Depiction of Perkūns (the Thunder God) by Society for the Protection of Monuments and Local History of the Lithuanian SSR (Lietuvos TSR paminklų apsaugos ir kraštotyros draugijos)
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Perkūns (the Thunder God)

Old Prussian · deity · old prussian pagan · deity

Perkūns, the thunder god, is named (with Patrimpo and Patollo) among the three idols set in the holy oak of Romuva in Grunau's chronicle; the historicity of the Romuva sanctuary is debated, but Perkūns himself is a securely Baltic deity. The Old Prussians were a West Baltic people Christianised by the Teutonic Order; their language died out by the 18th century.

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