Bangpūtys
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- This article is about the Lithuanian deity. For the Lithuanian poet who sometimes wrote under this name, see Antanas Baranauskas.
Bangpūtys is the name of a masculine deity in Lithuanian mythology. Basing on very scanty sources, some mythologists have reconstructed it as god of sea and storm. According to the reconstructions, he is austere and unrelenting. He has a beard, wings and two faces. He is commonly portrayed as having a fish in his left hand, a utensil in his right hand, and a rooster on the head.
His sons are the gods of wind: Rytys, Pietys, Šiaurys and Vakaris (easterly, southern, northern and westerly).
Bangpūtys is considered a very vindictive god, for example one story talks of how Auštaras (son of Aušrinė and Mėnulis, the other god of easterly wind) was swimming in the sea and made a storm. Bangpūtys wanted to drown him.
Sometimes Bangpūtys is referred to as associating with Vėjopatis.
