For ten points, name this ethno-linguistic group that includes Old Prussians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, close relatives of the Slavs named for the sea they live by.
One group of these peoples believed in Laume, a goddess of orphans and birth, and Ganiklis, the god of herdsmen. Another group of these peoples worshiped Meness, a moon god, and Auseklis, a god of the dawn. A folk tale from these peoples tells how the maiden Egle fell in love with the serpent prince Zilvinas, but when the townspeople kill Zilvinas she turns herself into a tree. Traditions among these peoples, who revered the Earth goddess Zemes or Zemyna, include using grass-dwelling snakes to divine the future. One tribe from this group of peoples killed St. Adalbert when he attempted to convert them to Christianity; later efforts to Christianize these worshipers of the thunder god Perkuns or Perkunas were made by the Brotherhood of the Sword, and one group of them stayed pagan until the conversion of Jogaila. For ten points, name this ethno-linguistic group that includes Old Prussians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, close relatives of the Slavs named for the sea they live by.
One group of these peoples believed in Laume, a goddess of orphans and birth, and Ganiklis, the god of herdsmen.
{Baltic} Peoples [accept: {Balts}; grudgingly accept “{Lithuanians}” until “Meness”]