entities: ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS

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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
ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS Perkūnas   Baltic God Thunder Deity thunder; lightning; storm; order; battle against chaos       A           Thunder deity; Lithuanian Perkūnas, Latvian Pērkons, Old Prussian Percunis. Name from Baltic *Perkūnas, cognate with Sanskrit Parjanya, Old Norse Fjörgyn (earth, mother of Thor), and ultimately PIE *perkʷ- (oak, thunder). Perkūnas is the great storm deity who drives away Velnias (the chthonic serpentine deity), often depicted as Velnias hiding under trees, in cattle, in humans — and Perkūnas shattering the hiding place with lightning. This Perkūnas-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

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