Pikse (Pikne)

Once an otherworldly ruler of the weather, also and otherwise known as Äike, Kõu, Paristaja, or Pikker (See Pikri above) (although Kõu and Pikker are usually considered to be brothers, sons of Uku), apparently related to Lithuanian Perkūnas (from PIE *perkwunos, giving also rise to Celtic Taranis and Irish Tuireann, Norse Thor, Slavic Perun and, it seems, Vedic Parjanya) a Baltic god of thunder associated with the oak (*perkwus is PIE for oak [cf. Latin quercus], fir or ‘wooded mountain’, and also signifying toughness or strength); today, a thunderstorm, more commonly known as äike. Non-existent street (or woodland path?) next to Välgu, another non-existent street (they’ll clear the forest one day, unless they’re hoping that an appeal to the god of electro-celestial tree-hugging might do it for them). Pikne (Pitkne, old spelling) was also another term for snake.