Interestingly enough, the zaltys, the Lithuanian green snake, occupied an extraordinarily important role in pagan Lithuanian belief as well as folklore. We read how each household maintained its own snake, and contemporary accounts of the forced Christianization of the Balts by their German neighbours report how the Germans seized the snakes against great protest and burnt them in public bonfires in the middle of the Baltic villages.
I have got over almost all the cringe from my weeb years but I will never. NEVER. entirely recover from the year or two where I was deeply and embarrassingly into Axis Powers Hetalia
goddddd I made a PLUSHIE REPRESENTING NAZI GERMANY and took photos of it IN GERMANY. IN PUBLIC.
Jesus Christ lads. cannot recover.
especially bc that phase of my life comes up periodically organically in my mind. because it's responsible for Basically Everything I Know About The Baltic States And The History Of Russia
In May 2022, the Lithuanian community house at Hommersåk, Stavanger, Norway, hosted a very special workshop, led by artists Stuba, Skaidra Jančaitė, Živilė Muraškienė, and Kjell Braaten. From that meeting, a new EP, aptly named Serendipitous Meeting, was conceived, and you can listen to one of its tracks right now.
(1) Pažaislis monastery.
(2) Old Town in Kaunas. As seen in the background, Church of Vytautas the Great or the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania, and is one of the oldest churches in the city and an important example of Gothic architecture in Lithuania.
(3) Scarletina bolete (neoboletus luridiformis).
(4) Kleboniškis, forest on outskirts of Kaunas.
(5) A medieval castle in Kaunas. Originally built during the mid-14th century on a strategic site near the confluence of Nemunas and Neris rivers. Only about one-third of the castle is still remaining.
This building looks odd compared to others in the street where it is located. Not only is it very old, but seems to not have any windows.
It is told that back in the medieval times, a rich and smart yet greedy merchant lived here. The building had many windows facing the street but after the merchant was told to pay the window tax, he decided it was a better choice to wall up the windows instead, saving money and leaving this odd piece of architecture behind for us to find.