Patollo

was the Baltic war god, the equivalent of Germanic Odin, the one-eyed god of battle, magic, inspiration and the dead. He was depicted as an old man with a long green beard and death-like pallor, wearing a turban. His sacred objects were the skulls of a man, a horse and a cow.

Patollo was the chief god of the Baltic region. He bestowed good fortune and, like Odin, he took it away whenever he had a desire to taste human blood. At some point before the advent of Christianity Patollo seems to have taken on a more pronounced role in respect of the dead. This would explain why Christian missionaries immediately identified him with the Devil.

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