the myths; they are related to the fire of the sky, the Sun, and lighting.
	www.litnet.lt /litinfo/religion.html (2553 words)

	Baltic mythological images.
		Dievas it is submitted as the courageous person dressed in a silver cloak, a cap, his clothes are decorated with suspension brackets and a belt with a sword.
		Sons of the god embody fertility and contact an agricultural cult <...> Representation that and their most ancient attribute - horses are connected to twins both an opportunity of epidemic and healing from illness, till now meets in the Lithuanian villages.
		Besides Vertumn was the main god of this city (that is the main god of priests).
	greek-gods.tripod.com /Baltic.htm (3026 words)

	Baltic
		Standard Lithuanian, formed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, is based on the southern subdialect of West High Lithuanian.
		The mixing and levelling of the Lithuanian dialects started at the beginning of the 20th century owing to the influence of a standard language, and it was especially intensified after the creation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940.
		Lithuanian has retained the initial clusters pj and bj, which in Latvian (and similarly in Slavic) have passed to pl and bl—e.g., Lithuanian piáuti “to cut” (pi is pronounced as pj) = Latvian plaut; Lithuanian biaurùs “hideous, nasty” = Latvian blaurs.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05baltic (3519 words)

	Ancient Lithuanian Mythology and Religion
		The chief gods appearead during this period, while most of the feminine deities lost their supremacy, though not all: some of them remained in the pantheon of Lithuanian gods together with masculine deities.
		Lithuanians, as well as other ancient nations, developed in the period of patriarchy an image of the unique supreme God, the creator and lord of the Universe and all life.
		God's twin children, in the shape of twin horses, are known from the myths; they are related to the fire of the sky, the Sun, and lighting.
	covenantofrhiannon.org /lith.htm (2566 words)

	Lithuania - Litwa
		The chief gods appeared during this period, while most of the feminine deities lost their supremacy, though not all: some of them remained in the pantheon of Lithuanian gods together with masculine deities.
		The main sources of knowledge of the Lithuanian religion and mythology are the archaeological and ethnographic data, as well as various written sources, toponymy and other objects of linguistic study.
		By will of god Praamzius, she was killed by another god Perkunas, for a love affair with Kastytis, a son of the earth.
	kresy.co.uk /lithuania.html (3171 words)

	The Basics of Lithuanian Paganism
		Lithuanians are an unusual amalgam of pagan beliefs and catholic faith.
		Lithuanians began to call their renewed faith "Romuva," while the Latvians called theirs "Dievturiba" (meaning "The keeping of the god Dievs").
		That the Lithuanian Baltic Religion is the ancient indigenous native national religion of the Lithuanians.
	www.druidry.org /obod/deities/lithuanian_paganism.html (5844 words)

	Lithuania
		In the area there are many Lithuanians who have lived there for several generations —as in the case of many European countries, the borders have shifted over the centuries, and what was once Lithuanian territory is now Polish.
		Lithuanian mythological beliefs can be divided into four categories, gods, spirits and demons (low mythology), worship of nature, and the worship of the dead.
		The supreme god was called "Dievas", which quite literally means god, and comes from the same root as that for "Devi" which is Hindi for god as well, or Deus in Latin and so forth.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/3503/lecture.html (3408 words)

	The Web's No. 1 Lithuanian Tourist Guide
		The stereotype is that Lithuanians are an emotional, sometimes hot-headed people, at least compared to their neighbors to the north.
		Lithuanians were staunchly pagan until the 1300s, when they still worshiped the likes of Perkunas, god of thunder.
		Lithuanian is one of the world's oldest surviving languages, and is distantly related to Sanskrit, a religious and literary language in India.
	www.balticsww.com /tourist/lithuania (750 words)

	Symposium on Creation
		God may seem unrelated but is in fact related to the German Gott, and the Danish and Swedish Gud, etc. An apparently unrelated variation used in the Slavic languages is represented by the Russian Bog, Czech-Slovak Bogu, Serb-Croatian Bog, Avestan (India) Baga, etc.
		God is descended from northern India where Khu Da is used in the Brahui dialect in Baluchistan, the Musalmani dialect in Punjabi, and the Urdu of Hindustani.
		For instance, Dulha Deo is the bridegroom god of the Gonds; Nagar Deo is the custodian god of the cattle among the Garwal; Ghansyam Deo is the crop god of the Gonds; Sonal Deo is the name of the sun god among the Bhils of the Satpura Hills.
	www.creationism.org /symposium/symp5no1.htm (10438 words)

	The Web's No. 1 Lithuanian Tourist Guide
		The stereotype is that Lithuanians are an emotional, sometimes hot-headed people, at least compared to their neighbors to the north.
		Lithuanians were staunchly pagan until the 1300s, when they still worshiped the likes of Perkunas, god of thunder.
		Lithuanian is one of the world's oldest surviving languages, and is distantly related to Sanskrit, a religious and literary language in India.
	www.balticsworldwide.com /tourist/lithuania (750 words)

	The Historical Grammar of Lithuanian language by Cyril Babaev
		The Lithuanian language is included in the Baltic group of Indo-European languages and represents (together with existing Latvian, extinct Latgalian and Semigalian languages) the West Baltic subgroup.
		The Lithuanian noun shows mainly the declension both for nouns and adjectives; some innovations and borrowings from pronomenal declension are of a small number.
		The noun has 7 cases, 3 numbers (in classical Lithuanian, while in modern colloquial language the dual number is seldom used) and 2 genders, as neuter disappeared earlier in Baltic languages and was preserved just in some adjective forms.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/grammar/grammar11.html (2748 words)

	Global Lithuanian Net. Lithuanian Mythology and Religion Resources
		Conclusion is drawn that 4-5 thousand years ago the ancestors of the modern Baltic nations (Lithuanians and Latvians) had developed views on the relations between man and natural forces, on the origin of the world and its construction, based on religious and mythological notions.
		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...
		In ancient Lithuanian mythology, Perkunas was the God of Thunder.
	www.lithuanian.net /resource/myths.htm (2071 words)

	The Basis of the Old Lithuanian Religion
		Dievas, the God of the Heavens, is light, and his name is related to the Lithuanian word diena, `day'.
		Perkunas is the active principle of the heavens, the God of maleness, energy and heavenly fire.
		The belief in the Goddess sank during the formation of the Lithuanian State, and it was further denigrated with the onslaught of Christianity.
	vinland.org /heathen/pagancee/lithrel.html (741 words)

	Dyeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his aspect as a Father god, his consort was Pltvi Mh ter, "Earth mother".
		As the pantheons of the individual mythologies related to the Proto-Indo-European religion evolved, attributes of Dyeus were sometimes redistributed to other, newer gods.
		In Greek and Roman mythology, Dyeus remained the chief god, while in Vedic mythology, the etymological continuant of Dyeus became a very abstract god, and his original attributes, and his dominance over other gods, were transferred to gods whose names cannot be reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European times, such as Indra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dyeus (247 words)

	god - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs.
		In addition to the idioms beginning with god, also see act of god; for god's sake; honest to god; lap of the gods; mills of gods grind slowly; my god; put the fear of god in; so help me (god); thank god; there but for the grace of god; tin god.
		God's attributes are spoken of by some as absolute, i.e., such as belong to his essence as Jehovah, Jah, etc.; and relative, i.e., such as are ascribed to him with relation to his creatures.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/god (1056 words)

	Lithuanian Myths and Mythology
		Lithuanians gave reverence to nature, personifying it into several deities.
		Paramount to all was Dievas, who eventually became equated with the Christian god.
		Beneath him was Perkunas, the god of Thunder and Justice.
	www.lithuanianglobal.org /myths/myths.html (390 words)

	More on Lithuanian Paganism - DiscussAnything.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The rest of the history of Lithuania consists of internal struggles with the Polish nobility and the gradual extinction of the language and culture.
		The Russian Empire eventually annexed Lithuania, and it was in the 19th Century that there was an upsurge in demand for the Lithuanian language and culture.
		What is known about her can be found by 16th and 17th century chroniclers, but according to one academic (Jonas Balys), some of the reports are fabricated or misunderstood.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?p=892086 (2450 words)

	The Origin of the Lithuanian Language
		"Lithuanian is a very old language." This is a bit of mythology which is constantly repeated whenever the subject of the Lithuanian language arises.
		Thus Lithuanian retains the old dative singular ending in vilk-ui, whereas Latvian has innovated by borrowing a pronoun or adjectival ending in vilk-am '(to the) wolf.' Note the Lithuanian dative singular masculine demonstrative pronoun tam(ui) '(to) that' from the Latvian counterpart of which, tarn, the noun ending of Latvian vilk-am is derived.
		The view that Latvian and Lithuanian separated in the 7th century A.D. is defended by V. Urbutis, 1962.
	www.lituanus.org /1982_1/82_1_01.htm (5833 words)

	Dievas (Russian/Slavic Gods)
		POWERS/ABILITIES: The Russian Gods possibly have numerous traits in common with the Asgardians and Olympians such as superhuman strength (Class 25 and greater), stamina, vitality and resistance to injury.
		TRAITS: The Russian Gods appear to be entirely human in appearance but do seem to share several characteristics in common with the Asgardians such as horned helmets and the like.
		HISTORY: (Russian Myth/History) The Russian Gods are the descendants of the Earth-Deity Rod and Gaea in her role as Erce, the Russian Mother-Earth.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/rusgod.htm (603 words)

	God Friendship Poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Her country charm god friendship poem and homespun pieces set a festive scene for celebrating the gift of friends.
		The Green Eye of the Yellow God - The Green Eye of the Yellow God is a poem by J. Milton Hayes that is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue", which was popular in the early twentieth century.
		Dievas (Lithuanian god) - Dievas (sometimes PraamÅ¾ius or Okopirmas in folklore) is the god of the sky, lightness, peace and friendship in Lithuanian mythology.
	di5.360mkt.info /godfriendshippoem.html (1426 words)

	Slav mythology 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was popular and considered as the god of "all Russia" in counterbalance Perun - to the patron of a princely warriors.
		In ancient Russian sources Veles is the god of cattle and riches.
		Veles had shown Slav god of earth natural powers like Dionysus - Greek mythology; Shiva/Rudra - Indian mythology; Cernunnos - Celtic mythology; and especially Vels - Balt mythology.
	redrival.com /mythology/Slav8.htm (775 words)

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