Žemyna, in the Lithuanian mythology the goddess of the ground, personifying the ground, compare žemė "ground" (it is known on sources from 16 century). Žemė takes the second place in a pantheon after Perkūnas. In folklore she is connected to it, with the Saulė and Mėnulis , could enter into a plot of the basic myth as the wife of the Thunderer, the god-sky (Dangus ). Probably in erlier times Žemė and Žemyna were different goddesses, but in folklore they were mixed to the one. Used special reverence. To it brought sacrifices, accompanying with them spell: "dear Earth, you give to me, and I give to you"; in hole put bread, on the ground poured beer, before dream old men kissed the ground with words: "the Earth, my mother, I have taken place from you, you feed me, you carry me and after death you will bury me" (compare the Latvian. Zemes mate - mother of the ground, etc.). To the ground frequently addressed in plots, in particular from a sting of snakes. At Žemyna‘s brother Žemėpatis , "master of the ground", probably, the twin.