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| | CHAPTER IV |
 | | This god is of Indo-European origin, and his name, as in some religions of the Near East, has been expanded to embrace all gods (God — the name of the highest of gods, god — the name applied to all gods). | | | The gods in Lithuanian religions are not very distant from this world. | | | Jonas Lasickis’s notes on Samogitian gods in the middle of the 16th century, presented a great multitude of names of gods, goddesses and demons, which were very often unheard of either in other sources or in folklore. |
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http://www.crvp.org/book/Series04/IVA-17/chapter_iv.htm
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| | Lithuania - Litwa |
| | In Lithuanian religion, just as it is the case with other religions, the trinity of gods is known: Perkunas, Patrimpas and Pikuolis. | | | 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. | | | Lithuanians fougth bravely for their state and religion. |
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http://www.kresy.co.uk/lithuania.html
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| | Lithuanian Religion and Mythology |
| | 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. | | | Lithuanian God of the sky and Perkûnas must be two split parts of the same archaic god (L.Von Schroederr, J.Balys). | | | In some ways Lithuanian god Old-man reminds Indian god Avatar or sometimes Greek God Zeus also prone to appear incognito, it may appear that this kenosis of gods is generally a feature known to all Indo-European tradition. |
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http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/mythology/relmyth.html
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| | The Basics of Lithuanian Paganism |
| | Lithuanians are an unusual amalgam of pagan beliefs and catholic faith. | | | That the Lithuanian Baltic Religion is the ancient indigenous native national religion of the Lithuanians. | | | Lithuanian mythological beliefs can be divided into four categories, gods, spirits and demons (low mythology), worship of nature, and the worship of the dead. |
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http://www.druidry.org/obod/deities/lithuanian_paganism.html
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| | Romuva: the name |
| | Lithuanian Baltic Religion is the ancient indigenous native national ethnic religion of the Lithuanians. | | | Lithuanian Baltic Religion is firmly and deeply rooted in the personal experience of the Lithuanian way-of-life, world-concept and world-view as manifest in Lithuanian ethnic culture. | | | Velnias is both the promiscuous trickster God as well as the God of the dead. |
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http://www.wcer.org/members/europe/Lithuania/religion.htm
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| | Images of Balt gods 1. |
| | Besides Vertumn was the main god of this city (that is the main god of priests). | | | The Supreme god of ancestors of Latvians and Lithuanians was Dievas (in a Prussian pantheon he is called also 'Okopirn' - 'the most first'). | | | The God of Earth Powers in the Balt mythology were Latvian Veln - Lithuanian Vels. |
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http://balts.bravepages.com/myth.htm
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| | Global Lithuanian Net. COSMOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT BALTS |
| | The flag of Old Prussians with three main gods: Perkûnas, the god of thunder, in the center, Patrimpas, the god of spring and fertility, at the right, and Pykuolis, the god of the dead and underground, at the left. | | | The highest Lithuanian god, the creator of the world, was called Praamþius, Satvaras or Prakurimas, and sometimes simply Dievas (the God). | | | 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. |
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http://www.lithuanian.net/mitai/cosmos/baltai5.htm
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| | MYTHAEUM: |
| | • Zemnya was espoused with the sky god. | | | • The Lettish dewa deli, Lithuanian diewo sunelei were sons of the sky god. | | | • Perkunas, from perkunas, ‘lightning’, was a supreme sky god, manifesting himself in the storm. |
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http://www.mythopedia.info/15-balts.htm
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| | Dievas (Lithuanian god) |
| | Dievas in Lithuanian mythology is god of the sky, lightness, peace and friendship. | | | He took the God and started pulling to the water. | | | Velnias execrated Dievas and wanted drown him, while he was sleeping. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/dievas__lithuanian_god_
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| | Lithuanian Romuva |
| | If you chose to worship a form of God in your spiritual or religious practice, the essence and goal is holding that God in your daily life and carrying that God throughout your life. | | | Dievas, Laima and Þemyna are the three most beloved Lithuanian deities. | | | Prayer begins with the dainas and ends with God being part and parcel of your entire life. |
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http://www.romuva.lt/index.php?kalba=engl&page=tikejimas&nr=3
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| | Although males form the majority of the sky gods, the chthonic (underworld) divinities are mostly female. | | | Such divinities have a tendency, in comparison with other gods of their religions, to recede into a secondary role. | | | In both Latvian and Lithuanian religions the earth is personified and called Earth Mother (Latvian Zemes m_ate, Lithuanian ^Zemyna). |
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http://www.necronomi.com/magic/paganism-celtic/baltic_gods.txt
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| | FOLK KNOWLEDGE>Lithuanian Ethnoastronomy>The Name of the Moon and its Origin |
| | It must be separately marked that Lithuanians residing in Byelorussia in the ethnic areas of Lithuania population in some places refer to the Moon as Dievaitis (in dialect Dievaicis) ‘‘ jaunas dievas, dievo sûnus’ ‘ 'young god, the son of God'. | | | In the prayers and narratives the Moon occasionally is referred to as Dievas 'God' (Balys 1951, 19, 20). | | | We may assume that the Moon was referred to as Dievaitis on a much wider territory form the remaining prayers addressed to the newly risen young moon. |
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http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/eastr/moon1.html
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| | The Basis of the Old Lithuanian Religion |
| | Perkunas is the active principle of the heavens, the God of maleness, energy and heavenly fire. | | | The tradition of respecting the life of the world is the old Lithuanian faith. | | | Holiness or godliness is the fundament which unites all joining nature, the Gods and people. |
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http://vinland.org/heathen/pagancee/lithrel.html
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| | Converted WP file 1viera |
| | A reinforcement for this claim that Svarog was the father of the major Slavonic gods comes from the name of another Slavic deity, that of Svarozhits, a Fire god. | | | And among the Balts, a thunder god Perkunas was one of the major deities. | | | Nevertheless, the "core" of pre-migration period Slavic religion was acknowledgement of a passive Sky god, known as Svarog. |
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http://metalab.unc.edu/sergei/Zaroff
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| | Dievas (Russian/Slavic Gods) |
| | He declared Svarog the King of the Gods equal to Odin himself and continued many of the same ancient Baltic rituals alongside his old Norse customs. | | | The eight immortals discuss the Eternal Thanos as a possible threat to their realms. | | | Very few stories have been made referring to them to avoid the tangled mess of the Celtic Gods interpreted by five to seven creative teams. |
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http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/rusgod.htm
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| | The Origin of the Lithuanian Language |
| | I am sure that all Lithuanians will immediately recognize the word as cognate with Lithuanian draugas 'friend, comrade.' Other personal names were found in official documents of Riga in the 14th and 15th centuries. | | | There is no human population anywhere in the world that does not have some language and it seems likely that the ability to speak a language is a fundamental property of all mankind. | | | Note also that Latvian is less conservative in that the earlier ending represented by standard Lithuanian -as has passed to a simple final -s in Latvian. |
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http://www.lituanus.org/1982_1/82_1_01.htm
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| | Kurgan Culture |
| | Come dawn, the stallion was dismembered into three portions: one to the god of the warriors, one to the priests' share, and one to the gods of artisans and farmers. | | | There is a great deal of evidence that the Thunder god was THE king of the gods in Proto-Indo-European mythology. | | | The Divine Twins, sons of the Sky God / (who are associated with horses) / Court the Sun Maiden / Who is their sister / She is promised to them in marriage. |
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http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Kurgans.htm
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| | Baltic Religion |
| | It is thought that at the top of the Baltic pantheon stood Dievas (God) who lived in the sky. | | | It retained many of the main polytheistic elements of ancient Indo-European religions including a three-tiered world structure. | | | Under him was the most active and powerful mythological personage, Perkunas, god of thunder. |
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http://www.lfcc.lt/publ/roots/node16.html
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| | God's love alphabetically revealed in different languages! |
| | "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16 NIV). | | | God's love is alphabetically revealed in random languages | | | God het u lief "God het die wêreld so lief gehad dat Hy Sy enigste Seun gegee het, sodat die wat in Hom glo, nie verlore sal gaan nie, maar die ewige lewe sal hê." |
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http://www.pittsburghstandard.com/APRIL2004/LoveLanguages.html
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| | The Baltic Languages |
| | For example, the following proverb written in modern Lithuanian and Sanskrit demonstrates these likenesses: | | | Sanskrit and the Baltic languages constitute two poles between which are sought the origins of the Indo-European languages. | | | While other Indo-European languages underwent rapid transformations, the languages in the Baltic branch, and Lithuanian in particular, remained relatively unchanged. |
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http://www.lfcc.lt/publ/roots/node14.html
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| | The Stone God Awakens |
| | who knew that Ulysses, the newly-awakened Stone God, could destroy his reign. | | | It would have been an easy task for a god, but he was only a man - and the only man at that. | | | To do so, and to fulfill the single condition set by his worshippers, he had to confront The Tree. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~rnuninga/NovCol/NCsga.htm
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| | Spiritual Help and Daily Living Advice |
| | Why Does God Send His Children to Hell? | | | No one can prove to you the existence of God, as in a mathematical proof. | | | This problem has troubled Christians for two thousand years... |
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http://www.Meaning-of-life.info
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| | Other Languages-- Slovak, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, more: Lithuanian language |
| | And even though all these measures are being taken, Lithuanian is full of words brought from other languages. | | | Consequently, many Lithuanian words are the same or very similar to Indoeuropean ones: | | | I've become very interested in the Lithuanian language as it seems so amazingly close to the original Indoeuropean. |
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http://experts.about.com/q/656/2817509.htm
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