OTL Teutonic Order States in Prussia and Livonia looked like this. Over time Baltic Prussians became more loyal citizens of TO state than German urban population of large towns, like Danzig or Thorn, who were more and more unhappy about rising taxes and finally rebelled against TO in 1454. Baltic Prussians were even allowed to keep their religion even as late as during 1520s (at the time of the lasts wars between Poland and Teutonic Order, in 1520 Prussian Pagan priest Waltin Supplit asked Grand Master for permission for performance of pagan rituals in Sambia, Grand Master agreed. Thousands of Prussians gathered on the Baltic coast and begged their gods to save Prussia from invasion of Danzig fleet, allied with Poland. They sacrificed black bull to the gods, and seemingly that worked, because Danzig fleet retreated. That is how Teutonic Crusader States fullfilled their mission ;)

Wow, I hadn't realized that paganism lasted so long in Prussia! Do you have any good English Language sources that cover the period; I'd love to read more!
 
OTL Teutonic Order States in Prussia and Livonia looked like this. Over time Baltic Prussians became more loyal citizens of TO state than German urban population of large towns, like Danzig or Thorn, who were more and more unhappy about rising taxes and finally rebelled against TO in 1454. Baltic Prussians were even allowed to keep their religion even as late as during 1520s (at the time of the lasts wars between Poland and Teutonic Order, in 1520 Prussian Pagan priest Waltin Supplit asked Grand Master for permission for performance of pagan rituals in Sambia, Grand Master agreed. Thousands of Prussians gathered on the Baltic coast and begged their gods to save Prussia from invasion of Danzig fleet, allied with Poland. They sacrificed black bull to the gods, and seemingly that worked, because Danzig fleet retreated. That is how Teutonic Crusader States fullfilled their mission ;)
was it the same with pagans in the baltics?
 
Wow, I hadn't realized that paganism lasted so long in Prussia! Do you have any good English Language sources that cover the period; I'd love to read more!
Unfortunately my sources are in Polish. Maybe @Augenis know some English language sites about Baltic Paganism? That is not my speciality.
At the time paganism was strong also Lithuania (16th century bishop of Samogitia complained, that hardly anyone in his diocese ever confessed or received Holy Communion and that Samogitians can't even make Sign of Cross).
15th century Prussians had custom, that was interpreted by clergy send from Germany as double baptism. Bishop of Sambia argued, that one baptism is enough and forbidden that practice in 1430 (of course, that was ignored by Prussians). He was not aware, that this is not second baptism, but "anti-baptism". Prussians washed baptism out of their children.
 
Wow, I hadn't realized that paganism lasted so long in Prussia! Do you have any good English Language sources that cover the period; I'd love to read more!
I'm just as lacking in English sources on this period as @Jan Olbracht, I read about it in Lithuanian.

Honestly though, I didn't even know about the episode Jan is talking about until he mentioned it several times on this site. But it is true that Baltic paganism was very long lasting, much longer than anywhere else in Europe except the Sami and a few other peoples in Northeast Europe.

An example I really love to explain just how enduring the faith was is that Lithuanian mythology has myths about their chief thunder god, Perkūnas, using a musket to hunt for Velinas.

was it the same with pagans in the baltics?
Baltic paganism was the official faith in Lithuania until 1387 and persisted for centuries afterwards (the original baptism only covered a few hundred nobles and nobody really cared about what the peasants thought). What started killing the local faiths was the Counter-Reformation in Lithuania Propria and the Reformation in Lithuania Minor - however, many of the local traditions and celebrations endured and it's possible to argue that Lithuanian paganism never really died and that Catholicism here is a syncretic faith.
 
In Latvia post-conquest by Crusaders? German, like in Prussia.
Although there was no literature in Baltic languages before 16th century, short text and single sentences written by other people (mostly by Germans in Prussia) from 13-14th century survived.
Ah that makes sense, I thought we had no text before the 16th century altogether.
Baltic paganism was the official faith in Lithuania until 1387 and persisted for centuries afterwards (the original baptism only covered a few hundred nobles and nobody really cared about what the peasants thought). What started killing the local faiths was the Counter-Reformation in Lithuania Propria and the Reformation in Lithuania Minor - however, many of the local traditions and celebrations endured and it's possible to argue that Lithuanian paganism never really died and that Catholicism here is a syncretic faith.
Seems quite a stretch to argue that, just about everything is syncretic then, literally.
 
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