Fun fact - 10 years ago I recolored Captain America in Lithuanian colors and symbols for a meme site and most famous Lithuanian rapper became obsessed with it and he still dresses in Captain Lithuania costume to spread the message of patriotism
The double cross (Patriarchal cross/Cross of Lorraine) was given to Jogaila as a dynastic symbol because he had to denounce his Gediminid ancestry (read as: not christian) and he married Jadwiga of Poland who was from a Hungarian dynasty. Cross of Lorraine features in Hungary since like year 1000. Also Vytis used to have the Columns of Gediminas on the shield before the Double Cross of Jogaila.
Double cross in fact is a "Hungarian cross", Duke Jogaila only added it on a shield of "Vytis" after he married a Hungarian princess Hedwig (Jadwiga) who was at the time Queen of Poland,. This Double cross is still symbol and part of coat of arms of Hungary.
@@agneki574 Nežinot, kad Jadvyga buvo Vengrė dar nieko tokio, bet kodėl Lenkijos karalių (taip, Jadvygos oficialus titulas buvo karalius) įsivaizdavot kaip Lietuvę?
Love all of them but my fave would be pagan "runes". The pattern is so nice. Also I'd have a suggestion- look into "Dainu svente", that event is really cool
Thanks for the video! And if you do choose to make one for the anthem, then do please take note of the unofficial ones too, such as 'Lietuva Brangi' and 'Lietuvninkais (Prussian Lithuanians) esame mes gimę' , and their significance to us. After all, Lietuva Brangi is sung every February 16th, at the Signatarų Namai. Take care!
Many countries distinguish between an 'official' or 'state' flag and a 'national' or 'civic' flag. In a way it would be great for the Vytis flag to be the state flag because it's good heraldry and because it simply is the national coat of arms on a flag (a so-called 'banner'). Byt it's my impression that its use is more limited. What is its exact status?
7:25 You see more of Žalgiris everywhere because it's not a team just of Kaunas. It's a team of all Lithuania. It's a quest for you to figure out why ;)
so, before I begin, let's get the obligatory BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!!! out of the way :) Loved this video! Very cool! The Audimas stuff is my ABSOLUTE favorite stuff!! I have so many coats, jackets, hats, shirts, ect ect - they ALL tend to incorporate many of the symbols either quite overtly or more subtly (sometimes hiding in pockets, or just faint outlines). The Vytis is my favorite symbol, something very strong about it, but the Pillars of Gediminas are very cool because they can be subtly added to things (like logos :) ) and it becomes almost like a secret handshake. I wastch a youtube channel (mabe you've heard of it?) called Lithuania Explained - he makes great use of this 'secret handshake' in his logo - not as 'strong' as the Vytis, but a very cool logo and story behind it
I strongly balieve that Vytis would be a far better flag for Lithuania, since it has far more historical significance and meaning than the tricolour. The anthem aswell, there were several that were suggested and the other option sounded better, if not better, then unique, since todays anthem is quite boring when it comes to sound, I guess the less complicated one with a simpler rythm was chosen to he more easily sung and remembered
Personally as an American, I believe Vytis in its shield should superimposed on the tri-color. Thus adding a combination and continuation of Lithuania's long and beautiful history.
This has much deeper significanse than just choosing a color of the flag. By creating a new one we said that we leave our history as it was. We have no future claim on the historical lands. We have a historical flag to remember and celebrate. Tricolor based on nationality aims for the future.
Vytis is too complicated to draw it by hand. The Tricolour symbolises the Republic and the modern Lithuanian nation. People died for it in the Independence Wars, the anti-Soviet Resistance and 1991 thus it would be inapporopriate to just abandon it. I think that having the Tricolour and Vytis at the same time is the best option.
Lithuanians as the last pagans in Europe, have deep roots in ancient religious traditions. Very early on, Perkūnas was imagined as a horseman, and archaeological findings testify to Lithuanians having amulets with horsemen as far back as the 10th-11th centuries. They were previously buried with their horses, which were sacrificed during pagan rituals. It is likely that these horses carried the deceased to burial sites. Lithuanian mythologists believe that the bright rider on a white horse symbolizes the ghost of an ancestral warrior, reflecting core values and goals, providing strength and courage. White horse had a sacred meaning for the Balts. My opinion Vytis is a great symbol not only for Lithuanians or those with Baltic roots, but also a great symbol for anyone willing to fight for freedom.
Let me share you a story, how I almost accidentally learned all colors of a Lithuanian flag by heart: I was watching one recent video from tripoint in Vištytis/Wisztyniec/Виштынец, which connects Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Since Russia does not belong to Schengen, the tripoint has cameras installed and warning signs builded. There is one particular sign between Lithuania and Russia that is getting old and "worn out", where colors are dissolving due to their age. There is a Lithuanian flag, Polish flag and Russian flag and yellow color of a Lithuanian flag was so dissolved, it seemed that there was no color at all and I said to myself something like this: "Wow, the yellow is almost gone, now it looks like Bulgarian flag, hilarious!". With this very logic, I just imagine a Bulgarian flag, where instead of a white color, there is yellow one...and I have Lithuania! Of course, do not be nitpicky, there are minor differences, I am aware of that.
When I was a kid I always found it so funny how people always explained our flag like “the yellow represents the sun and hope ☀️ 😊 the green is the grass and the fields 🌲💚 and the red means blood …🗡️🩸 😈”. Okay, if I’m being honest they might have said that it also means bravery and our fight for freedom, but I already made the joke so now I can’t go back.😊🔪
Vytis (feminine) = English the Chase = slavic Pohonia. And this symbol is not only in Belarus, but also quite common in say Ukraine, incorporated into coats of arms of many noblemen families
Feminine? Vytis is a masculine noun, it's inflected as other masculine nouns that end in -is (kirtis, Rytis, papartis, kàrtis, jautis, plautis and so on).
@@blueeyedbaer Vytis can mean many things. Vytis - armed rider ir man's name is masculine. But in herb for the longest it was Vytis as in Chase, then it is feminine. In First Lithuanian Republic it was the latter, and most close to what Pohonia mean in slav languages. But you right in a way that apparently circa 2000s the official recommendations for dictionary indeed turned the tide to masculine version of Vytis accentuating only the rider and not the action coded into herb. So my bad :) my school days long in the past
@@CompassionAndSincerity išsiplauk galvą su savo propagandos paranoja. "Po 1569 m. Liublino unijos, kai susikūrė bendra Lenkijos ir Lietuvos valstybė, dar vadinta Abiejų Tautų Respublika, oficialiai buvo patvirtintas jungtinis naujos valstybės herbas: keturių laukų skyde buvo įstrižai pakartoti abiejų šalių simboliai - Erelis ir Vytis. XVI a. viduryje lenkų heraldika Lietuvos herbui suteikė „Pogoń, Pogonia, Pogończyk“ vardą. Ieškodamas šiam terminui lietuviško atitikmens, Konstantinas Sirvydas XVII a. nurodė dvi jo reikšmes: „waykitoias“ (jei kalbama apie asmenį) ir „waykimas“ (jei kalbama apie veiksmą)." "Manoma, kad žodį „vytis“ XIX a. viduryje sukūrė Simonas Daukantas, tačiau šiuo žodžiu jis apibūdino ne herbą, o jame vaizduojamą raitelį. Vytimi Lietuvos herbą bene pirmasis pavadino Mikalojus Akelaitis 1884 m. laikraštyje „Aušra“. Iš pradžių herbas vadintas Vytimi, o nuo XX a. 4-ojo dešimtmečio - Vyčiu. " taip kad pirma Vytis/Pohonia, o tik po to Vytis/raitelis Šaltinis www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=38110&p_k=1
The Lithuanians technically stole much from them as well. The Lithuanian language didn't have a written form until around the 16th century (I think), so they adopted Ruthenian (the ancestor to modern Belarusian and Ukrainian) as the official language, with records being written in it and much of the nobility speaking it as well.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS "stole much" please elaborate what Lithuanians stole from you ? 😀 Simple question - And why If as some Belarussians claim that the Ruthenian language is theirs "Old Belarussian" language, so why don't they use the old Ruthenian coat of arms - a golden lion? 🤡 Problem is that you are attempting to apply modern nation-states (which is construct of 19th century) concepts of rule (also in your other comments) to medieval administrative processes. 😀 First of all Lithuanian language is older than russian. The Ruthenian they used was mixed with Lithuanian words. If a Ruthenian language was adapted and used by Lithuanian rulers administration, it could be considered at some level as part of Lithuanian culture at that time. It's important to note that during that historical period, there was no such state known as Belarussia. Belarussia at best can be a derivative of Lithuania and Galicia-Volhynia, and by no means the other way around. "stole" "begged" - Such claims are chauvinistic slander invented by ruskies aimed at undermining Lithuania's history and hate speech against Lithuanians. Lithuanians have enriched their neighbors with land, rulers and history. If you doubt this, consider the maps from various centuries showing Lithuania shrinking. Yet hydronyms in Belarussia are from Lithuanian words not Ruthenian (for example in Naugardas, Ašmena and others in the Nemunas basin). Lithuanian rule was indeed a blessing and freedom, Lithuanians embraced local customs and beliefs, representing a remarkably progressive approach to governance for that era. People from neighboring countries fled to Lithuania in search of safety. Something similar happening now. Yet as we can see that ruski mir is incapable to learn Lithuanian, even after 10 or 30 years living in Vilnius. The narrative you promote is created by ruski mir and adapted by lukashenko to brainwash youth. The narrative I am based is global history. Do you feel here the difference? Vytis is a Lithuanian symbol with pagan Baltic roots. As the territory of present-day Belarussians was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, we might consider that there is no anything wrong with Belarussians with Lithuanian ancestry and Baltic roots to use Vytis, as they were once part of Lithuania. Yet the problem lies with the ruski mir narrative which denies that there are Belarussian with Baltic roots, denies their Lithuanian and forgets Galicia-Volhynia ancestry, and belittling Lithuanian history itself. You can steal Lithuanian pagan names, symbols and history and try to implement them to ruski ortodox narrative, but you won't be able to understand Lithuanian history and culture without Lithuanian language or by removing ethnic Lithuanians.
@@CompassionAndSincerity What utter nonsense did you just type? Did you even bother to read my comment? And no, last time I checked the native speakers of Ruthenian were Ruthenians, not Lithuanians.
@@Lithowave Did you bother to read? The Lithuanians adopted the Ruthenian language. Additionally, the nobility that moved into Ruthenian areas not only adopted the language, but also Orthodox Christianity and gradually assimilated into the Slavic culture of those regions. The Lithuanians were outnumbered by the Slavs in their own Duchy by 5 to 1. With such numbers, it shouldn't be surprising so many Lithuanians adopted aspects of Rus' and Polish culture.
Baltic symbols are my favorite. I can distinguish them from Slavic and Germanic symbols.
Fun fact - 10 years ago I recolored Captain America in Lithuanian colors and symbols for a meme site and most famous Lithuanian rapper became obsessed with it and he still dresses in Captain Lithuania costume to spread the message of patriotism
wow, cool! I'd love to see that!!!
Where can we see the meme, do you have it in social media?
The double cross (Patriarchal cross/Cross of Lorraine) was given to Jogaila as a dynastic symbol because he had to denounce his Gediminid ancestry (read as: not christian) and he married Jadwiga of Poland who was from a Hungarian dynasty. Cross of Lorraine features in Hungary since like year 1000. Also Vytis used to have the Columns of Gediminas on the shield before the Double Cross of Jogaila.
3:48 small correction, Belarus just stole Vytis and changed the cross a little
@@Espiritu-o7x Tai tada Lietuva gali naudot Tarybų Sąjungos kūjį su pjautuvu? Arba Rusijos erelį?
Vytis is my fav!
It is great heraldry!
Double cross in fact is a "Hungarian cross", Duke Jogaila only added it on a shield of "Vytis" after he married a Hungarian princess Hedwig (Jadwiga) who was at the time Queen of Poland,. This Double cross is still symbol and part of coat of arms of Hungary.
What?! Eilinį kartą įsitikinu, kad nieko neišmanau apie istoriją. Jadvygą įsivaizdau lietuviška Jadvyga, o ne vengriška Hedviga 🫣
@@agneki574 Nežinot, kad Jadvyga buvo Vengrė dar nieko tokio, bet kodėl Lenkijos karalių (taip, Jadvygos oficialus titulas buvo karalius) įsivaizdavot kaip Lietuvę?
Lenkijos karalius buvo lietuvaitė, o pirmoji Lenkijos prezidentė buvo lietuvis. Fight me. @@oddoni
Love all of them but my fave would be pagan "runes". The pattern is so nice. Also I'd have a suggestion- look into "Dainu svente", that event is really cool
What a great informative video. I love it. Love from Texas.
Gedimino stulpai looks like a hand with middle finger up, so it's my favorite
Thanks for the video!
And if you do choose to make one for the anthem, then do please take note of the unofficial ones too, such as 'Lietuva Brangi' and 'Lietuvninkais (Prussian Lithuanians) esame mes gimę' , and their significance to us.
After all, Lietuva Brangi is sung every February 16th, at the Signatarų Namai.
Take care!
Thanks for sharing, Learnt a lot of new things 🙌
Many countries distinguish between an 'official' or 'state' flag and a 'national' or 'civic' flag. In a way it would be great for the Vytis flag to be the state flag because it's good heraldry and because it simply is the national coat of arms on a flag (a so-called 'banner').
Byt it's my impression that its use is more limited. What is its exact status?
7:25 You see more of Žalgiris everywhere because it's not a team just of Kaunas. It's a team of all Lithuania. It's a quest for you to figure out why ;)
so, before I begin, let's get the obligatory BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!!! out of the way :) Loved this video! Very cool! The Audimas stuff is my ABSOLUTE favorite stuff!! I have so many coats, jackets, hats, shirts, ect ect - they ALL tend to incorporate many of the symbols either quite overtly or more subtly (sometimes hiding in pockets, or just faint outlines). The Vytis is my favorite symbol, something very strong about it, but the Pillars of Gediminas are very cool because they can be subtly added to things (like logos :) ) and it becomes almost like a secret handshake. I wastch a youtube channel (mabe you've heard of it?) called Lithuania Explained - he makes great use of this 'secret handshake' in his logo - not as 'strong' as the Vytis, but a very cool logo and story behind it
I strongly balieve that Vytis would be a far better flag for Lithuania, since it has far more historical significance and meaning than the tricolour. The anthem aswell, there were several that were suggested and the other option sounded better, if not better, then unique, since todays anthem is quite boring when it comes to sound, I guess the less complicated one with a simpler rythm was chosen to he more easily sung and remembered
Personally as an American, I believe Vytis in its shield should superimposed on the tri-color. Thus adding a combination and continuation of Lithuania's long and beautiful history.
This has much deeper significanse than just choosing a color of the flag. By creating a new one we said that we leave our history as it was. We have no future claim on the historical lands. We have a historical flag to remember and celebrate. Tricolor based on nationality aims for the future.
What were the other suggestions for the national anthem?
Vytis is too complicated to draw it by hand. The Tricolour symbolises the Republic and the modern Lithuanian nation. People died for it in the Independence Wars, the anti-Soviet Resistance and 1991 thus it would be inapporopriate to just abandon it.
I think that having the Tricolour and Vytis at the same time is the best option.
Anthem is lit 🔥
Out of the three Baltic states i like the Estonian the most (I'm not Estonian). If Lithuania had the vytis flag, she would win.
Iron wolf!!!!!
You need to sing the national anthem for us. Please.
Lithuanians as the last pagans in Europe, have deep roots in ancient religious traditions. Very early on, Perkūnas was imagined as a horseman, and archaeological findings testify to Lithuanians having amulets with horsemen as far back as the 10th-11th centuries. They were previously buried with their horses, which were sacrificed during pagan rituals. It is likely that these horses carried the deceased to burial sites. Lithuanian mythologists believe that the bright rider on a white horse symbolizes the ghost of an ancestral warrior, reflecting core values and goals, providing strength and courage. White horse had a sacred meaning for the Balts. My opinion Vytis is a great symbol not only for Lithuanians or those with Baltic roots, but also a great symbol for anyone willing to fight for freedom.
And i was repainting the flag on sbox a few hours ago
Let me share you a story, how I almost accidentally learned all colors of a Lithuanian flag by heart:
I was watching one recent video from tripoint in Vištytis/Wisztyniec/Виштынец, which connects Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Since Russia does not belong to Schengen, the tripoint has cameras installed and warning signs builded. There is one particular sign between Lithuania and Russia that is getting old and "worn out", where colors are dissolving due to their age.
There is a Lithuanian flag, Polish flag and Russian flag and yellow color of a Lithuanian flag was so dissolved, it seemed that there was no color at all and I said to myself something like this: "Wow, the yellow is almost gone, now it looks like Bulgarian flag, hilarious!".
With this very logic, I just imagine a Bulgarian flag, where instead of a white color, there is yellow one...and I have Lithuania! Of course, do not be nitpicky, there are minor differences, I am aware of that.
❤Aciu
When I was a kid I always found it so funny how people always explained our flag like “the yellow represents the sun and hope ☀️ 😊 the green is the grass and the fields 🌲💚 and the red means blood …🗡️🩸 😈”. Okay, if I’m being honest they might have said that it also means bravery and our fight for freedom, but I already made the joke so now I can’t go back.😊🔪
Vytis (feminine) = English the Chase = slavic Pohonia. And this symbol is not only in Belarus, but also quite common in say Ukraine, incorporated into coats of arms of many noblemen families
Feminine? Vytis is a masculine noun, it's inflected as other masculine nouns that end in -is (kirtis, Rytis, papartis, kàrtis, jautis, plautis and so on).
@@blueeyedbaer Vytis can mean many things. Vytis - armed rider ir man's name is masculine. But in herb for the longest it was Vytis as in Chase, then it is feminine. In First Lithuanian Republic it was the latter, and most close to what Pohonia mean in slav languages. But you right in a way that apparently circa 2000s the official recommendations for dictionary indeed turned the tide to masculine version of Vytis accentuating only the rider and not the action coded into herb. So my bad :) my school days long in the past
@@reaplikacija Lithuanian Vytis is very clearly defined and identified as the Lithuanian coat of arms.
@@CompassionAndSincerity išsiplauk galvą su savo propagandos paranoja. "Po 1569 m. Liublino unijos, kai susikūrė bendra Lenkijos ir Lietuvos valstybė, dar vadinta Abiejų Tautų Respublika, oficialiai buvo patvirtintas jungtinis naujos valstybės herbas: keturių laukų skyde buvo įstrižai pakartoti abiejų šalių simboliai - Erelis ir Vytis. XVI a. viduryje lenkų heraldika Lietuvos herbui suteikė „Pogoń, Pogonia, Pogończyk“ vardą. Ieškodamas šiam terminui lietuviško atitikmens, Konstantinas Sirvydas XVII a. nurodė dvi jo reikšmes: „waykitoias“ (jei kalbama apie asmenį) ir „waykimas“ (jei kalbama apie veiksmą)."
"Manoma, kad žodį „vytis“ XIX a. viduryje sukūrė Simonas Daukantas, tačiau šiuo žodžiu jis apibūdino ne herbą, o jame vaizduojamą raitelį. Vytimi Lietuvos herbą bene pirmasis pavadino Mikalojus Akelaitis 1884 m. laikraštyje „Aušra“. Iš pradžių herbas vadintas Vytimi, o nuo XX a. 4-ojo dešimtmečio - Vyčiu. "
taip kad pirma Vytis/Pohonia, o tik po to Vytis/raitelis
Šaltinis www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=38110&p_k=1
Belarus just stole the coat of Arms lol. After a long occupation by the Lithuanians
The Lithuanians technically stole much from them as well. The Lithuanian language didn't have a written form until around the 16th century (I think), so they adopted Ruthenian (the ancestor to modern Belarusian and Ukrainian) as the official language, with records being written in it and much of the nobility speaking it as well.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS "stole much" please elaborate what Lithuanians stole from you ? 😀
Simple question - And why If as some Belarussians claim that the Ruthenian language is theirs "Old Belarussian" language, so why don't they use the old Ruthenian coat of arms - a golden lion? 🤡
Problem is that you are attempting to apply modern nation-states (which is construct of 19th century) concepts of rule (also in your other comments) to medieval administrative processes. 😀 First of all Lithuanian language is older than russian. The Ruthenian they used was mixed with Lithuanian words. If a Ruthenian language was adapted and used by Lithuanian rulers administration, it could be considered at some level as part of Lithuanian culture at that time. It's important to note that during that historical period, there was no such state known as Belarussia. Belarussia at best can be a derivative of Lithuania and Galicia-Volhynia, and by no means the other way around.
"stole" "begged" - Such claims are chauvinistic slander invented by ruskies aimed at undermining Lithuania's history and hate speech against Lithuanians. Lithuanians have enriched their neighbors with land, rulers and history. If you doubt this, consider the maps from various centuries showing Lithuania shrinking. Yet hydronyms in Belarussia are from Lithuanian words not Ruthenian (for example in Naugardas, Ašmena and others in the Nemunas basin). Lithuanian rule was indeed a blessing and freedom, Lithuanians embraced local customs and beliefs, representing a remarkably progressive approach to governance for that era. People from neighboring countries fled to Lithuania in search of safety. Something similar happening now. Yet as we can see that ruski mir is incapable to learn Lithuanian, even after 10 or 30 years living in Vilnius. The narrative you promote is created by ruski mir and adapted by lukashenko to brainwash youth. The narrative I am based is global history. Do you feel here the difference?
Vytis is a Lithuanian symbol with pagan Baltic roots. As the territory of present-day Belarussians was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, we might consider that there is no anything wrong with Belarussians with Lithuanian ancestry and Baltic roots to use Vytis, as they were once part of Lithuania. Yet the problem lies with the ruski mir narrative which denies that there are Belarussian with Baltic roots, denies their Lithuanian and forgets Galicia-Volhynia ancestry, and belittling Lithuanian history itself. You can steal Lithuanian pagan names, symbols and history and try to implement them to ruski ortodox narrative, but you won't be able to understand Lithuanian history and culture without Lithuanian language or by removing ethnic Lithuanians.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS So we stole what? plus first PRINTED book is from 16th century
@@CompassionAndSincerity What utter nonsense did you just type?
Did you even bother to read my comment? And no, last time I checked the native speakers of Ruthenian were Ruthenians, not Lithuanians.
@@Lithowave Did you bother to read?
The Lithuanians adopted the Ruthenian language. Additionally, the nobility that moved into Ruthenian areas not only adopted the language, but also Orthodox Christianity and gradually assimilated into the Slavic culture of those regions. The Lithuanians were outnumbered by the Slavs in their own Duchy by 5 to 1. With such numbers, it shouldn't be surprising so many Lithuanians adopted aspects of Rus' and Polish culture.
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still better than russia
one lithuanian girl so fucked my life im obsessed with lithuani cuz of her :(
Ko-ko-ko-ko...
@@Middlefinger_Michael wut?
shemale girl f your life in arse?