>>82275596
Well, the irn wolf specifically is more of the grey area of Romantic mythos (as it's when it was first written) when Roman myths were kind of okay (i.e. Palemon myht etc.). Yeh, you're right. It's not straight up Christian itself, but made somewhat acceptable to them. I think a better example of what Im talking about would be Romuva. The concept looks good for modern Balt pagans, but it's more akin to something Christids invented to make baganism look more diametrically opposed to Christianity by giving it some mirror characteristics. Like I know you mean Lizdeika isn't shown in a particularly negative way, but I think the very position of kriviu krivaitis might be invented to make bagans seem more like a threat and was later taken by the writiers of the Bychowiec chronicle I think to give a sort of Roman/Christian origing to the Lithuanian state to make it seem more civilized maybe. So as opposed to this the Sovijus mythos was written by ppl who had no close connection to the people (neither positive nor personally negative) seeing it as just a simple curiosity, weird and unacceptable as it may be. K just ignore me now siiiiigh... I got way too much drinks for my burial ritual.
