Jūratė and Kastytis

Overview

Palanga’s tourism center recounts Perkūnas destroying Jūratė’s underwater amber palace and killing Kastytis with lightning. Shoreline amber becomes the palace’s scattered remains; another motif explains seawater through Jūratė’s tears.

The same source preserves a contrasting Palanga ending: Jūratė dies beside the ruins, while Kastytis remains chained underwater. These fates should not be combined into one episode.

Nijolė Gaigalaitė’s fountain sculpture commemorates their meeting. Its living models belong to the artwork’s production, not evidence for the legendary lovers’ historical appearance.

Origins & earliest records

Palanga coastal tradition; earliest attestation not audited.

Records & interpretation

The tourism center explicitly separates familiar and local endings.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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   Jūratė and Kastytis Square

   Palanga Tourism Information Center · n.d.

   Selected institutional telling.

Family & connections

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References

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1. Institutional retellingJūratė and Kastytis SquareResearch access: 2026-10-11

Image credits

Imagined lovers in amber palace.

AI interpretation; faces, clothing and palace imagined.