I have never heard perkele used as a word for god in any old song. It is just a swear word. Is just another case of assenine linguistic juggling pulling some inane theory out of thin air.
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Stanley Sjöberg, an infamous Pentecostal pastor, claims that there never was a hell in Christianity, but that the world helvete (the Swedish word for hell) was taken from the pre-Christian "Hels vite" (meaning Hel's fine or penalty). :p
Some paganic symbols exist in Latvia till this day as part of folklore.
Here are some, unfortunately in Latvian. These are some basic symbols.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/ea...23598e112c.jpg
They could be combined together etc. Such ornaments are put for example on belts known as Lielvarde belts
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/9d...59116cda64.jpg
Old Norse Fiorgyn, Thor's mother, and Fiorgynn, Odin's father-in-law are cognates of Perkunas.
Makes sense, because IE "p" changed to "f" in Proto-Germanic around the first millennium BC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law).
One theory is that the "Fin" in Finland is a cognate of the "Pan" in Pannonia: "Borrowed from Latin _Pannonia_, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European _*pen-_ ("moist; wet; mud; swamp; water")." (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pannonia)