Latgallen Young Maiden and Soldier 12th Century. (Source: Latvian Folk Costumes (Levads latviešu tautas tērpu vēsturē), 1936)

LATGOLA • Reconstructions of the clothes and jewelry worn by women belonging to the Latgalian people of Latvia in the pagan era, based on archaeological finds. The photos come from DAUMANTS KALNINS, experimental archeology project "Myth and Metal". #latgola #latgale #latvia #latvija #balticculture (at Latgale, Latvia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgz0dyPviIc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Elektroinstalācija pamestā ēkā #latgale https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRRC7WMenm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

昨日の「せかほし」面白かったなぁ。 毎度言ってますが、また行きたいと思いました。 放送の中で紹介していたブローチなんてとても素敵だったなぁと思います。 当店では「せかほし」で紹介された作家さんではありませんが、リトアニアの作家さんのピンバッジを取り扱っております。 ただ、少し前に紹介させて頂いておりますが、現在箕面の「NAGI LIVING」さんにて期間限定販売をさせていただいております。 直に現物を見てご購入できるチャンスです。 是非NAGI LIVINGさんまでお越しください（火曜日水曜日がお休みですのでご注意ください） @nagi_living @nhk_sekahoshi #せかほし #バルト三国 #バルト三国雑貨 #バルト三国旅行 #北欧 #北欧雑貨 #北欧旅行 #エストニア #ラトビア #リトアニア #eesti #latvia #latgale #lietuva https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceyh0bZPprk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

America: I wonder how you four ended up being relatives, you look so... diverse.

Lithuania: *facepalm*

Latvia: Dude, THAT'S racist.

India: Wow, you sound just like your father, it gives me nostalgia! :D

Estonia: *tries not to laugh*

India: About 10 000 years ago, there lived a family of a hundred sons and one daughter. After a big war, the father, whose name was Bharata, was severely wounded and passed away without having time to write a will, so a squabble for power began. Brother turned on brother, everyone wanted to be the next ruler and marry their only sister, as pretty as lotus flower, the only woman who possessed the magical powers. The youngest son, a boy of extraterrestrial beauty and a kind heart, skin as an ivory, hair the ancient darkness of Vidisha, face a sculpture from Sravasthi, he didn't want to participate in those horrors, so he took his bow, arrows and Madu, and he went west to seek his fortune, leaving behind the saddened sister, who was too cowardly to give up everything she knew and leave, even if it meant losing all the power over her body. For many centuries, he wandered around the world like sun, saw thousands of different miracles, participated in thousands of different battles, made thousands of friends - but nowhere he felt like staying forever, nothing brought him a feeling of home. His soul and body were tired, he hated the sun itself, so he went north.

Lithuania: Oh, I know the rest, Curonia told me when I was little! Once, your brother reached the sea merging with the sky itself, bluer than turquoise. He couldn't have but fall into temptation to reach the Heaven Castle. He kept going many miles further ahead, and seeing that the sea didn't go any deeper, he lost his vigilance and track of time. Tired but inspired, he decided to catch himself some fish to eat. No one told him that sea was the local witch's property, whose peace no one dared to disturb for a long time.

Lithuania: Lightning of all colours scorched his ivory skin and long black hair, and the undercurrents dragged his limbs down the water. Jūratė was an asocial introvert, and she really didn’t like the smugglers who took all her amber and killed her fish. At first, she wanted to punish the stranger, but seeing his exhausted bloodless face, her heart was filled with pity, so she brought him to her Amber castle for interrogation.

India: I never liked that wicked daayan.

Lithuania: Well, mom wasn't that evil. After having a hearty lunch in a house made of sun, both made by a beautiful woman with golden hair and sapphire eyes, dad said he immediately fell in love with her. This made her laugh a lot, so she decided not to tell him that she almost killed him and the storm was her doing, and she put all the blame on the Thunder God.

Lithuania: However, when mom asked what his name was, he said something so difficult to pronounce that she asked: "Kas ir ta tauta?" - which means "What is your nation?" Dad didn't know any Baltic language back then, so he thought "kastaut" was some sort of friendly greeting. This word, eventually, became his new nickname. Nowadays, however, its form is Kastytis.

Latvia: Estonia called him Aesti, btw.

Lithuania: The moral of the story is that serious misunderstandings can not only destroy human relationships but also create them! :D

America: What a beautiful story.✨️

Latvia: And then they got married, had 10 children, and died in one day. Happy end.

Lithuania: You sound sarcastic.

Latvia: Wow, no way.

India: So basically, you three are the only alive sons of my brother.

Latvia: Nuh-uh, it's Liet only. Estonia is the oldest of us all, and he's our bro not by blood but by soul, we went through a lot of shit together during Livonian Order occupation, russian empire, nazis, soviets... I'm the proud child of Kurzeme and Latgale. Zemgale as well, but it's complicated.

India: Wait, so you're the grand kid? ...Why do Lithuania and Latvia call each other brothers then, not "nephew" and "uncle"?

Lithuania: It’s complicated.

Latvia: He's too Polish to be my uncle.

Lithuania: Shut up, my German nephew.💢

Latvia: Uno reverse, Estonia is your uncle.

Estonia: Please stop, I don't want to be anyone's uncle XD

Hi friends I watched some of the Latvian song and dance festival (Latviešu Dziesmu un Deju Svētki 2023) over the weekend. I've been learning Latvian for a few years now (when I watched in 2018 I couldn't understand literally anything though) and I've decided to post some translations of the songs (after making a Latvian friend correct them for me). So to start off here is the song that's been in my head all week: Dvēseles dziesma - Song of the Soul.

Dzied mana dvēsele, dzied - Sings, my soul sings Caur tūkstoš balsīm klusi - Through a thousand voices softly Dievs manā dvēselē dzied - God sings in my soul Kas zvaigznēm piebirusi - That is filled with stars Skumst mana dvēsele, skumst - Grieves, my soul grieves Kā zvejas tīkli jūras krastā - Like fishing nets on the seashore Skumst mana dvēsele, skumst - Grieves, my soul grieves Tā skumst Kurzemē - It grieves in Courland* (*Kurzeme or Courland in English is the western most region of Latvia with a long coastline on the Baltic.)

Dzied mana dvēsele, dzied - Sings, my soul sings Caur tūkstoš balsīm klusi - Through a thousand voices softly Dievs manā dvēselē dzied - God sings in my soul Kas zvaigznēm piebirusi - That is filled with stars Raud mana dvēsele, raud - Cries, my soul cries Par Staburaga mēmām sāpēm - About the mute pain of Staburags* Raud mana dvēsele, raud - Cries, my soul cries Tā raud Vidzemē - It cries in Vidzeme* (*Staburags was a cliff on the River Daugava which was apparently very beautiful but was submerged after the construction of the Pļaviņas Hydroelectric Power Station which is the largest hydroelectric powerstations in the Baltics and one of the largest in europe. *Vidzeme is the region which contains Riga the capital and runs from the centre of the country to the Northeast.)

Dzied mana dvēsele, dzied - Sings, my soul sings Caur tūkstoš balsīm klusi - Through a thousand voices softly Dievs manā dvēselē dzied - God sings in my soul Kas zvaigznēm piebirusi - That is filled with stars Zied mana dvēsele, zied - Blooms, my soul blooms Kā saulespuķe kviešu laukā - Like sunflowers in a wheat field Zied mana dvēsele, zied - Blooms, my soul blooms Tā zied Zemgalē - It blooms in Semigalia* (*Zemgale or Semigalia in English is the central southern region of Latvia named after a Baltic tribe called the Semigallians (Zemgaļi) who were notable for their long resistance to the Teutonic knights so says wikipedia)

Mirdz mana dziesma - My song sparkles Lūdz mana dziesma - My song asks Mīl mana dziesma - My song loves Latvijā - in Latvia

Dzied mana dvēsele, dzied - Sing, my soul sings Caur tūkstoš balsīm klusi - Through a thousand voices softly Dievs manā dvēselē dzied - God sings in my soul Kas zvaigznēm piebirusi - That is filled with stars Deg mana dvēsele, deg - Burns, my soul burns Kā piena krūze māla ceplī - Like a milk jug in a clay kiln Deg mana dvēsele, deg - Burns, my soul burns Tā deg Latgalē - It burns in Latgale* (*Latgale is the Southeastern region of Latvia. Which notably has its own dialect/language called Latgalian spoken by about 9% of the Latvian population according to a 2011 census)

Mirdz mana dziesma - My song sparkles Lūdz mana dziesma - My song asks Mīl mana dziesma - My song loves Latvijā - in Latvia

Поўнач Беларусі (Паазер'е), Курган Сяброўства, крайняя паўночная кропка Беларусі і крайняя ўсходняя кропка Латвіі(Латгалія). Геаграфічны пункт, у якім сустракаюцца тры мяжы - граніцы трох дзяржаў.

🇱🇻Uz ziemeļiem no Baltkrievijas (Paazerje), Draudzības pilskalns, Baltkrievijas tālākais ziemeļu punkts un Latvijas tālākais austrumu punkts (Latgale).

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okay okay ive been ocposting all day but like. hear me out again

yknow the whole "character realizes theyre in a story" trope. yeah? YEAHHHH. like hear me out, i swear this could be so so so cool no im not sugarhigh and easily excitable rn shuddup

all like. noncanon. its just fun in theory but i dont think its very fun if they were. aware.

but yeah i dont think either of them will take the news very well. even moreso if we go with the "they hear their creator/meets them" thingy. i think elias would be SO offended if he knew who is a major influence on his entire character. dominic. uhm. doesnt need to know shhh what he doesnt know cant hurt him.

i. dont know what words are right now and everything kinda hurts rn but also. i once saw somewhere a HC thats like "ocs should be able to speak the same languages their creator can" or smth along those lines and. oh yeah. elias is peak fucking rīdzinieks like cmon i know its true in my heart. but something really appeals to me about dominic being a kurzemnieks. pure country boy energy. i just want their dialects to be sliiiiightly different but still clearly latvian. yeah. anyways. neither of them are setting FOOT near latgale. i dont. fucking understand that dialect. its not even a dialect, its evolved into being its own language but. uhm. kinda getting off topic whoopsies anyways send tweet kisses xoxo

Projekta ietvaros uz kokapstrādes ražotnes ēkas jumta uzstādīti 1050 saules paneļi ar kopējo sistēmas jaudu 425 kW, kas ik gadu saražos gandrīz 386 MWh zaļas elektroenerģijas. Gada griezumā tie būs 25% no ražotnes ceha elektroenerģijas pašpatēriņa, vasaras mēnešos saules enerģija spēs nodrošināt pat vairāk nekā 70% no ražotnes ceha dienas patēriņa(..)

(Ošukalns has invested €350,000 in the construction of a solar panel park

The multi-sector company Ošukalns has installed one of the largest solar panel parks in the Latgale region on the roof of the woodworking plant's workshop in Jēkabpils.

As part of the project, 1,050 solar panels with a total system capacity of 425 kW have been installed on the roof of the woodworking factory building, which will produce almost 386 MWh of green electricity annually. On an annual basis, they will be 25% of the production workshop's self-consumption of electricity, in the summer months solar energy will be able to provide even more than 70% of the production workshop's daily consumption(..)

P.S. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the war crimes committed by them have significantly accelerated the phasing out of Russian fossil fuel imports in the Baltic States. The Baltic region has enough of its own renewable energy resources so that the import of Russian and any other fossil fuels for electricity production is no longer necessary...

#Rīga #maskačka #latgales priekšpilsēta

Aivis Pīzelis (Latvian b. 1988), Vientuļā māja (Secluded House), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 cm.

⚔️KURŠĒ ONT IMBARIES • Living history group KROMA KOLNA BRUOLISTE reenacting the lives of ancient Latgalians. Photo from Kuršē ont Imbaries. #kuršēontimbaries #latgale #latgalē #latvia #historicalreenactment #historicalreconstruction #livinghistory (at Latvia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfafVUGLfV0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Šīs vasaras pirmais veloceļojums var sākties. #veloceļojums #Latgale #veloprieks https://www.instagram.com/p/CfECVWtsdo0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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