Klaipėdos universitetas

This article examines the symbolism of birds in the decoration of chests of drawers, based on material in the collection of the Department of Ethnic Culture and Anthropology of the Lithuanian National Museum, using material on Baltic sources of religion and mythology.

The article is devoted to examine the importance of horse image in the poetic texts of various genre Lithuanian folk songs from different local ethnic regions. We find different meanings of the biological horse here, such as riding-horse, working horse, mare and jade here as the representatives in the special social context here. The general conclusion is made about horse as very important symbolic object with wide and deep its meanings in the poetic texts of Lithuanian folk songs.