Latvian mythology

“Laima’s themes are love, unity, blessing, luck, destiny and magic. Her symbols are wreaths and swans. The Lithuanian Goddess of fate, luck, beauty and magic swoops into our lives in t…

Digital painting of a local pagan godess reimagined.

Illustration for Latvian folk song collection "Dainas"

The Murphysboro Mud Monster is a mysterious large beast sighted at midnight in 1973, when a young couple was parked by a desolate riverside for a romantic interlude when they came face to face with a huge, wet, hairy, mud-slathered beast with a penchant for disturbing teenage lovers. During two harrowing weeks in the summer of 1973, the rural town of Murphysboro, Illinois became the epicenter of a terrifying series of encounters with a huge, albino beast, which would come to be known as the…

The Lithuanian legend Jūratė and Kastytis tells the sad story of an impossible love between a goddess and a man in the Baltic Sea.

Latvian & Lithuanian Prehistory Sun Goddess Saule - https://www.facebook.com/ElderMountainRetreats

Perkūnas is the god of thunder throughout Eastern Europe. He was the common Baltic god of thunder, one of the most important deities in the Baltic pantheon. People pay homage to Perkons by first pouring him beer, which is then brought around the fire, and at last pour it in this fire, asking Perkons to give them rain.”