Perkūnas

Lithuanian · deity · mythic · deity

Lithuanian/Baltic thunder god, second only to Dievas; god of storms, oak, fire, law and fertility, eternal foe of Velnias; cognate with Slavic Perun.

Domains

thunder

Powers

Hurl the thunderbolt and strike devils with his axe
Cleave the unfaithful Moon for courting Aušrinė

Epithets

Dundulis
Dievaitis

Relations

enemy: Mėnulis
enemy: Velnias
equated with: Perun

Sources

Lithuanian dainos; Malalas Chronicle interpolation (1261) listing Perkūnas
Indo-European *Perk(w)unos; M. Gimbutas, The Balts (1963)

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