The present volume is an alphabetically arranged lexicon of mythological terms of Baltic
mythology. The terms are analyzed in their historical and ethnological context and in
perspective of their etymology. They were preserved in numerous chronicles usually written in
non-Baltic languages namely Latin German Old Russian and Old Polish. Their second important
source is hidden in Lithuanian and especially Latvian folk songs called 'dainas'. Portions of
both primary texts and folklore are included within the individual entries. The recently
formulated interpretations of Lithuanian and Latvian mythologists are also taken in account to
confront them with older opinions and with the results of etymological analysis. The proposed
etymological explanations of the analyzed terms should serve to differentiate a common
Indo-European heritage from the purely Baltic forms and finally from external mutual
interferences with Slavic Iranian Germanic and Fenno-Volgaic traditions.
