The Storm God and the Hunter: A Fragment of an Old Balto-Slavic Epos?<br>Le Dieu de l'orage et le chasseur: un fragment d'une ancienne épopée</br>

Abstract

A comparison of a group of Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian legends implying a thunderous character, with a passage from the Mahābhārata, an ancient Indian epos, allows us to reconstruct a fragment of the myth of the Baltic and Slavic thunderstorm god.

Keywords

• perun
• perkūnas
• storm god
• divine weapon
• hunter