Baltic Mythology
Baltic Mythology: The Complete Guide to Perkūnas, Saulė, Dievas, and the Gods of Lithuania and Latvia
Perkūnas, Saulė, and Dievas
The last pagans of Europe: the Lithuanians and Latvians who kept their old gods into the 1400s. Perkūnas the thunderer, Saulė the sun, the sky-god Dievas, and a forest religion preserved in tens of thousands of folk songs.
$14.99
Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the dainas and chronicles
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The Last Pagans of Europe
- 02Dievas and the Bright Sky
- 03Perkūnas, the Thunderer
- 04Saulė the Sun and Mėnuo the Moon
- 05The Celestial Wedding and the Sky Family
- 06Žemyna and the Sacred Earth
- 07Laima and the Spinning of Fate
- 08Velnias and the Lord of the Dead
- 09The Sacred Groves, Fires, and Serpents
- 10The Dainas: A Religion in Song
- 11The Conversion and the Baltic Revival (Romuva)
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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