fired into a nearby oak. The priest then saw a flower growing inside the hollowed tree. Therefore, the oak was given the name of Perkūnas, and it is said...

Perkūnas (Lithuanian: Perkūnas, Latvian: Pērkons, Old Prussian: Perkūns, Perkunos, Yotvingian: Parkuns, Latgalian: Pārkiuņs) was the common Baltic god...

inhabited them. In Norse and Baltic mythology, the oak was sacred to the thunder gods Thor and Perkūnas respectively. In Celtic polytheism, the name druid...

Samogitian Art Museum is located. In the Oginskiai manor park stands the Perkūnas oak natural monument. The Lourdes of Plungė was created in 1905 and attracts...

Lithuanian Perkūnas were said to dwell on lofty mountaintops. Such places are called perkūnkalnis in Lithuanian, meaning the "summit of Perkūnas", while...

Lithuanian Perkūnas/Dundulis–Perkūna, and finding similarities in the Vedic hymns to Parjanya. Perun is strongly correlated with the near-identical Perkūnas/Pērkons...

each spring the earth needs to be impregnated by Perkūnas - the heavens rain and thunder. Perkūnas unlocks (atrakina) the Earth. It was prohibited to...

supreme god or just another euphemism. Perkūnas was the god of thunder, one of the most powerful deities. Perkūnas survived in popular belief and folk tales...

eternal sacred fire, an eternally green oak with idols representing a pagan "trinity": Patrimpas (god of spring), Perkūnas (god of thunder) and Patulas (god...

Karelians. Peko is sometimes associated with Estonian Pikne (Pitkne), Baltic Perkūnas or even Christian Saint Peter. [citation needed] Before Pentecost festivities...

Perkunatele or Perkūnėlė is in Baltic mythology the thunder goddess mother of Perkūnas, in Slavic mythology referred to as Percunatele mother of Perun, which...

with various other Indo-European Gods such as Slavic Perun, Lithuanian Perkūnas, Latvian Pērkons and Finnish Perkele "god of thunder", Gothic fairguni...

*dyḗws Albanian Indo-European Perkūnas From Proto-Balto-Slavic *Perkūnas, from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷunos, from *pérkʷus (“oak”). Baltic Indo-European Týr...

also considered to be etymologically related to Lithuanian thunder god Perkūnas. He is also known as Pērkons in Latvian; Perkūns or Perkunos in Old Prussian;...

(Sami mythology) Orko (Basque mythology) Perëndi (Albanian mythology) Perkūnas (Baltic mythology) Perkwunos (Proto-Indo-European mythology) Perun (Slavic...

Bangpūtys, Lithuanian god of storms and the sea Perkūnas, Baltic god of thunder, rain, mountains, and oak trees. Servant of the creator god Dievas. Perun...

(Lithuanian), a devil-like entity and enemy of the Baltic thunder-god Perkūnas (cf. Slavic Perun).[citation needed] Scholar Marija Gimbutas cited "related"...

indicated that the oak was considered a sacred tree to pre-Christian Baltic religion, including being a tree associated to thunder god Perkunas. The third revision...

their god. Some Slavic deities are related to Baltic mythology: Perun/Perkūnas, Veles/Velnias, Rod/Dievas, Yarilo/Saulė. There was an evident continuity...

Dievaitis ("Little God" or "Prince"), a name used to refer to the Thunder God Perkūnas, or to the Moon God Mėnuo. Germanic: *tīwaz (pl. *tīwōz), a word for "god"...

Polish name for lightning is piorun, derived from the god's name. Pērkons/Perkūnas is the common Baltic god of thunder, one of the most important deities...

In the borders of the manor park, grows a huge oak, called the oak of the Thunder God, or Perkūnas in Lithuanian, from ancient pagan beliefs. Legend...

and his darling began to live unmarried on this hill. For this, the god Perkūnas caused a huge storm and struck the mountain with lightning. Vytautas the...

thunder: the Celtic Taranis, the Estonian Taara (or Tharapita), the Baltic Perkūnas, the Slavic Perun, and particularly the Hindu Indra, whose thunderbolt...

would parallel the Old Norse couple Fjörgyn–Fjörgynn and the Lithuanian Perkūnas–Perkūnija. According to another theory the Balkan names with the root per-...

("lord of frenzy"), Gaulish Epona ("goddess of horses"), Lithuanian Perkūnas ("lord of oaks"), and in Roman Neptunus ("lord of waters"), Volcanus ("lord of...

first residence in Kaunas in 1642 and established a chapel in the House of Perkūnas in 1643, while their Church of St. Francis Xavier was constructed in 1666–1720...

folklorist Jonas Trinkūnas suggested that the Lithuanian horseman depicts Perkūnas, who was considered as the god of the Lithuanian soldiers, thunder, lightning...

Memorialinis Būtas-Muziejus Museum of Adam Mickiewicz in Vilnius. The House of Perkūnas in Kaunas where the school Mickiewicz attended used to be located has a...

between the Germanic and Lithuanian peoples, like the veneration of the god Perkūnas. In the 1230s, there were military clashes between the Christians and the...