relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 2283,ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS,opposes,ENT_BALT_VELNIAS,high,The central Baltic mythological narrative: Perkūnas (thunder) pursues Velnias (chthonic) who steals cattle or a solar being and hides below the earth or in trees. Perkūnas shatters hiding places with lightning. Attested in dozens of Lithuanian folk songs and reconstructed comparatively. Greimas (1992) pp. 77-120; Gimbutas (1963) p. 200.,SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed,PER_BALT_PAGAN 2301,ENT_SLAV_VELES,aligned_with,ENT_BALT_VELNIAS,high,"Veles and Velnias are cognate chthonic deities: cognate names (PIE *wel-, the dead), same underworld governance, same cattle/wealth domain, same antagonism to the thunder deity. Brückner (1918) pp. 138-155; Greimas (1992) pp. 121-150.",SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH,reviewed,PER_SLAV_PAGAN