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by Micha F. Lindemans

The Lithuanian grass-snake deity and a symbol of fertility. It was kept as a pet and considered to be a divine envoy that played an important part in prophecies. It was the favorite animal of the sun goddess Saule, who would weep upon seeing a dead Zaltys.