Neužverstas lietuvių istorijos puslapis
An Open Page in the Lithuanian History

Summary/Abstract: he article is based on the theories, related to history and archaeology, such as sočiai organisation, symbolic interactionizm, sočiai construction, hermeneutics, sočiai anthropology, and other modern theories. The focus of the author's attention is on the mounds, the heritage of ancient Lithuanians, vvhich today is forgotten both by the Lithuanian society and Lithuanian statė. The author raises and promotes the ideathat manyof them couid haveserved as theBaltic shrines under the open sky. He also hypothesises that the building and functioning of the mounds, which vvas so intense during the 8th—1 2th centuries, is to be correlated with the Baltic religious reform which couid have been implemented as opposition against the spread of Christianity from the South and VVest. The author also presumes that the building of the mounds and using them for ritual ceremonies notonly fortified the nature-faith' of the Lithuanian ancestors, thus retarding the advance of? Christianization, but also promoted the formation of integrated territorial communities. This formed the prerequisites for the riseof a Consolidated nation (in a senseof self-defence and expansionism). The author statės that the reanimation of the Lithuanity' (especially of the younger mounds couid fortify the mouldering of generation). It is also important to validate this heritage as a priceless constituent of the old European culture; it couid also serve as an attraction for tourists.

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