Author : Vykintas Vaitkevičius
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Studies Into the Balts' Sacred Places by : Vykintas Vaitkevičius
Download or read book Studies Into the Balts' Sacred Places written by Vykintas Vaitkevičius and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to now, the ancient Balts' sacred places have typically been described according to the few known written sources, referencing mostly the same few examples of investigated monuments. A non-systematic approach is the main problem that has prevented us from using this valuable base of sources for the investigation of the Balts' religion and mythology. The aim of this work is therefore to examine various scientific information, to classify the Balts' sacred places in Lithuania according to type, to point out the main types and groups of sacred places, and moreover, to analyse their religious and historic contexts. The Balts' sacred places are examined systemically: typologically, according to complex archaeological, historic, ethnologic, linguistic, folkloristic scientific methods and the cartographic analysis of monuments. The results of these examinations are then compared to other data about the Balts and their neighbours the Slavs, Germans and Finno-Ugrians.