Dievas (sometimes Praamžius or Okopirmas in folklore) is the god of the sky, lightness, peace and friendship in Lithuanian mythology. He is the prompter of vegetation. His animals are horses, stags, bulls and small birds. His sacral trees are birches, ryes and other deciduous trees. He is also the creator in the Lithuanian sagas. He awards good people and punishes hunks. Dievas is sometimes similar to Dievas Senelis, but he has great creative power. One saga tells how Dievas was washing his face, when one dirty drop dropped on the ground and became a human. Dievas often goes with his brother (or creation) Velnias (Velinas, Patulas). Velnias is always trying imitate or stymie Dievas, but his works become evil and snags.
Dievas is said to have created the ground. He sent Velnias to the bottom of the primeval ocean and told him to bring up some dirt. Velnias was diving three times, but the water swilled the dirt from his hands. Then Dievas found some dirt under Velnias' nails. Dievas formed a seed of the dirt, and dropped it into the water. The seed became a small bit of earth. Dievas spent the night with Velnias on the bit. Velnias execrated Dievas and wanted to drown him, while he was sleeping. He took Dievas and started to pull him towards the water. Where Dievas glided, the earth grew.
If Dievas was the highest character in the pantheon, then Perkunas, Latvian Perkons, Prussian Perkuns, Perkztno, the god of storm and thunder, master of the atmosphere and all celestial matters, and evidently Dievas’ son, was the most important and prominent.
Lithuanian ethnological legends recorded at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, are not myths in the true sense, although some of the things they contain do reflect ancient cosmogony.
Dievas eventually remembers that he spat here on his way — thus, this creature sprang from his saliva, and this is man. Legends concerned about the origin of woman solve it in a rather simple way — according to them, Dievas spat twice, hence the first man and woman.
Generally in the image of the God as Old man figure the old age is being hyperbolised to the verge of grotesque, yet this is quite understandable, because the first and the oldest god has to be old, because he is the oldest person in the whole world.
Lithuanian devil of the folklore in the ethological legends creates the world in the company of the God, the devil himself is either created by the god or in the older tradition) is a God's younger brother.
Dievas did not intend to create human being, he just spits, without any intention and in seeing a being appear is surprised himself and in some tales he addresses the new creature: "Who are you?", and, of course the answer is that it does not know.
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