sources: SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS

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SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963)   secondary scholarship The foundational English-language survey of Baltic culture and religion, covering Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian traditions from the Bronze Age through the medieval Christianisation period. Chapter 9 (The Religion of the Balts) is the standard academic overview of the Baltic pantheon in English: Dievas (sky god), Perkūnas (thunder), Velnias/Vels (chthonic), Laima (fate), Saulė (sun), Meness (moon), Žemyna (earth), and associated folk deities. Gimbutas draws on chronicle sources (Lasicki 1615, Stryjkowski 1582, Grunau 1517-21) and comparative Indo-European evidence. Standard citation for Baltic deity attestation in the secondary literature.

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