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Greimas (1992) pp. 121-150.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2285, "ENT_BALT_DIEVAS", "paired_with", "ENT_BALT_LAIMA", "medium", "Dievas and Laima together dispense fate in the Lithuanian folk narrative; they are sometimes depicted as partners who decide human destiny. Greimas (1992) pp. 57-75; Gimbutas (1963) p. 202.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2286, "ENT_BALT_SAULE", "paired_with", "ENT_BALT_MENESS", "high", "Sun and moon are divine partners in the Baltic celestial myth; their marriage and subsequent troubled relationship (Meness's infidelity with the morning star) judged by Perk\u016bnas, who splits Meness with his sword \u2014 explaining the moon's phases. Greimas (1992) pp. 188-250.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2287, "ENT_BALT_MENESS", "paired_with", "ENT_BALT_SAULE", "high", "Moon is paired with the sun goddess Saul\u0117 in the celestial myth cycle; their separation is adjudicated by Perk\u016bnas. Greimas (1992) pp. 221-250.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2288, "ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS", "judges", "ENT_BALT_MENESS", "high", "In the celestial myth, Perk\u016bnas judges the moon guilty of unfaithfulness to Saul\u0117 and splits him with a sword, explaining the waning moon. This is one of the most widely attested narrative elements in Baltic folk song. Greimas (1992) pp. 221-250.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2291, "ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS", "aligned_with", "ENT_NOR_THOR", "high", "Perk\u016bnas and Thor are cognate thunder deities: both wield the thunder weapon against a serpentine or giant antagonist, both protect the ordered world from chthonic chaos. The PIE *perk\u02b7- (oak/thunder) root and the structural myth parallel are well established. Gimbutas (1963) p. 199; Greimas (1992) pp. 77-84.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2401, "ENT_BALT_RAGANA", "opposes", "ENT_BALT_LAIMA", "medium", "In Lithuanian folk religion and demonology, Ragana and Laima represent opposing principles of fate: Laima is the benevolent fate-goddess who determines the duration and fortune of a human life at birth, while Ragana embodies the dark, inversive principle \u2014 the witch who harms newborns, causes illness, curdles milk, and brings misfortune. This opposition is documented extensively in Lithuanian folk songs (dainos), folk tale collections, and in the post-Reformation Lithuanian ecclesiastical surveys that catalogue surviving pagan customs. The Ragana/Laima opposition is structurally parallel to the universal mythological contrast between beneficent fate goddess and malevolent death/illness spirit. Greimas, Of Gods and Men (1992) pp. 58-77.", "SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN", "reviewed", "PER_BALT_PAGAN"], [2402, "ENT_BALT_RAGANA", "aligned_with", "ENT_HECATE", "medium", "Ragana and Hecate share a cluster of defining attributes that make them the clearest structural parallel across the Baltic and Greek traditions: both are nocturnal sorceress figures associated with crossroads, the moon, shape-shifting, death, and the ambiguous boundary between the living and the dead. Ragana appears in Lithuanian folklore as a shape-shifting witch who travels at night, transforms into animals (especially cats and birds), and is associated with harmful magic and infant death \u2014 parallels to Hecate as Chthonia (underworld goddess), Trioditis (crossroads deity), and the patron of witchcraft invoked in Greek magical papyri. Neither figure is a straightforward \"goddess of witches\" in her origin tradition (Hecate has a complex Titaness origin; Ragana may derive from an earlier supernatural female figure), but their convergent role in folk magic, nocturnal danger, and death boundary makes the alignment structurally sound. Confidence medium: the parallel is typological, not genetic; no direct historical connection exists between Lithuanian and Greek traditions. 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