Norbertas Vėlius (1 January 1938 in Gulbės, near
Šilalė – 23 June 1996 in
Vilnius
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, buried in the
Antakalnis Cemetery) was a
Lithuanian folklorist specializing in
Lithuanian mythology
Lithuanian mythology ( lt, Lietuvių mitologija) is the mythology of Lithuanian polytheism, the religion of pre-Christian Lithuanians. Like other Indo-Europeans, ancient Lithuanians maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. ...
.
Major works
*''Mitinės lietuvių sakmių būtybės'' (1977)
*''Laumių dovanos'' (1979) (translated into Russian as ''Цветок папоротника: литовские мифологические сказания'' in 1989, into English as ''Lithuanian mythological tales'' in 1998)
*''Senovės baltų pasaulėžiūra'' (1983) (translated into English as ''The World Outlook of the Ancient Balts'' in 1989)
*''Chtoniškasis lietuvių mitologijos pasaulis'' (1987)
*''Baltų religijos ir mitologijos šaltiniai'', 4 volumes (1996–2005).
1938 births
1996 deaths
Lithuanian mythology researchers
20th-century Lithuanian historians
People from Tauragė County
Burials at Antakalnis Cemetery
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