Lietuvių panteonas
LTApie lietuvių panteoną – suprask, lietuvių dievus – rašyta daug, labai daug. Tačiau dar neteko užtikti, kad kas nors būtų pasiaiškinęs, ką gi reiškia, kas gi iš tikrųjų yra panteonas. Todėl dabar pradėsime būtent tuo, ir kaip tik tam bus skirta pirmoji straipsnio dalis – panteono sąvokos kilmei ir pirminiam turiniui nustatyti. O tada jau bus galima pereiti ir prie lietuvių panteono, kurio samprata tokiu atveju, kaip pamatysime, gerokai pasikeis. Šiaip ar taip, apie lietuvių dievus čia nebus kalbama – kalbama bus apie panteono sąvokos lietuviškąjį atitikmenį, taigi apie lietuvių panteoną siaurąja ir tiksliausia prasme. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Dievai; Mitologija; Lyginamoji religijotyra; Lyginamoji religijotyra ir mitologija; Mitologija; Panteonas; Panteonas,; Visi dievai; All gods; Comparative studies of religion; Comparative studies of religion and mythology; Gods; Lithuania; Lithuanian mythology; Mythology; Pantheon.
ENAll previous researches into ancient Lithuanian pantheon meant by it some more or less exact number of gods to be identified, their functions established, and their names explained. And never was the very concept of pantheon inquired about. However, it is very instructive. The word pantheon derives from the Greek [...] namely "(temple) of all gods", as the famous Pantheon at Rome. Compuond adjective n. [...] m. [...] refers to the collocation [...] "all gods" not rare in the Greek writings begining with Homer. This collocation appears to be a term denoting a definite mythological and religious concept known also in other Indo-European and not only Indo-European lores. One of its most distinc feature is that the All gods can denote not only "all gods" but, quite paradoxically, also some limited group of gods, even of secondary importance, among other groups. Especially well the concept of All gods is attested in the Vedic and Hindu tradition as [...] and compound [...] "all gods". As it were, it has its counterpart in Lithuanian "visi dievai" "all gods", attested in Old Russian, German and Polish historical sources beginning from the 13th century and, as compound, in the toponyme Visdievai (the village near Obeliai in Rokiškis district). Moreover, the local oral tradition until recently relates about the temple consecrated to all gods by the village from which it has got its name. Some historical sources also report of such a temple in the prechristian Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Anyhow, the term visi dievai or compound "visdievai" "all gods", in connection with the temple "Visdievų" "Of all gods", would be the real Lithuanian "pantheon" – not the arbitrary list of names baselessly and unsuccessfully wanted by students of Lithuanian mythology for the last several centuries. [From the publication]
