• `aitivaras: elf, flying specter; household spirit that steals from others to provide for landlord; but perhaps this negative spin is a result of Christianity
  • Alabatis: god helping flax hacklers
  • Algis: messenger god
  • Apidome: god of moving homes?
  • Aspelenie: god behind the hearth
  • Atlaibos: unknown god
  • Audėtoja: one of 7 goddesses of fate; weaves fate or holds warp of fate
  • Audros (dievas): storm god
  • Ausca: goddess of the rays of sun while setting or dawning
  • Austheia: goddess of bees
  • Auštra: goddess of dawn
  • Auxtheias Vissagistis: supreme god
  • Bangputis: god of storm and sea
  • Bauba, Baubutis, Bukas: the devil
  • Baubas, Babaušis: bogeys and specters; probably degradation of Baubis
  • Baubis: cattle god
  • Beaukuris: guard of the crop
  • Bentis: unknown god; "causes two or many to set out on a journey"
  • Beržulis: god of birch trees, or god of protector of lot borders
  • Bezlea: goddess of dusk
  • Breksta: goddess of nightfall (darkness); perhaps goddess of dawn
  • Bubilos: god of honey and bees
  • Budintoja: goddess of awakening (reminding?)
  • burėjà/burėjas: fortune teller (male/female); perhaps derived from word for flock, swarm, flight of wild geese, hailstorm, downpour
  • bùrtvis,-ė: sorcerer, enchantress
  • bužys: bogey, specter, clown/jester
  • Chaurirari: horse god
  • dainà: folk song
  • Dalia: goddess of destiny
  • Dievas: "god"; supreme sky god? perhaps worshiped in trinity with Perkunas and Velinas; god of justice, housework, knew eveyrone's destinies; hay and grains sacrificed to him for hep with growing well next year
  • Derfintos: god that provides peace (Žemaitian)
  • Dimstipatis: god of house; protects god from fire
  • Eglė: spruce/fir tree; queen of grass snakes
  • Ežerinis: lake god
  • Ežiagulys: god of death
  • fate goddesses: Verpiančioji (spinning flax), Metančioji (threads yarn onto loom), Audėtoja (weaves linen), Gadintoja (spools it), Sergėtoja (guards), Nukirptoja (cuts), Išskalbtoja (washes)
  • frogs: form taken by house-spirits, chthonic goddess, and witches
  • Gabija: goddess of fire in the household; Prayer: "Fire, divine daughter, lift the steam/smoke, do not let the sparkles out."; Pelengabija: goddess who takes care of the hearth and ensures it shines; Matergabia: mother fire whom cake is sacrificed
  • Gabikis: evil spirit or devil; probably negative due to Christianity
  • Gabjaukurys: god that maintains the sacred sacrificial fire
  • Gabvartas: guard of the crops or riches
  • Giltinė: goddess of death and misfortune
  • Girstis: Prussian (but perhaps Žemaitian) god of forests or listening
  • grass snake: žaltys; treated as household spirits
  • Ievulis: forest god or eagle-owl
  • ìndėvės: spirit that has possessed a person
  • Jaugabis: god that attends and expands fire
  • Javìnė: goddess of grain
  • Juratė: literary creation of Narbutt
  • Kaukas: devil or evil spirit
  • Kaunis: god of love; creation of Narbutt
  • Kelių dievas: god of paths and roads, traveling
  • Kerpyčius and Šilinyčius: deities of moss and lichen; sacrifice bread or coins after finishing house
  • Kiaulų Kruke: god fo hogs
  • Kirnis: god of cherry trees and orchards or god of moors overgrown with shrubs
  • Krivė-Krivaitis: priest of Perkūnas in town of Vilnius; probably named for the crooked staff held
  • Krūminė Pradžių Varpų: deity that provides all sorts of grain
  • Laima: goddess of fate, luck, and successful childbirth; attributes: knife, keys, woven belt (associated with childbirth); also goddess of women in general; present on right side of paths; threshold is where human household meets world of supernatural beings
  • Lauma: goddess of childbirth; Lauma's belt = rainbow; specter that comes on Thursday nights if girls spinning on Thursday; associated with earth and sky; perhaps originally Perkūnas's wife; beautiful with long blond hair and large breasts
  • lauma: modern term for kind of fairy that does harm to people occasionally
  • Lazdona: goddess of hazelnuts and hazel trees; the devil is afraid of hazel trees
  • Lietuonis: god of rain
  • Ligyčius: Žemaitian god that gives and keeps peace; perhaps just famous human judge
  • Magyla: assistant to the goddess of death
  • Medeina: goddess of forest
  • Medeinas: god of forest
  • Medžiorys, pl. Medžioriai: tree priests (Žemaitian)
  • Meletette: deity of plants used by dyers and colors, especially blue
  • Mėnuo: moon god
  • Milda: goddess of love, but creation of Narbutt
  • Nijolė: goddess of underworld; creation of Narbutt
  • Numa-dievas: god of the household
  • Numejas: home-deity
  • Perkūnas: thunder god; attribute of an axe, associated with oak
  • Pikulas: god of underworld and darkness
  • priests: no temples because they needed to be open-air; Lithuania probably had priests for sanctuaries
  • Prigirstytis: listening god or spirit; listens to whispers
  • Ragaina: goddess of forests
  • ragana: witch
  • Ratainyčia: goddess of horses
  • Rugių boba: rye old woman; spirit or deity of lower rank who cared for good harvest
  • Saulija: goddess of the sun
  • Seitonys: soothsayer from amulets (Žemaitian)
  • Sergėtoja: Weird sister; guard over the sick or children
  • Sietonys: Žemaitian soothsayer of a sieve
  • Skalsa: godess of abundance; cornucopia
  • Sovij: mythological being and cultural hero
  • Sutvaras: god of cattle
  • Tavvals: god? daddy?
  • Teljavelis: celestial smith; forged the sun
  • Trimpas: unclear deity,
  • Upinis: river god
  • užkalbėtojas: incantor; heal by changing incantation
  • vaidila: magician, troubadour; priest
  • Valgina: goddess of doemstic animals bred for consumption (Žemaitian)
  • Vandeluęiai: water-seers; dive into water and to say whether it's good to fish
  • Vejdeivas: god of wind
  • Vėjonys: wizards ruling wind (Žemaitian)
  • Vėjopatis: lord of wind; depicted with 2 faces, open mouth, wings on shoulders, arms spread out, holding a keg and a fish
  • velija: souls of the dead
  • Velinas; the devil; god of the dead; unpredictable, clever, silly, trickster; able to transform into any man, but also black animals; one eye
  • Veliunoa: goddess of ancestors souls
  • Viduronys: seers from entrails
  • vilktakis: werewolf; human with the ability to turn into wolf
  • Želus: god of growing grass
  • Žemepatis: lord of the earth
  • Žemina: goddess of the earth
  • Žvėronys: priests taking care of forest animals (Žemaitian)
  • Zvėruna: goddess; perhaps canis major
  • žynys/žynė: wizard/witch
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