Perkunas eternally pursues Velnias with lightning and thunder, chasing the underworld god who hides in trees, stones, and animals in the central mythological conflict of Baltic tradition.
Perun and Perkūnas derive from the same Proto-Indo-European thunder god (*Perkwunos). Both wield thunderbolts, battle a chthonic serpent, are associated with oak trees, and hold Thursday as their sacred day.
Perkunas enforces the cosmic order that Dievas embodies, punishing transgressors with lightning and pursuing Velnias on behalf of celestial law in Lithuanian etiological tales and dainos.
Perkunas destroyed Jurata's amber palace with lightning and chained her beneath the sea for violating cosmic law by falling in love with the mortal fisherman Kastytis.
Perkunas split Menuo with a sword for his infidelity to Saule, punishing the moon god's betrayal of the celestial marriage and creating the waning phases of the moon in Lithuanian dainos.
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