Lithuanian Mythology Part 3: The World Tree
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Welcome to part 3 of our series on Lithuanian mythology!
In this episode we tell the story of the World Tree, Pasaulio medis.
Pasaulio medis binds and unifies all the planes of existence, with roots deep into the Underworld, and branches into the Celestial realms.
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Marvelous! It's opening a new path to unknown. We are looking forward to hearing of more ancient baltic traditions. Thanks!
Thank you soo much! Great material and Beautiful videos! Being Lithuanian and studying Vedic astrology, Runes, world creation and so on …I found so many similarities in Lithuanian pagan mythology…just up until now, I like to joke “we, Lithuanians come from some different star system where the Sun is feminine Goddess, where in most world mythologies Sun ☀️ is the masculine God.
Thank you once more!!! Super interesting!
Really enjoying this series
funny pronuncation, but nice video still! In my Latvian school I remember us teaching about this world tree that we Latvians call ''Austras tree'' with similar concept, and the leaves were made from silver, roots from copper and branches from gold. Excited for the next video! :D
How interesting! In a future video we will discuss different interpretations and definitely include this one. Glad you are enjoying the series, there are still many more to come 🙂
Are You noticed that Pasaulis=World literaly means Po Saule=Under the Sun or Palei Saule=Aside the Sun?
This video is awesome. Thank you!!
"Pasaulio Medis" sounded strange with emphasis on different letter :) Cheers
Very good, thank you
I know it should not bug me that much, because what you do is amazing and I am very happy that I get content about lithuanian mythology, but the bad pronunciation distracts me from the story sometimes.
So here is my bad attempt at explaining how words should sound through text.
pasaulio - pas (puss) + au sounds like ou from the word "sound" + lio (this one is difficult to explain. "L" is soft and it is followed by "o" from the word choped). Medis sounded fine. Your version of the word Velnias sounded more like Vilnius. Velnias - Vel (e is longer like from the word sad or pal) + ness, like Tess or Chess. Your Version of Dievas sounds like Dyvas. Dievas - Die (ie sounds like ye frome yes a litle bit) + vas.
Im glad that pronunciation of Saulė was fixed from the last video.
My recomendation going forward would be to ask lithuanian speakers to send recordings of lithuanian words youll use. I hope it helped a little :)
Heh thanks. Our goal isn't to make you suffer, we'll try and get our understandings more verified but it's a challenge. Please forgive us. We'll also do a funny video at the end about this journey.
citing sources would be kind
At the end of the series there will be a video that discusses research, methodology, approaches and contentions.
Scenario recreated in Warcraft game
Have you noticed the world tree playing Elden Ring?
Isn't this world tree only present in Latvian mythology or also in Lithuanian mythology?
Lithuanian and Latvian mithology are the same, there are almoust no differences, but lithuanian version is more popular in the world, so when talking about baltic mythology lithuanian version is often used. It's mainly because Lithuania was larger and stronger than Latvia, Lithuania built an empire while Latvia was a part of teutonic order.
Your pronunciation is incomprehensible to a Lithuanian speaker
I've been wondering if Baltic people would be okay with foreigners believing in their religion, because it's just so beautiful. What do you think Baltic people would say?
As a lithuanian - Yes, of course, there is a movement of baltic religion in Lithuania called Romuva, but if you are not lithuanian it's still ok, you can believe in whatever religion you wan't!
In fact that's very easy just when you go to the forest pray to Medeina, you can leave first mushroom to it then it will bring you more mushrooms or if you have a nice campfire pray to Gabija and fire would be warmer or if there is a bad weather pray to Perkūnas and he will stop. Just talk with nature there isn't such a thing as ,,god'' in our mythology all gods are nature like Gabija is fire, but not god of fire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_mythology