Pikne

Pikne (also Piken or Pikker: the long one) is the god of lightning in Estonian mythology.^[1] In Finnish, lightning is sometimes called Pitkäinen, which is similar in meaning. It is likely that both are taboo euphemisms.^[2]

There was an Estonian satire and humor magazine called Pikker.

Legend

In the Middle Ages, the pagan priests made animal sacrifices to Pikne. The most famous priest of Pikne (literally: thunder priest) was the seventeenth-century Jürgen of Wihtla (Estonian: Vihtla Jürgen), who uttered the following prayer:

Take it Pikne,

the bull we are offering

with two horns

and four hooves

for ploughing and harvesting

Pikne was protector of the

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