in Poland christianisation took control through tortures, killing and destruction of indigenous culture, so sad, and it continues with its methods, Poland's history is filled with acts of Church's crimes, intrigues and manipulations
@Vasian Vasianich - Gee, I don't know... The pope owning brothels, the pope being a mafia don, worshiping of saints (which is only a Catholic thing and directly contradicts the bible), Catholics selling seats in heaven, etc. What he meant is according to the true spirit of Christianity. Catholicism is mainly Roman paganism with Jesus replacing Jupiter. In fact, there are prayers in Latin where God is called "Deus Patr" which was literally Zeus/Jupiter's actual title. Protestantism tried to get back to basics - to shed the gold and drop the "man made" stuff. The problem is it still had a lot of Catholic influence like Sunday worship, the trinity, etc. that are incompatible with the Judaic roots. So basically Protestants took a lie, tried to make it a truth and totally missed the mark. But what does it matter? All Abrahamic religions are poison.
im Latvian and I remember how my grandmother always used to go to great lengths not to harm the grass snakes (zalktis) in her garden. The same with spiders, bad luck to kill spiders
There is no reason to hate each other. Globalists don't want to see us united, this is why there is so much propaganda coming from polish and lithuanian news.
In Hindu faith, Fire is sacred. We use fire in our religious work, we use fire in wedding (Vedic weddings) and as an essential element of nature, it does play a great role in many other things.
If lietuvieši are anything like my latviešu family they sing this song till the flames stop, then they start running and jumping over the campfire if its to easy with holding hand with the ones they love if still to easy holding in their hands the one they love, if still to easy show off, then they feast and when you and the one you love is done eating you go off in to the forrest to look for the flower of the fern that if found lets you see treasure everywhere arround you but once you find it go home and never look back or you will go mad (if you indians have no connection to the land Im gona spell it out for you, ferns dont have flower the lovers go have sex and find children which lets them treasure them and the other things you have and once your a parrent there really is no looking back if you dont want to go mad), also no going to sleep before dawn.
As a Slav, I feel very connceted to our Baltic cousins! Preserve your culture and be proud of it! Your style of singing reminds me much of ours! Also, your language remained much unchanged from our ancestral language... I wish you well, may your wonderful culture be preserved ❤❤
Lithuanian, Baltic mythology is probably my second favorite along with Slavic mythology.They aer very similar, in the way they feel,the Forest atmosphere within. Greetings to Baltic cousins from a Slav.
@@WitcherGerd Perkūnas-Perun they’re both the gods of thunder ??? What do you mean by Both? Perun is only simplyfied version of Perkūnas. name Perun itself has no meaning, but all pagan gods had meaningful names like PerKūnas=Through the Body in Lithuanian. So Perkūnas and even Perun has nothing to Slavs
I'm from Latvija and I love my Lithuanian brothers and sisters. I would definitely recommend a trip to Latvija during Jāņi (summer solstice) it's by far my favorite holiday and it still retains most of its pagan roots (Dievturība).
Lithuania looks a lot like Nova Scotia, where I'm from, its really flat and forested and filled with lakes, probably similar weather too. Nice post, I always found it really cool how preserved the old beliefs are in those Baltic countries.
Yes the landscape is very similar. I'm from Dartmouth, haven't been in Cape Breton for a long time, I've been thinking about going for a drive up that way
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are all amazing, each having retained so much of their prehistoric culture... it's why I moved to the Baltic area, and love the wildness. Laima protect !!!
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 No, I live north of you. But consider this. I've just googled the numbers and, according to statistics, around 500 British live full time in Latvia... but 100,000 Latvians live in Britain, and they're all welcome. So, what's your problem ?
How can one not love this channel? You are amazing! Thank you for one more precious vid. I already knew of the Lithuanian Romuva (and the Latvian Dievturiba!) but it´s always refreshing to see videos about them and be able to share them so many more get to know about this ancient tradition!
I'm a descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to the United states. Growing up I never truly learned about the lithuanian culture my father's family descended from. I've recently began to learn about the culture and old faith, and it makes me proud to know part of me comes from this land. The crusaders work remains undone, let it never be finished.
This is my exact situation, my great grandfather came immigrated from Lithuania and the other side of my family is a total mix of Germanic and Baltic countries, and amercian culture and its Christianity is one of the last things I'd want to spiritually connect myself too and follow. I've always just stuck to the belief that nature is so much more than it seems and if there are any gods they will all be found within the nature we live in. Finally finding something that I can connect with that's actually apart of my blood and family history is relieving in a way
@@frost6471 I'm really sorry to hear that. We won by accepting their religion officially, but still preserving our culture locally. Our pagan brothers Prussians from the Baltic tribes were completely wiped out because they refused to surrender and convert to christianity. I can only hope and wish you victory over those barbarians. Stay strong, brother!
Pretty cool. I am not anti-Christian or something...but I do somehow feel this pretty strong attraction to Pagan believes and I am really proud that Lithuania preserved our Pagan culture so that even today we have active Pagan community. Even our Christianity is very much intertwined with Pagan culture. But exactly the Pagan culture, music, and mythology, ornaments, is something I feel somehow very close to...and something that is really ours and it never was forgotten. We never had our own country trying to destroy Pagan culture or enforce Christianity.
@@Vhisper just like the Norse. What was done to them was pure evil. There's most things that you won't find in a typical history book as it goes it's ( His story) love all my pagan brothers, sisters
A very interesting reportage on Lithuania's ancient tradition. Not many people are aware that it was the last country in Europe to convert to Christianity. We have interviewed some Lithuanian expats in the US and it was quite insightful to realize their nature, traditions and culture goes on even in distant lands. Cheers!
This is was a great video, really nice to watch :) I'm from Lithuania myself, officialy a christian, but I've always liked paganism and the old ways more :) I hope you had a great time here :)
appreciate you spreading the word of our culture. Lithuania is a very little known country outside of europe that has so many wonderful secrets to share for those who care to look.
Yes I know there is a deep ties between Lithuanian and sanskrit languages, even today Lithuanian is the language closer to sanskrit in its modern form, if we speak of European languages.
How could you not. Baltija stayed europian for longest. In fact my family prides isself grately on having never converted to chystianity, how many others can say that?
@@infinity8288 yes, the sun has been very respected and important part of the old religions, Lithuania had a strong Sun cult in the old days. Sun gives light, life, warmth and hope, I believe it holds a special place in every humans subconscious
One can never allow oneself to lose their culture, traditions and beliefs. Those are priced in societies that are at peace with itself and keeps the people grounded and humble.
This is so different to what you see in the UK where Paganism has been pushed out to the fringes to be mainly practised by people from the counter culture, which is great but brings with it, it's own problems, mainly counter culture ideas and attitudes that have nothing to do with Paganism. Great to see s true community following the old ways, looks very authentic....
Loddfafnisodr ... brother I don't hate pagans or their way of life...God has given freedom as a gift to all mankind ... everybody is free to chose his way by comparing and scrutinizing...and Jesus said that he is way truth and life...all who believe him will live forever...no other pagan or monotheistic figure has claimed the claims which Jesus has made.
Im having both my mind blown and heart bleeding watching this, realizing how the roots and origins of me had been corrupted by the Western culture... In my early 20s i left the country due to politics and dysfunctional society, majority of people mentality is toxic. I've grown so much hate and rejection to Lithuania. Yet, now 20 years later my searching of dharma (darna in lithuanian) is bringing me back....home....
My Lithuanian brothers and sisters do not let Globalism and today's sad times destroy our culture and country and its people! We don't need to be culturaly enriched from other countries! We don't want to become like Germany, Sweden or London uk!
I wish my swedish brothers would stop their nihilism and come to their sences like their norwegian and danish brothers and sisters. I think it will happen, just very slowly.
@@greengiant1017 of course every religion is better than a cult centered on a book full of murderous injunctions, towards non Muslims, called Harbi, which include pagans, Hindus and Buddhists
your channel has got such a following now i cant even find my old comment. so i will just say. this is the video that really made me watch the rest of your work. such great stuff. living history.
No wonder Hindus preserved all the wildlife of the Indian subcontinent by worshiping them.. In fact Jainism takes animal protection altogether to an another level, Jain monks walking on the road sweep their path to avoid killing of ants & insects...
My grandparents were among the lithuanian jews who fled the war and came to the United States. Fascinating to know my ancestors were actually invited in by Lithuania's king all those centuries ago.
Recently I saw an interview of Lithuanian diplomat in India where he told how Hindi and Lithuanian language both originated from Sanskrit and have many similar words. Devas (L) - Dev/devta (H) from Dev (Sanskrit); meaning- diety/God Ugnes (L) - Agni (H) from Agney (S); meaning- Fire Shakha same in all three, meaning- branch I am glad to see their rituals, so much similar to Hinduism(sanatana dharma). It is rare for us to see similar culture outside India. Happy to know about Lithunian culture.
I visited my Lithuanian ex's (damn shouldn't have lost her) mother in Plateliai which was so beautiful with lots of interesting things, her mother is a Pagan witchy type as well, the whole trip was beautiful and Vilnius is a very nice city.
Thank you for your visit in Lithuania, and the respect you showed :-) 👍 you are always welcome :-) now i am in Sweden but its sad i mised the midsomer fest in Sweden, i will shore be in Sweden the next year :-)
They worship just like us ! I'm so glad to know this thanks for uploading this video dear . I'm a hindu , I just searched and gotta know the language they speak is similar to sanskrit and our religion is almost same ! Wow ! Love from India.
Sorry to say, but our religion is very different than yours. Hinduism has many god and goddesses and ours has few. Lithuanian has been linked to ancient Sanskrit, however.
@@faithcross8109 What makes you think Lithuanian religion has few gods? Lack of historical records? The Hellenic people, who descended from the same Proto-Indo-European people as the Baltics, had many gods and we know of them almost exclusively from ancient records. Since Baltic records are so rare how do you know that they are exhaustive? Granted, Hinduism IS very different, but for different reasons. And it inherited many things from its Proto-Indo-European ancestor which is where their similarities come from.
@@Zzzzzzzzzzzz56 lol no most Indians despise Aryan Migration theory so there's no way Indians "desperately want to be linked with Whites" only a small minority does. Also, you don't seem to have any knowledge on this subject then why bring Whi-te supre-macy?
@@Survivethejive What's the name of the video so I can check it. We Bee Shamans acknowledge Lithuania's stamina in staying the course with keeping the spirits alive. It is good to see you back on here, good that youtube can be flexible too. :-)
I'm a Hindu and near my home is a small empty patch of land, with a cobras borrow in the center, the people in y locality offer milk to the snake as it is said to bring good luck, it is interesting to know that a similar culture exists in Lithuania
I am radically sympathetic with Paganism. It is part of who I am. But I know that reality-rejecting fantasy does not help anything. The history of European Paganism is overflowing with violence. Christianity did not bring violence to Europe as a new thing. The problem of violence and conflict is found in all human cultures and societies. I stand in defense of Paganism because of its real virtues that need to be preserved. But let's not pretend that anything is something that it isn't. Whatever path we choose to follow, we must make Reality our best friend.
Good sense comment which needed to be said. The demon we have to master is the one within us or it will wreak its dreadful works in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in and that culture shouldn't take all the blame.
We're not vexed. Because Europeans continued to kill each other AFTER Christ was born. And it wasn't because of Christianity that Europeans (2,000 years LATER) are not killing each other in great numbers anymore. It's called evolution. The most evolved people of northern European descent are actually SECULAR. But what's the most uneducated and violent Western civilization ? America; which is also the most religious and Christian. Oh, ANOTHER school shooting ? Let's pray about it, lol.
We have War Gods because we are a religion of peace. If you disagree then we’ll protest and show we are offended. You see, the War is internal, we would NEVER actually advocate violence.
It's interesting, the Romans has snake deities associated with their local cults of the home and land. They were in some way associated with the Lares, their hearth and home gods.
Thank you for this video, I had no idea that there was physical evidence that European Paganism survived so late in history. Why do most scholars say otherwise? The Teutonic Knights defeated at the hands of Pagans? How embarrassing! Great video, Take care.
tubifexgod - paganism is alive and well in Lithuania - an unbroken link to our ancestors. It was common to find observers of the old ways in the countryside well into the 20th century. Romuva (what Lithuanian paganism is now called) is experiencing a resurgence in Lithuania and the diaspora.
@@EsmereldaPea I believe it started in the at some point in the 1900’s or so but Lithuania was under occupation by the soviets and so they treated them as bad as modern day Jews by putting them in concentration camps.
I being a Hindu can relate soo much between Hinduism i.e sanatana dharma & peganism..especially the snake think..we have here a festival in Southern part of India where we go to anthill..worship it & offer milk to Naga i.e king cobra
how lovely, I would love to visit and take the kids their grandfather was Lithuanian it would be lovely to see and being a pagan myself I would definitely find it very interesting and so peaceful
What is the sacred book for paganism? Ans: Nature is a sacred book for all pagan culture. yes you can learn it, you can learn monogamy from Swans, Bald eagles, owls and cranes, You can learn selfless service from flowing rivers, from shade and fruit of a tree. Butterflies and bumblebees teach us to take as much as we need from nature. May God Agni (fire God) guide you. May God Surya (sun God) give you hope. 🙏🙏🙏❤️ From India🇮🇳
Kerala in South India is the home of the Great Snake Gods : Vasuki, Kadru, Swetha, Anantha and many others. The city of Thiru Anantha Puram ( anglicized to Trivandrum) in Kerala translates in English to His Holiness Anantha, the City (of).
Poland villages have pretty much the same thing - people still may consider themselves catholic, but it's basically full blown pagan traditions and customs, covered in judeo-christian mythology blanket. For example we still drown effigy of Marzanna in a river, so the spring may come. Church tried to ban this tradition for millenia, but looks like church is almost dead in poland - and the tradition is still here. Also all the sacred groves ale still considered important by local communities, we have certain customs when it comes to collecting or cutting certain trees, like bowing and asking the tree when collecting black lilac... When I think about it now, there's ridiculously huge amount of pagan traditions present.
Not really . Christianity is much more stronger and thriving after 1991 fall of Communism in Poland . In fact , Ironically Communists banning of Christianity made Christianity even more stronger in Poland.
I’ve seen some of the research into catastrophism which theorizes that the snakes seen on ancient structures represents comets that struck the earth and brought about the ice age around 12000 years ago. Humanity was just about wiped out.
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I'm glad that some local culture has survived all these centuries of cultural abuse.
in Poland christianisation took control through tortures, killing and destruction of indigenous culture, so sad, and it continues with its methods, Poland's history is filled with acts of Church's crimes, intrigues and manipulations
@Vasian Vasianich - Gee, I don't know... The pope owning brothels, the pope being a mafia don, worshiping of saints (which is only a Catholic thing and directly contradicts the bible), Catholics selling seats in heaven, etc. What he meant is according to the true spirit of Christianity. Catholicism is mainly Roman paganism with Jesus replacing Jupiter. In fact, there are prayers in Latin where God is called "Deus Patr" which was literally Zeus/Jupiter's actual title. Protestantism tried to get back to basics - to shed the gold and drop the "man made" stuff. The problem is it still had a lot of Catholic influence like Sunday worship, the trinity, etc. that are incompatible with the Judaic roots. So basically Protestants took a lie, tried to make it a truth and totally missed the mark. But what does it matter? All Abrahamic religions are poison.
Palmetto NDN Venerating is totally worshipping kek
I Hindus we save our culture from centuries.i am still Hindu.why Muslim and Christhan trying to convert whole world 😡
Christcucks, shitlibs and bolsheshits shall never destroy our faith!
im Latvian and I remember how my grandmother always used to go to great lengths not to harm the grass snakes (zalktis) in her garden. The same with spiders, bad luck to kill spiders
interesting. I have always loved snakes and spiders and would never harm either.
yea same in lithuania we don't kill spiders =D
onlysleeping66 haha must be a baltic thing
Same in Sweden. It means bad luck to kill spiders
I am to Latvian i had the same whit grandma "Ome" Never kill spider even in home take him out but dont kill. P.>S we dont have snakes were i live.
Vilnius is Lithuanian
Respect from Poland :) Lets stop hating eachother!
There is no reason to hate each other. Globalists don't want to see us united, this is why there is so much propaganda coming from polish and lithuanian news.
Wszechbyt Doskonały Hello's from lithuanian friend. We love Poland :)
Wilno has a Polish majority so how can it be Lithuanian ?
Wszechbyt Doskonały - long life Poland, long life Lithuania! 🤗😎👍🏼
emtuoba elgoog - well you had majority Jewish Warsaw, does that make it belong to Israel? Answer me this riddle 🧐😋
As a Hindu seeing the Lithuanians circled around the fire singing was eye-opening and quite profound.
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In Hindu faith, Fire is sacred. We use fire in our religious work, we use fire in wedding (Vedic weddings) and as an essential element of nature, it does play a great role in many other things.
If lietuvieši are anything like my latviešu family they sing this song till the flames stop, then they start running and jumping over the campfire if its to easy with holding hand with the ones they love if still to easy holding in their hands the one they love, if still to easy show off, then they feast and when you and the one you love is done eating you go off in to the forrest to look for the flower of the fern that if found lets you see treasure everywhere arround you but once you find it go home and never look back or you will go mad (if you indians have no connection to the land Im gona spell it out for you, ferns dont have flower the lovers go have sex and find children which lets them treasure them and the other things you have and once your a parrent there really is no looking back if you dont want to go mad), also no going to sleep before dawn.
In Sorbian tradition in Saxony you might find it too
@@surudog4929 fire(Agni) is one of the our god...In presence of fire we do worship and marriage. fire is holy for us in hindu vedic culture.
As a Slav, I feel very connceted to our Baltic cousins! Preserve your culture and be proud of it! Your style of singing reminds me much of ours! Also, your language remained much unchanged from our ancestral language... I wish you well, may your wonderful culture be preserved ❤❤
*_Labà dienà to all brothers from Lietuva!_*
I'm not Lithuanian, but you are my brother, as the Lithuanian people. We are a part of the big family now called Europeans.
Hell Freyr!
Labàs
In slang we say laba for a free/rest day in Poland.
Off the work
Lithuanian, Baltic mythology is probably my second favorite along with Slavic mythology.They aer very similar, in the way they feel,the Forest atmosphere within. Greetings to Baltic cousins from a Slav.
They really are and two of their gods have similar names: Perkūnas-Perun they’re both the gods of thunder
@@geeruku_plinsu we have a town named Veles
What books do you recommend about Baltic mythology?
@@parrotjunglecolada8270 books by Marija Gimbutas are quite informative
@@WitcherGerd Perkūnas-Perun they’re both the gods of thunder ??? What do you mean by Both? Perun is only simplyfied version of Perkūnas. name Perun itself has no meaning, but all pagan gods had meaningful names like PerKūnas=Through the Body in Lithuanian. So Perkūnas and even Perun has nothing to Slavs
I'm from Latvija and I love my Lithuanian brothers and sisters. I would definitely recommend a trip to Latvija during Jāņi (summer solstice) it's by far my favorite holiday and it still retains most of its pagan roots (Dievturība).
Filthy Heretic Hello to you from lithuanian sister! I second that, Latvia is really worth visiting at least once in lifetime.
Filthy Heretic - long live Semigalians and and Latgalians and other baltic tribes!!!
@@bizbite2 Zemgaļi latgaļi* do not use the german names it is insulting.
Kādēļ sevi saukt par Filthy Heretic? To man laikam nesaprast.
@@lockandloadlikehell Hahahahahaha
My great-grandmother always told us young ones that we Lithuanians are children of nature. Perhaps she was right all along...
We all are. Nature game before gods. If you want to worship something, you are better off worshiping nature.
Well yes you are part of nature in same way as nature is part of you
Thank you very much Thomas.
This was a lovely watch.
Greetings from South Africa.
Lithuania looks a lot like Nova Scotia, where I'm from, its really flat and forested and filled with lakes, probably similar weather too. Nice post, I always found it really cool how preserved the old beliefs are in those Baltic countries.
***** They should have called it Nova Lithuania then!
Survive the Jive hahaha considering It looks nothing like Scotland, I agree!
***** yes in Pangea Lithuania was connected to denmark nova scotia and some other areas scotland and ireland were more northern
Yes the landscape is very similar. I'm from Dartmouth, haven't been in Cape Breton for a long time, I've been thinking about going for a drive up that way
I'm from New Brunswick there are many Heathens around in both NS and NB. If you guys .aybe want to meet up feel free to message me.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are all amazing, each having retained so much of their prehistoric culture... it's why I moved to the Baltic area, and love the wildness. Laima protect !!!
If you are not a latvietis and live Latvijā, GET OUT! Our land for our people and no one else. You are free to visit but not stay for too long.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
No, I live north of you.
But consider this. I've just googled the numbers and, according to statistics, around 500 British live full time in Latvia... but 100,000 Latvians live in Britain, and they're all welcome.
So, what's your problem ?
@@cuhurun Hmm. How do I give my responce to you?
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 :
There's no need to respond at all.
@@cuhurun But seriously how do I respond youtube deletes everything I write?
Greetings from Lithuania, thank you for this video!
How can one not love this channel? You are amazing! Thank you for one more precious vid. I already knew of the Lithuanian Romuva (and the Latvian Dievturiba!) but it´s always refreshing to see videos about them and be able to share them so many more get to know about this ancient tradition!
I'm a descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to the United states. Growing up I never truly learned about the lithuanian culture my father's family descended from. I've recently began to learn about the culture and old faith, and it makes me proud to know part of me comes from this land. The crusaders work remains undone, let it never be finished.
This is my exact situation, my great grandfather came immigrated from Lithuania and the other side of my family is a total mix of Germanic and Baltic countries, and amercian culture and its Christianity is one of the last things I'd want to spiritually connect myself too and follow. I've always just stuck to the belief that nature is so much more than it seems and if there are any gods they will all be found within the nature we live in. Finally finding something that I can connect with that's actually apart of my blood and family history is relieving in a way
I’m also a descendant of Lithuanian immigrants in the US ❤️
Beautiful video :-)
Cheers from Sweden
Incredible, what an awesome video. Thanks. From Canada
Beautiful video! Greetings from Japan!
thanks
As a Indian pagan please keep save ur beautiful culture and Tradition … Lots of respect to u Lithuania 🇱🇹 ❤️❤️❤️
We will, thank you my indian brother!
@@frost6471 I'm really sorry to hear that. We won by accepting their religion officially, but still preserving our culture locally. Our pagan brothers Prussians from the Baltic tribes were completely wiped out because they refused to surrender and convert to christianity. I can only hope and wish you victory over those barbarians. Stay strong, brother!
@Vhisper and if any query how the worship to revive your Religion,We Hindus always present to guidelines you.
Pretty cool. I am not anti-Christian or something...but I do somehow feel this pretty strong attraction to Pagan believes and I am really proud that Lithuania preserved our Pagan culture so that even today we have active Pagan community.
Even our Christianity is very much intertwined with Pagan culture.
But exactly the Pagan culture, music, and mythology, ornaments, is something I feel somehow very close to...and something that is really ours and it never was forgotten.
We never had our own country trying to destroy Pagan culture or enforce Christianity.
@@Vhisper just like the Norse. What was done to them was pure evil. There's most things that you won't find in a typical history book as it goes it's ( His story) love all my pagan brothers, sisters
So cool! Keep it alive folks! Never let the past be forgotten. Thanks for sharing this with us out here in south Alabama USA ☮️❤️
A very interesting reportage on Lithuania's ancient tradition. Not many people are aware that it was the last country in Europe to convert to Christianity. We have interviewed some Lithuanian expats in the US and it was quite insightful to realize their nature, traditions and culture goes on even in distant lands. Cheers!
This is was a great video, really nice to watch :) I'm from Lithuania myself, officialy a christian, but I've always liked paganism and the old ways more :) I hope you had a great time here :)
appreciate you spreading the word of our culture. Lithuania is a very little known country outside of europe that has so many wonderful secrets to share for those who care to look.
YOU ARE LIKE THE PAGAN ATTENBOROUGH.
YOU SHOULD BE ON DISCOVERY OR NAT GEO OR BBC OR SOMETHING!
far better than half the stufd on today.
+Babylonian Hebrew Thanks mate
Europe was pagan and it was beautiful.
Abhinandan Zambare so what the languages are related indo european migrations and all
Every Paganism gangster until the Teutonic come.
Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic order
Yes I know there is a deep ties between Lithuanian and sanskrit languages, even today Lithuanian is the language closer to sanskrit in its modern form, if we speak of European languages.
They are native.real European who are peaceful.like we hindus.we are Aryan world oldest living civilization ✌
Last pagans of Europe!!! Long live pagans of Europe, the original and true religion of Europe!!! Long life Perkunas!!! Long life Thor!!
bizbite2 paganism isn’t a religion, do you mean Romuva?
the Mari people in Russia (a finno Ugric people living in its own republic west of the Urals) are the last pagans of Europe
@master universe pagans by the way is derogatory term used by Christians to call all politheistic religions
@shaz thats also a cult.
Paganism includes everything other than monotheism.
Lithuania has one of the oldest European languages :)
Cicero true story, barely changed in the last 4000 years.
Lithuanian language is third of oldest world languages. I'm from Lithuania by the way😀😀
@@skau2 third is not oldest but still rather old! Good job BROTHER!
Hellenic: Am I a joke to you?
Lithuanian language is arhaic , but live language.
In India also milk offered to snakes..... On naagpanchami(five days of 🐍 snake)
and elsewhere too survivethejive.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-milk-drinking-serpent.html
@SUMIT GHOSH Jesus was a demon... so it's Xtianity which is satanic
@SUMIT GHOSH your god raped a lady to give birth to Jesus.
@@Survivethejive in rural Odisha we used grass ,milk, flowers, leave, for worship
@Andrew Ghosh i think u r rice bag convert.
Survive the Jive I wasn't aware of the beauty of Lithuania thank you for this video.
What is meaning jive in Lithuania ..? In Sanskrit life ,
How could you not. Baltija stayed europian for longest.
In fact my family prides isself grately on having never converted to chystianity, how many others can say that?
I was a pagan. This has renewed my interest in it. There are a few of us here. We all worked at the same place.
+Stephen Williams Glad to hear it
Do pagans of Europe ,worships the sun??
@@infinity8288 yes, the sun has been very respected and important part of the old religions, Lithuania had a strong Sun cult in the old days. Sun gives light, life, warmth and hope, I believe it holds a special place in every humans subconscious
This is why I like coming back to your old videos Thomas.
Beautiful, inspiring and timeless...
Please, never stop!
Thank you for this little film..what a beautiful country, lakes and forests..people close to their folk traditions
My family is Lithuanian on both sides , would love to know if there are more videos you recommend.
same
plenty of them. Just use secret search keyword "Lithuania" or "Lithuanian" ;)
Simply, a beautiful little video. Praise the old gods!
It's soon the midsummer celebrations here in Sweden. Most people will drink cheap beer and play football. I'll will celebrate for real.
One can never allow oneself to lose their culture, traditions and beliefs. Those are priced in societies that are at peace with itself and keeps the people grounded and humble.
What a lovely video. It's wonderful to see people holding on to the old ways and old gods of their countries and ancestors. Blessed be!
Best video about Lithuania 🇱🇹!
This is so different to what you see in the UK where Paganism has been pushed out to the fringes to be mainly practised by people from the counter culture, which is great but brings with it, it's own problems, mainly counter culture ideas and attitudes that have nothing to do with Paganism. Great to see s true community following the old ways, looks very authentic....
I'D LOVE TO VISIT WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER & GREAT GRANDFATHER CAME FROM 🇱🇹
My great ancestors were pagans, why should i be catholic now??
I know my brother my great ancestor fought off the Franks to defend Frisia
***** wel its hard to forget wen you live there
you shouldn't. That is the beauty of freedom- you may choose :)
Dutch frisians ? There are german frisians too, Eala Frya Fresena !
Could be worse, you could be protestant. At least Catholicism borrows heavily from paganism.
So impressed that you visited Lithuania to make video about ancient baltic and lithuanian paganism, big like from me
Diewa = Deva = Deus = Zeus = Tiwaz = Tyr
Its the same name. Hail Europa!
Wolkenjäger Du hast Ziu vergessen. Südgermanisch für Tyr/Teiwaz
Wolkenjäger Dievs - in Latvian
Wolkenjäger deva in hindi/sankrit
Wolkenjäger ...hail Jesus Christ...the only way to God...
Loddfafnisodr ... brother I don't hate pagans or their way of life...God has given freedom as a gift to all mankind ... everybody is free to chose his way by comparing and scrutinizing...and Jesus said that he is way truth and life...all who believe him will live forever...no other pagan or monotheistic figure has claimed the claims which Jesus has made.
Love from Nepal. We also dance in circle and sing the song together around the fire but we usually do this at night time.
Love from England! I love your respect for your ancestors! Xxxx
Well if you visited Lithuania, you are welcome to visit Estonia too. Just give me a heads up, ill prepare the homebrew in honour of Tharapita.
I visited Estonia in 2010 and i interviewed the metal band called Tharaphita survivethejive.blogspot.se/2010/04/tharaphita-estonian-pagan-metal.html
Im having both my mind blown and heart bleeding watching this, realizing how the roots and origins of me had been corrupted by the Western culture...
In my early 20s i left the country due to politics and dysfunctional society, majority of people mentality is toxic. I've grown so much hate and rejection to Lithuania. Yet, now 20 years later my searching of dharma (darna in lithuanian) is bringing me back....home....
u r on the right track, mate ;)
My Lithuanian brothers and sisters do not let Globalism and today's sad times destroy our culture and country and its people! We don't need to be culturaly enriched from other countries! We don't want to become like Germany, Sweden or London uk!
Even , those places are slowly changing, as the slow grinding wheel.
I wish my swedish brothers would stop their nihilism and come to their sences like their norwegian and danish brothers and sisters. I think it will happen, just very slowly.
@Thomas Anderson dead and gone. Yet I see it everyday.
Are you trolling? :(
@Thomas Anderson Then I read the rest of your comment. Yeah your trolling. Good day troll.
Paganism is much more beautiful than Christianity.
Yeah
Paganism is more beautiful then any religion especially islam
@@greengiant1017 dang dude chill
@@lonleybeer what? Tell me what i said was incorrect?
@@greengiant1017 of course every religion is better than a cult centered on a book full of murderous injunctions, towards non Muslims, called Harbi, which include pagans, Hindus and Buddhists
your channel has got such a following now i cant even find my old comment. so i will just say. this is the video that really made me watch the rest of your work. such great stuff. living history.
Paganism is such a beautiful and peaceful ideology.
No wonder Hindus preserved all the wildlife of the Indian subcontinent by worshiping them..
In fact Jainism takes animal protection altogether to an another level, Jain monks walking on the road sweep their path to avoid killing of ants & insects...
Apolón Izmus yes fuck globalist Christianity
hünde? du solltest definitiv dein deutsch verbessern. don't insult people in languages you aren' t fluent with. please!
don' t feed the troll.
Turi Caederynmab right because everyone knows Druids never did ritualistic sacrifices of humans.
Awesome video!!!😁💪👏👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it
my beautiful country
Thank You, I will put it onto my Must Visit List....
Thank you for sharing the scenery and customs of the Lithuanian people! -United States:)
My grandparents were among the lithuanian jews who fled the war and came to the United States. Fascinating to know my ancestors were actually invited in by Lithuania's king all those centuries ago.
Glad to see that my european brothers are returning to their ancestral culture! My best wishes with all of you. 🙏
Recently I saw an interview of Lithuanian diplomat in India where he told how Hindi and Lithuanian language both originated from Sanskrit and have many similar words.
Devas (L) - Dev/devta (H) from Dev (Sanskrit); meaning- diety/God
Ugnes (L) - Agni (H) from Agney (S); meaning- Fire
Shakha same in all three, meaning- branch
I am glad to see their rituals, so much similar to Hinduism(sanatana dharma). It is rare for us to see similar culture outside India. Happy to know about Lithunian culture.
That's a really pristine spot you've found :) If you're ever going to come here again, you should go to Neringa
***** I went from Latvia all the way south to the Belarus border,but only on eastern side of the country.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, it's very educating. It puts some lights ion a part of our history that I had very small knowledge of.
Got 25 percent Baltic in my DNA , want to know more .
me too
So come to Lithuania. Or Latvia :)
So you are not baltic. Atleast in my family you would have to be 95% baltic and 100% europian to be considered one of us.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 stop all this nonsense
@@irmaslap1607 A nation is defined by blood language and culture, he has none.
What a fantastic thing to see.
I visited my Lithuanian ex's (damn shouldn't have lost her) mother in Plateliai which was so beautiful with lots of interesting things, her mother is a Pagan witchy type as well, the whole trip was beautiful and Vilnius is a very nice city.
If you are not lietuvietis you should not have a lietuviešu wife.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 ???
@@buildinasentry1046 Children are best off when their parrents are of the same nation.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 As 1/4 Lithuanian, nah.
Thank you for your visit in Lithuania, and the respect you showed :-) 👍 you are always welcome :-) now i am in Sweden but its sad i mised the midsomer fest in Sweden, i will shore be in Sweden the next year :-)
That was a nice watch and pretty informational, thanks a lot!
hank0rz no probem, thank you
I enjoyed this video immensely
They worship just like us ! I'm so glad to know this thanks for uploading this video dear . I'm a hindu , I just searched and gotta know the language they speak is similar to sanskrit and our religion is almost same ! Wow ! Love from India.
Sorry to say, but our religion is very different than yours. Hinduism has many god and goddesses and ours has few. Lithuanian has been linked to ancient Sanskrit, however.
@@faithcross8109 What makes you think Lithuanian religion has few gods? Lack of historical records? The Hellenic people, who descended from the same Proto-Indo-European people as the Baltics, had many gods and we know of them almost exclusively from ancient records. Since Baltic records are so rare how do you know that they are exhaustive?
Granted, Hinduism IS very different, but for different reasons. And it inherited many things from its Proto-Indo-European ancestor which is where their similarities come from.
@@faithcross8109 they desperately want to be linked to whites. It's thing with them always seeking validation from whites
@@Zzzzzzzzzzzz56 lol no most Indians despise Aryan Migration theory so there's no way Indians "desperately want to be linked with Whites" only a small minority does. Also, you don't seem to have any knowledge on this subject then why bring Whi-te supre-macy?
I know very little about Lithuania or its culture, this was a helpful introduction.
If migrants enter such a place. Down come the forests up come the estates
My people are from Finland,and that sounds so close to our old Pagan songs!
Bee Shamanism which is extremely old is also practiced in Lithuania. There is actually a Bee Hive Museum there too.
Yes I showed it in this film and another video about the bee goddess
@@Survivethejive What's the name of the video so I can check it. We Bee Shamans acknowledge Lithuania's stamina in staying the course with keeping the spirits alive. It is good to see you back on here, good that youtube can be flexible too. :-)
You should visit Lithuania for some live, unfiltered mead.
This is si beautiful, we should ask them about how we can reconstruc the ancient religion
nice work! By the way you should visit this new park called 'baltu mitologijos' near Palanga.
Thank you for blessing us with this video
I'm a Hindu and near my home is a small empty patch of land, with a cobras borrow in the center, the people in y locality offer milk to the snake as it is said to bring good luck, it is interesting to know that a similar culture exists in Lithuania
survivethejive.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-milk-drinking-serpent.html
Thank you, hope your video get the greater more attention they deserve. Good luck
The name of the sun goddess Saule sounds a lot like Sol
Saule literal means the sun now. And was the goddess of the sun.
ONE & THE SAME...
Indoeuropean roots
sūrya: the ancient Indian Sun God in Sanskrit language
And surya
Great video!
This is just beautiful
this is a great channel
I am radically sympathetic with Paganism. It is part of who I am. But I know that reality-rejecting fantasy does not help anything. The history of European Paganism is overflowing with violence. Christianity did not bring violence to Europe as a new thing. The problem of violence and conflict is found in all human cultures and societies. I stand in defense of Paganism because of its real virtues that need to be preserved. But let's not pretend that anything is something that it isn't. Whatever path we choose to follow, we must make Reality our best friend.
Good sense comment which needed to be said. The demon we have to master is the one within us or it will wreak its dreadful works in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in and that culture shouldn't take all the blame.
Wow so woke teach me
Amen......oops, :).
We're not vexed.
Because Europeans continued to kill each other AFTER Christ was born.
And it wasn't because of Christianity that Europeans (2,000 years LATER) are not killing each other in great numbers anymore.
It's called evolution.
The most evolved people of northern European descent are actually SECULAR.
But what's the most uneducated and violent Western civilization ? America; which is also the most religious and Christian.
Oh, ANOTHER school shooting ? Let's pray about it, lol.
We have War Gods because we are a religion of peace. If you disagree then we’ll protest and show we are offended. You see, the War is internal, we would NEVER actually advocate violence.
It's interesting, the Romans has snake deities associated with their local cults of the home and land. They were in some way associated with the Lares, their hearth and home gods.
check out,one of the legends,that Poleamonids,comes to Lithuania ...
Thank you for this video, I had no idea that there was physical evidence that European Paganism survived so late in history. Why do most scholars say otherwise? The Teutonic Knights defeated at the hands of Pagans? How embarrassing! Great video, Take care.
tubifexgod - paganism is alive and well in Lithuania - an unbroken link to our ancestors. It was common to find observers of the old ways in the countryside well into the 20th century. Romuva (what Lithuanian paganism is now called) is experiencing a resurgence in Lithuania and the diaspora.
@@EsmereldaPea I believe it started in the at some point in the 1900’s or so but Lithuania was under occupation by the soviets and so they treated them as bad as modern day Jews by putting them in concentration camps.
Beautiful RUclipsr, beautiful Lithuania.
I being a Hindu can relate soo much between Hinduism i.e sanatana dharma & peganism..especially the snake think..we have here a festival in Southern part of India where we go to anthill..worship it & offer milk to Naga i.e king cobra
Sanātana Dharma
how lovely, I would love to visit and take the kids their grandfather was Lithuanian it would be lovely to see and being a pagan myself I would definitely find it very interesting and so peaceful
I didn't know any of this about Lithuania. Is Latvia similar? What about the Sami of Northern Scandinavia?
+T Riddle Latvia is similar but Sami is totally unrelated.
Greetings and love from Lithuania
Beautiful
A beautiful sight !
What is the sacred book for paganism?
Ans: Nature is a sacred book for all pagan culture. yes you can learn it, you can learn monogamy from Swans, Bald eagles, owls and cranes,
You can learn selfless service from flowing rivers, from shade and fruit of a tree.
Butterflies and bumblebees teach us to take as much as we need from nature.
May God Agni (fire God) guide you.
May God Surya (sun God) give you hope.
🙏🙏🙏❤️ From India🇮🇳
Kad tave Perkunas, Ugne ir Sotvaras.
agnis (अग्निः) - ugnis (fire), vajus (वायु:) - vėjas((wind), aśru (अश्रु:) - ašara(tear), aśvā (अश्वा) - ašva, kumelė, kūrmas (कूर्म:) - kurmis, ratha (रथ:) - ratas (circle), devas देव:) - Dievas(god), navyas (नव्य:) - naujas(new"), madhu (मधु) - medus(honey), vīra (वीर:) - didvyris(hero), svapnas (स्वप्न:) - sapnas(dreams), sanas (सन:) - senas(old), sravati (स्रवति) - srovena, śvaśuras (श्वशुर:) - šešuras, sūnus (सूनु:) - sūnus(son) Sanskrit and Lithuanian have many similarities
Moved here from USA, I love it here
Kerala in South India is the home of the Great Snake Gods : Vasuki, Kadru, Swetha, Anantha and many others. The city of Thiru Anantha Puram ( anglicized to Trivandrum) in Kerala translates in English to His Holiness Anantha, the City (of).
Poland villages have pretty much the same thing - people still may consider themselves catholic, but it's basically full blown pagan traditions and customs, covered in judeo-christian mythology blanket. For example we still drown effigy of Marzanna in a river, so the spring may come. Church tried to ban this tradition for millenia, but looks like church is almost dead in poland - and the tradition is still here. Also all the sacred groves ale still considered important by local communities, we have certain customs when it comes to collecting or cutting certain trees, like bowing and asking the tree when collecting black lilac... When I think about it now, there's ridiculously huge amount of pagan traditions present.
Not really . Christianity is much more stronger and thriving after 1991 fall of Communism in Poland .
In fact , Ironically Communists banning of Christianity made Christianity even more stronger in Poland.
Lithuania is so beautiful
How beautiful!!
Love from India ♥️♥️♥️♥️
May the pagans of the world unite 💪
thank you for visiting my country.
Beautiful place 🥀
I’ve seen some of the research into catastrophism which theorizes that the snakes seen on ancient structures represents comets that struck the earth and brought about the ice age around 12000 years ago. Humanity was just about wiped out.