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MATO PRETORIJAUS MITINĖS MEDŽIAGOS APIE GIMTUVIŲ IR KRIKŠTYNŲ APEIGAS VERIFIKACIJA: LAIMĖ – LAUMĖ – ŠVČ. MERGELĖ MARIJA?
Volume 20, Issue 2 (2016), pp. 31–69
Žydrūnas Vičinskas  

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https://doi.org/10.15181/rh.v20i0.1391
Pub. online: 28 March 2025      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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28 March 2025

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The article reviews and attempts to verify mythical information provided by Matthaeus Praetorius (Matthäus Prätorius, the end of the 17th century) in his work “Deliciae Prussicae or Prussian Theater” (Deliciae Prussicae, oder Preussische Schaubϋhne), which is directly concerned with childbirth and christening rituals, at the same time the role of Laimė, Laumė and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the mentioned customs is revealed. In parallel with this, the article discusses interpretations by more significant researchers of the 19th–21st centuries who were concerned with M. Praetorius’s mythical material on childbirth and christening. The context of the researches of the 19th–21st centuries has shown that researchers of earlier periods did not consider the question of reliability of M. Praetorius’s mythical material. The present research has also revealed that mythical information on childbirth and christening described by M. Praetorius is reliable and that patrons of human birth – Laimė / Laumė / the Blessed Virgin Mary – should be treated as some kind of (each other’s) continuation or as a constant and variables. Human birth is a constant which is made meaningful by rituals that, taking into account historical and religious context, are patronised by a certain variable.

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Matthaeus Praetorius childbirth christening Laimė the Blessed Virgin Mary authenticity Baltic religion and mythology Laumė

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