Latvian folklore/mythology (in Latvian) Latvian folk beliefs (in Latvian) Latvian fairy tales and legends (in Latvian) Latvian folk songs (in Latvian) Latvian...
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The culture of Latvia combines traditional Latvian and Livonian heritage with influences of the country's varied historical heritage. Latvia is divided...
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Latvia (/ˈlætviə/ LAT-vee-ə, sometimes /ˈlɑːtviə/ LAHT-vee-ə; Latvian: Latvija Latvian pronunciation: [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic of Latvia, is...
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Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...
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The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe. Ancient Baltic peoples arrived in the area during...
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Māra (category Articles with Latvian-language sources (lv))
Poetics and the Latvian Folk Songs". Janis Paliepa, The Origin of the Baltic and Vedic Languages: Baltic Mythology "Latvian folklore: Māra". Archived...
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Traditional Latvian folklore, especially the dance of the folk songs, date back well over a thousand years. More than 1.2 million texts and 30,000 melodies of folk...
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Tautumeitas (category 2015 establishments in Latvia)
April 2018). "Popular 'Tautumeitas' ensemble release ethno-pop folklore album". Latvians Online. Retrieved 27 January 2020. Official website (in English)...
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The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and...
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Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during...
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Dievturība (category Modern paganism in Latvia)
in harmony with Dievs". The movement is mainly based on Latvian folklore, folk songs and Latvian mythology. The Dievturi movement was founded in 1925 by...
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largest bodies of folklore in Canada belong to the aboriginal and French-Canadian cultures. English-Canadian folklore and the folklore of recent immigrant...
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Baltic mythology (redirect from List of Baltic deities)
Dievo sūneliai (Lithuanian 'sons of god'). According to folklore, they are the children of Dievas (Lithuanian and Latvian - see Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus)...
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disappearing, kept by small groups of enthusiasts in some rural regions of Latvia. With the rise of the folklore movement by the end of the 1970s these traditions...
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This is a list of dragons in mythology and folklore. This is a list of European dragons. Azazel from the Abrahamic religions, is described as a dragon...
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Ugunskrusts (category Culture of Latvia)
cross of Perkūnas, cross of branches, Cross of Laima) is the swastika as a symbol in Latvian folklore. The swastika is an ancient Baltic thunder cross...
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Caucasus (redirect from Comparison of Greek and Caucasian folklore)
German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word kruvesis also means 'frozen mud'. Isidore of Seville's Etymologies (c. 625 AD) also says the...
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Elias Levenberg (category Yiddish-language folklore)
Levenberg (Latvian: Eliass (Elja) Lēvenbergs, Yiddish: אליהו לעוונבערג, German: Elias Lewenberg; 25 (18) July 1903, in Tartu – 1941 or 1942, in Latvia), was...
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"corpse", "deceased". Cognates in other Indo-European languages include Latvian nāve ("death"), Lithuanian nõvis (“death”), Old Prussian nowis (“body,...
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Lietuvēns (category Sleep in mythology and folklore)
“lauma”) is a mythological creature in Latvian folklore. According to Latvian folk epics and omens, lietuvēns is the soul of a murdered (strangled, drowned or...
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the Wayback Machine Virtual collection of Latvian dainas (The Cabinet of Folksongs) Audio recordings of Latvian folklore (archives of Latvian folklore)...
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Philippine mythology (redirect from Folklore of the Philippines)
Journal of American Folklore, pp. 26 (99): 13–63 Beyer, H. O. (1923). Ethnography of the Bikol People. vii "BICOL Origin Myth: The Creation of the World"...
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Mahte (category Latvian goddesses)
Ziedu māte - Mother of Flowers Scholarship on Baltic and Latvian folklore remarks that some of the Mahte characters comprise a complex of deities related...
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Dievas (redirect from Dievs (Latvian god))
Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 631. OCLC 3856950. Nav saulīte dievā gaiša, Latvian Daina (traditional...
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of Latvia's oldest ethnic minorities. According to the Office for Citizenship and Migration Affairs there were 7,456 Romani people living in Latvia as...
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Namahage (category Japanese folklore)
Kurentovanje - Slovenian folklore carnival Latvian masked processions List of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties List of legendary creatures from...
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Bushongo mythology Kongo mythology Lugbara mythology Mbuti mythology Kalenjin folklore Dinka mythology Kalenjin mythology Lotuko mythology Maasai mythology Somali...
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Straight Answers about a Baltic Country is a non-fiction book on the history of Latvia by the awarded Finnish author Jukka Rislakki. The book was first published...
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Baltic neopaganism (category Modern paganism in Latvia)
is a category of autochthonous religious movements which have revitalised within the Baltic people (primarily Lithuanians and Latvians). These movements...
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Lāčplēsis (redirect from Latvian Freedom Fighters' Remembrance Day)
Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872 and 1887 based on local legends. It is set during the Livonian Crusades telling the story of the mythical...
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