{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS", "Perk\u016bnas", null, "Baltic", "God", "Thunder Deity", "thunder; lightning; storm; order; battle against chaos", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Thunder deity; Lithuanian Perk\u016bnas, Latvian P\u0113rkons, Old Prussian Percunis. Name from Baltic *Perk\u016bnas, cognate with Sanskrit Parjanya, Old Norse Fj\u00f6rgyn (earth, mother of Thor), and ultimately PIE *perk\u02b7- (oak, thunder). Perk\u016bnas is the great storm deity who drives away Velnias (the chthonic serpentine deity), often depicted as Velnias hiding under trees, in cattle, in humans \u2014 and Perk\u016bnas shattering the hiding place with lightning. This Perk\u016bnas-vs.-Velnias myth is one of the best-attested Baltic mythological narratives, preserved in folk songs and converging with Vedic Indra-vs.-Vrtra and Slavic Perun-vs.-Veles. First attested as \"Percunis\" in the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (c. 1290 CE). Gimbutas (1963) pp. 199-200; Greimas (1992) pp. 77-120.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8692599999449158, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}