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The Old Prussians or Baltic Prussians (German: Pruzzen or Prußen; Latin: Pruteni; Latvian: Prūši; Lithuanian: Prūsai; Polish: Prusowie) were an ethnic group, autochthonous Baltic tribes that inhabited Prussia, the lands of the southeastern Baltic Sea in the area around the Vistula and Curonian Lagoons. They spoke a language now known as Old Prussian and followed a religion believed by modern scholars to be closely related to Lithuanian paganism with such gods as Perkūns.

During the 13th century, the Old Prussians were conquered by the Teutonic Knights, and gradually germanicized over the following centuries. The former German state of Prussia…

A: historically moving from a community based on genetic physical relationship toward a community based on spiritual relationship
B: with a free and widest possibility to confess any views,
C: but united by
1) the whole previous history,
2) common self-determination and common name
3) common revived Prussian language
4) adopting main elements of the Baltic folklore and various historical local customs (manners) of any origin which existed on the territory of Baltic Prussia
5) perceiving this territory as the single real homeland.

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Herkus Monte (also Hercus, Lithuanian: Herkus Mantas, Latin: Henricus Montemin) was the most famous leader of the Great Prussian Uprising against the Teutonic Knights and Northern Crusaders. The uprising began in September of 1260, following the Knights' defeat at the Battle of Durbe, and lasted for the next fourteen years.

The Chronicon terrae Prussiae stated that Herkus was originally from Natangia, one of the lands of the Old Prussians. The Prussians were the first of the Baltic tribes to be conquered by the Teutonic Knights, who first arrived in Chełmno in 1226 at the request of Konrad I of…

The nation which consisted of eleven tribes at the moment does not exist on the map of modern Europe. After the 2nd World War the Prussian territory was divided between Poland, Russia and Lithuania. In a way, one should not be surprised thus the Prussian nation was gradually eliminated by ”Christianity propagators”
Only in Poland, right after the war, there was a debate how to name this land. There was even a suggestions to name it Prussia. But because of this everlasting German illness ”drang nach Osten” as well as the heated German revisionism this idea was dropped. Definitely, one…

Among the various pagan groups in Eastern Europe the pagans in the Baltic countries - Lithuania and Latvia - seem to be most active and best organized. One should take into account that the Baltic countries have been christianized relatively late in comparison with other European countries.

The direct inspiration for the modern attempts to revive Lithuanian paganism was the tradition of the Baltic holiday of summer solstice, when people put wreaths on their heads or float them on the rivers.

The initiator of Lithuanian paganism in the modern era was Wilhelm Storosta, called Vydunas, born in 1868 Lithuanian mysticism,…