TYPE:Sea God
ORIGIN: Pre-Christian Lithuanian
INFORMATION: Known as the "god who blows the waves."
Bangputys is the name of a masculine deity in Lithuanian mythology. Basing on very scanty sources, some mythologists have reconstructed him as a god of sea and storm. According to the reconstructions, he is austere and unrelenting. He has a beard, wings and two faces. He is commonly portrayed as having a fish in his left hand, a utensil in his right hand, and a rooster on the head.
His sons are the gods of wind: Rytys, Pietys, Šiaurys and Vakaris (easterly, southern, northern and westerly).
Bangputys is considered a very vindictive god, for example, one story talks of how Auštaras (son of Aušrine and Menuo, the other god of easterly wind) was swimming in the sea and made a storm. Bangputys wanted to drown him.
Sometimes Bangputys is referred to as associating with Vejopatis.