Baltiškųjų stulpinių paminklų kilmės ir jų adaptacijos problema krikščioniškųjų šalių tradicijose
The Origins and Adaptation of Baltic Pole Monuments: Comparative Aspect

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the important questions of baltic culture: can we regard the wooden roadside poles with a statuette and the wooden poles with a roof, common to the 19th century Lithuania, as the prototypes of funeral monuments? If yes, what is their relationship with the cult of the dead? How they are related to the similar traditions of other countries? In order to answer these questions, the previous investigations, archeological data are discussed and the comparative analysis of various christian monuments in different countries is provided. Like in other countries, baltic and specifically Lithuanian pagan legacy might have been adapted to the new religion, though christianity came to Lithuania much later than to other European regions, and many features of the past survived in the conservative milieu of local peasantry.

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