252 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXII This Regula ion shall en e in o o ce on he wen ie h day ollowing ha o i s publica ion in he O icial Jou nal o he Eu opean Union.
This is ZIGMAS ZINKEVIČIUS
Academician eme i us
The di ec ions o scien i ic esea ch a e: Bal ic
s udies, his o y o Li huanian language, dialec ology, onomas ics.
SENASIS Li huania is con iden
I'm no su e wha you' e alking abou .
In ancien Li huania, he e we e no idols, such as he G eeks and Romans, who buil
and wo shipped idols, such as Apollo, Aph odi e, and o he s. The whi es did no ha e
any eal o simila idols. They we e no idola e s, bu na u alis s. He ha nessed he
o ces o na u e, p ayed in sac ed gi ai es (alcoholic […] oak[…] hills, alkalines). They
had sac ed bodies o wa e (holes, lakes, e c.) and o he sac ed na u al objec s
ha hey wo shipped, which hey had inhe i ed om he ea lies imes as a
mono heis ic belie . Thei sup eme dei y, he goddess, was pe cei ed as he
pe soni ica ion o hea en. This can be deduced om he bo owed Finnish wo d
ai as (wi h ins ead o bal ų ska džio p iebalsio d, plg. dei as), which means
[…]dangus[…]. Elemen s o poly heism in he Belie e s o he Bal ics appea ed la e .
Among o he hings, his was ela ed o he p ac ice o calling he ancien dei y
"god" by ce ain epi he s (such as omnipo en ), which we e p onounced
di e en ly in di e en languages and now gi e he imp ession ha hey we e
di e en gods.
The une en names o he wo shiped na u al objec s in he a ious Bal ic
languages, which we e la e e ained by esea che s as sepa a e dei ies, also
con ibu ed o all his. Thei inaccu a e spelling in he sou ces ( hey did no
w i e in Li huanian) only inc eased he con usion and misled he ea ly, and misled
he cu en esea che s. A misunde s anding o he ea ly Bela usian ai h as
poly heis ic ook oo in he scien i ic li e a u e. This is he second my h nex o he ancien Li huanian my hs abou s a ues.
Deli e ed on 18 May 2015
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Fo he pu poses o his Decision, he
ollowing de ini ions shall apply: