Perkons

by Baiba Meistere

 
Perkons (Lithuanian Perkunas, Prussian Percunis, Russian Perun) – Thunder god – is one of the main deities in Baltic (i.e. Latvian, Lithuanian, Prussian) folk religion. Etymologically, the word perkons is derived from the Indo-European stems per(k) (Ivanov, Toporov 1974, 1985.) or per+g(q) (Muelenbach 1904, Endzelins 1951).