Christian Description of Baltic Paganism From 1500's

(April 15, 2025) More information about some deities were written down during the 1500's, just after the country had been nominally Christianized and numerous literate Christians were living there. After that time, the name past into legend in which many other related attributes were assigned to it by folk custom. The deity Perkunas was the deity most often mentioned in these 1500's documents from Latvia and Lithuania.  

Christian writings often associate Perkunas with lightening and fire. The Christian cleric Jan Malecki wrote this in 1551:

• Among the Samogitians there is a hill situated by the River Nevezis, on whose summit at one time a perpetual fire was kept burning by a priest in honour of the same Perkunas, who is still believed by this superstitious people to be powerful in thunder and tempests (Young 2022)

1. Perkunas is the Druid Akkadian phrase P.ER.K.UN.AṢ meaning "Openings of the harbor involving fate-curse expulsions."

"Expulsions" and "emanations" are differentiated in runic texts. Emanations are ethereal spiritual powers such as light and heat from a fire or magical powers from rituals. This is unlike expulsions which are things like ash from a fire or rain from the sky. Here curses are interpreted to be more like expulsions.

In Druid culture "Harbor" was an epithet for the starry night sky in which the stars were assumed to be openings in the sky shell which let through the fate-powers which triggered the rains. Consequently, perkunas is a concept about combining the rain bringing storm powers (a life class power) with fate (a motion class power).  

This same deity is found as the medieval Slavic god known as Perun/Piorun. "Perun" is the Druid Akkadian phrase  P.ER.UN meaning "Openings for the harbor's expulsions." "Piorun" is the Druid Akkadian phrase P.Y'.R.UN meaning "Openings for Yahu's eagle-vulture expulsions." Eagle-vultures (later griffons) were the editors of the life network often controlled by fate. Here Yahu/Yahweh (mistranslated as Lord in the Old Testament of the Christian church) is expelling those.

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Catholic missionary Jerzy Szawinski found Samogitians involved with these owl powers in 1639. The region of Samogitia (Latinization of  is located in the northwest corner of Lithuania. "Samogitia" is a Latinization of the native word for the region with is Žemaitija. 

1. Zemines - This is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.IN.ES meaning "Emanations supervising the Moon-eye's (Su) spiritual-fluid-filterers (owls)." Owls were the harbingers of fate.
2. Laukines - This is the Druid Akkadian phrase L.AW.K.IN.ES meaning "Avoidance of emotion-powers involving the spiritual-fluid-filterers (owls)
3. Pagirnes - This is the Druid Akkadian phrase P.AG.IR.N.ES meaning "Opening the anger of astrological-fate-powers revealing the spiritual-fluid-filterers. (owls)"

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(April 18 2025) Christian observers of the Baltic cultures saw everything through their religious paradigm. Everything was about worshiping personified deities which was not the Druid Pagan way. 

An example of incorrect Christian interpretation a 1593 Lithuanian language Catholic catechism by Mikalojus Dauksa (c1527-1613) condemned

• "those who worship the fire, Zemyna, snakes, grass-snakes, Perkunas, trees, groves, Medeina, Kaukai, and other demons." (quoted in Bet'akova and Blazek, Lexicon of Baltic Mythology, pages 96-97).

Snakes are the general ancient representations of fate as being the powers of life and death. The magical Druid concepts mentioned in that quote are:

1. Medeina is the Druid Akkadian phrase M.ED.E.Y.IN.A meaning "The fertility-fluid's motivations resulting from not making ineffective the Moon-eye (Su)" with the /A/ ending being the verb. Su is the dark new moon and eye pupil god of astrological motion and hence the god of fate.
2. Kaukai is the Druid Akkadian phrase K.AW.K.AY meaning "The involvement of emotion-powers (Awen) involving Ayu." where Ayu is the crescent moon goddess who edits the life network.

• the spirits whom the Ruthenians call Uboze; they have little beards, and are as tall as a single open palm. There are notable people who believe they exist; others not at all. They put out food and all kinds of edible things for them. Their opinion is that unless they do this they will thereby lose their good luck, whatever happens. (PEMB 151)

1. Uboze is an Akkadian phrase W.B'.Z.E meaning "The curses making ineffective the nest of the emanation's."

The Latin term "Rutheni" was used in medieval sources to describe all Eastern Slavs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He continues on talking about barstukai who he claimed were similar to the kauki:

• For these (the Samogitians) put out bread, cheese, butter, and beer in the evening on a table draped with a cloth.  And they do not doubt the arrival fo good fortune if, in the morning, they discover the food consumed. But if any food remains untouched on the table , they are greatly troubled with anxiety, perceiving nothing as not unlucky. 

• The same peoples worship certain visible spirits who are called kobaldy in the Ruthenian language, kobaldoi in the Greek, and Kobolde in German. (Pemb 157-159)

1. Barstukai is the Druid Akkadian phrase B.AR.ST.UK.AY meaning "The nourishments controlling the allocations and involvement of Ayu. 
2. Koboldy is the Druid Akkadian phrase K'.B'.LD.Y meaning "Prodding of network-birds which are not not cultivating."

The eagle-vultures are the network birds here and they also edit the life network's connections like Ayu but the eagle-vultures can also be affected by magic. In a similar vein Mazvydas in 1547 declared that 

• "Those who join their souls to evil arts profess the Aitvarai and Kaukai to be their gods. (PEMB 83)

1. Aitvarai is the Druid Akkadian phrase A.IT.W.AR.AY meaning "The results of the omens about fate-curses controlling Ayu.

Catholic missionary Jerzy Szawinski said this in 1639 that the Aitvarai were:

• "truly nothing other than incubi, evil spirits, sometimes appearing in human form, and many in a foul form, cockerels flying in the woods or having the raised feathers of the peacock. If sparks of fire seem to flash from thetail, it taken sadly as a sign that it will bring neither money nor grain to the worshipper. But if it should appear somewhat dark and obscure, it is thought to return burdened with grain and coins at the rejoicing of the simple people. I have often myself seen it in this form flying late at night, and having made the sign of the cross, I averted it - it suddenly disappeared or plunged itself into the pools. Indeed, I have also uncovered the thefts of the same, devastating barns, granaries and stores of food (Rabikauskas, Relationes status dioecestium, 266)

(April 16, 2025) Emanations are ethereal spiritual powers such as light and heat from a fire or magical powers from rituals. This is unlike expulsions which are things like ash from a fire or rain from the sky. This set of words which were thought to be deities by Christian observers instead seem to be descriptions of various magical rituals. It participants were not sacrificing to some Pagan deity but were generating spiritual powers for a definite purpose.

1. Zemyna is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.IN.A meaning "Emanations resulting in supervising the Moon-Eye" where the ending /A/ is the verb.
2. Zemepatis is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.EP.AT.IS meaning "Emanations supervising the baking by the Monitor's (Su) woman (Selu/Selene)
3. Zemininkas is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.IN.IN.K.AS meaning "Emanations supervising the Moon-eye's looniness involving the Celestial-healer (Selu/Selene).
4. Zemepaciai is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.P.AK.Y.AY meaning "Emanations supervising the openings of the emotion-owls without Ayu.
5. Žemaitija - This is the name for the northwest Lithuanian region called Samogitia in Latin texts. It is the Druid Akkadian phrase Z.EM.AY.T.IG.A meaning "Emanations resulting from supervising Ayu's astrologic-magic from the eyes-of-fate (heavenly bodies). This phrase apparently describes the main religious characteristic of the tribe living in that region.

This spiritual power of fire was associated with the goddess Gabija in Lithuania which is another Druid concept.

1. Gabija is the Druid Akkadian phrase G.AB.IG.A meaning "Energy from the priest-parents affecting the eye's of fate." 

Priest-Parents were a class of Druid priests/priestesses who integrated life powers with the motion powers by revealing fate which overruled them all. The "eye's of fate" were the stars representing the goddess Selu/Selene.

Later Gabija was also modified to gabieta under Christian influence.

1. Gabieta is the Druid Akkadian phrase G.AB.YE.T.A meaning "Energy from the priest-parents of Yahu affecting astrology-magic" 

This shows the infiltration of Christian influence in which Yahu/Yahweh as a personified god was taking over all divine powers. Similarly, to their south in Prussian lands, a phrase for a futile ritual is found: panicke. 

1. Panicke is the Druid Akkadian phrase P.AN.IK.K.E meaning "Opening considerations for the irrigation-network's involvement of nothing." 

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/gabija