It was a thing that is hard to miss. Today I discussed with my wife some recent politics and events, and as soon as I said something like “It is time to destroy russia”, lighting strike and thunder boom happened instantly, and first thought was “Perun agrees with this!”.
Of course you can say this is some coincidence. But how high is probability of randomly matching in time when you saying something and transition of usual rain into thunderstorm?
I can say I feared lighting strikes and thunder in the past.
But when my worldview become closer to animism and polytheism it all changed. My first thought on first thunderstorm of 2026 was “Perun came back!”. Yes, in this joyful manner.
I understand that people in old times feared thunderstorms. And Perun likely had some grim reputation, which produced sincretism of Perun into orthodox Ilija the Prophet.
But for me the first thunderstorm of the year means different thing. Summer will come, it almost at doorsteps.
My life is much more joyful now than when I was a grumpy atheist.
