Lithuanian mythology

pagan religion

religion of pre-Christian Lithuanians

temple

mythological serpent from Lithuanian folklore

thumb|Lizdeika interpreting the dream of Gediminas, by Michał Elwiro Andriolli, 1882

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Sovij () is a character in a Baltic myth recorded in the Russian translation of Chronography by the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas (1261). According to the myth, Sovij was the instigator of the ancient Baltic tradition of burning the deceased and the subsequent rituals of sacrifice for the Baltic gods of Andajus, Perkūnas, Žvorūnė, and Teliavelis. His other purpose was also the escort of dead souls to the underworld, akin to the ancient Egyptian Anubis and ancient Greek Charon.

Anapilis is a fictional mountain, allegedly the place of the afterlife in the pagan mythology of ancient Lithuanians.

Vocal folk music in Baltic languages, preserved in Lithuania and Latvia