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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10_078-085_TUMENAS</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>The visual and the mythical-poetic interpretations of sky luminaries in Lithuanian traditional textiles</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Tumėnas</surname>
            <given-names>Vytautas</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:vytautui.vytui@gmail.com">vytautui.vytui@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Lithuanian Institute of History</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>10</volume>
      <fpage>78</fpage>
      <lpage>85</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>02</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2007</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2008</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>This paper analyses some interconnected aspects of Lithuanian folk astronomy. The same mythical–poetic images linking sky luminaries, things in the natural world, and mythological beings as well as human beings are present in Lithuanian mythicalpoetic folklore and in the names of textile ornamentations. Their semiotic net generally comprises flowers, plants, wild and domestic animals, celestial luminaries and mythical people as well as human beings and their artefacts. The investigation of images reveals the mythical-poetic linkage between all the celestial luminaries and concepts of light, marriage and fertility that belong more generally to the Sun Maiden mythology complex.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Ornamentation symbolism</kwd>
        <kwd>Lithuanian textiles</kwd>
        <kwd>folkloric images</kwd>
        <kwd>sky luminaries</kwd>
        <kwd>Baltic mythology</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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