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OBRAZ KOSMOSU U DAWNYCH BAŁTÓW
THE PICTURE OF TIIE UNIVERSE OF THE ANCIENT BALTS

Author(s): Libertas Klimka, Vytautas Straižys
Contributor(s): Monika Żuk (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: the ancient Balts; the origin of the world; the structure of the world; the universe

Summary/Abstract: The article presents views of the ancient Balts on the structure and origin of the world, reconstructed on the basis of archeological excavation sites, folklore, mythology and linguistic data. Four to five thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Lithuanians and Latvians had already developed views, based on religious and mythological beliefs, on the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the origin and structure of the world. Their interest in the universe then developed into astronomical observations, a search for regularities in celestial phenomena and the development of a calendar.

  • Issue Year: 11/1999
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 139-164
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish
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