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 2284,ENT_BALT_VELNIAS,opposed_by,ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS,high,"Velnias is the chthonic antagonist of Perkūnas in the cosmic battle myth; he flees into the earth, trees, and water to escape Perkūnas's lightning. 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 Perkūnas, who splits Meness with his sword — 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 Saulė in the celestial myth cycle; their separation is adjudicated by Perkūnas. 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, Perkūnas judges the moon guilty of unfaithfulness to Saulė 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,"Perkūnas 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 *perkʷ- (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 — 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 — 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. Greimas (1992) p. 73.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed,PER_BALT_PAGAN 2473,ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS,patron_of,ENT_JUSTICE,medium,"Perkūnas enforces oaths and moral order, striking the unrighteous; he punishes Mēness for infidelity, a juridical-moral function emphasised in Lithuanian sources.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 2479,ENT_BALT_MEDEINA,patron_of,ENT_ANIMALS,medium,"Medeina is the Baltic forest goddess (from medis, tree/forest), mistress of the woodland and protector of its beasts and the hunt.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5711,ENT_BALT_AUSRINE,member_of,ENT_BALT_PANTHEON,high,"Aušrinė/Auseklis, the morning star, is a member of the Baltic pantheon.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5713,ENT_BALT_BANGPUTYS,member_of,ENT_BALT_PANTHEON,high,"Bangpūtys, sea/storm god, is a member of the Baltic pantheon.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5718,ENT_BALT_AITVARAS,member_of,ENT_BALT_PANTHEON,medium,"Aitvaras, household wealth-serpent, belongs to the Baltic supernatural world.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5719,ENT_BALT_KAUKAS,member_of,ENT_BALT_PANTHEON,medium,"Kaukas, household spirit, belongs to the Baltic supernatural world.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5721,ENT_BALT_AUSRINE,child_of,ENT_BALT_SAULE,medium,In Lithuanian tradition Aušrinė is a daughter of the sun Saulė.,SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5722,ENT_BALT_BANGPUTYS,presides_over,ENT_WATER,high,Bangpūtys is the god of the sea and storm waves.,SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5730,ENT_BALT_AITVARAS,presides_over,ENT_FORTUNE,high,Aitvaras brings wealth and good fortune (by theft) to the household it favors.,SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5731,ENT_BALT_KAUKAS,presides_over,ENT_FORTUNE,medium,"Kaukas, household spirit, brings prosperity to the homestead.",SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed, 5732,ENT_BALT_KAUKAS,presides_over,ENT_PROTECTION,medium,Kaukas guards and protects the home and farm.,SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN,reviewed,