Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its ...

Seeing the shrine in Šventoji made me wonder: could all these references be explained by ancient Lithuanians worshipping bees as part of their pagan practices? Lithuania has an extensive history ...

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees. In mid-January, the snow made the little coastal town of Šventoji in north-west Lithuania ...

However, after his death in 1263, Lithuania returned once more to the fold of paganism, which, incidentally, did not prevent Mindaugas’ son Vaisvilkas, who succeeded his father, from being a ...

Inija Trinkuniene, high priestess of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community, presides over a fire ritual marking the summer solstice in Vilnius. Image: AFP/Petras Malukas Inija Trinkuniene ...

Seeing the shrine in Šventoji made me wonder: could all these references be explained by ancient Lithuanians worshipping bees as part of their pagan practices? Lithuania has an extensive history ...