pagirnis

Pagirnis in Lithuanian mythology was a mythic being, perhaps a deity, connected with a cult of grass-snakes. The name literally means "underquerner". According to reconstructions, made by some mythologists from exiguous sources, men were sacrificing bulls and pigs for Pagirnis 3 times in year. Women were sacrificing roosters for Pagirnis. Pagirnis should have zoomorphic shape of sacral Serpent. The human who stepped on the sacral serpent Pagirnis, dies. Hand would dry off if somebody would touch Pagirnis needlessly. If people are sacrificing for Pagirnis, he is protecting their household. Question, if Pagirnis was imagined as single deity, or there were many Pagirnises is under dispute, as well as, if the name is a main form, or an alternative epithet only. Also look: altys

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