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Krūminė is a feminine name, perhaps of a deity, in Lithuanian mythology. Basing on scant sources, some mythologists have reconstructed it as a deity of brushes, bushes and husbandry and an inventor of agriculture. The parallel name in Latvian, if these reconstructions are correct, is Krumu mate.
According to Theodor Narbutt, Pykuolis (Prussian: Pykuls; Prussian and Lithuanian: Patulas, master of the underworld) kidnapped the daughter of Krūminė, Nijolė. Krūminė was traveling over the earth, looking for her daughter and teaching people about agriculture. Once she found a stone, where Dievas had inscribed the weird of Nijolė. Krūminė visited her daughter and when she came back to the earth, she saw that the households of people were better than they were before. Krūminė is one of Lithuanian household gods. She is the sister of Perkūnas (or Dievas). In this case, Krūminė should be identical to the Greek goddess Demetra.