Autumn-coloured oak2

Due to its longevity, impressive size and majestic structure, oak has always played an important role in religious cult and symbolism. Baltic people inhabiting the area in the Middle Ages – Yotvingians and Prussians, considered oaks as sacred trees. The most important god in the Prussian pantheon – Perkūnas, was symbolised by an oak. This Proto-Baltic name can be reconstructed as coming from the ancient Indo-European word perk- “oak”.