Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The founder of the Slavic-Hill tradition of Rodnovery, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Belov (also Alex Beloff; Rodnover name: Selidor), was originally a Karate master, and in the 1970s and 1980s he began researching and reviving ancient Slavic martial techniques mixing them with elements of English catch wrestling and other styles, codifying the practice in the book Slavic-Hill Wrestling and ...
Many Rodnover practitioners consciously and actively reject Christianity and the Abrahamic monotheisms. [9] Rodnovers regard the theology of the Old Testament and Christianity as the primary causes of the degradation of the world and of humanity, [3] as the root of all the "mono-ideologies" promoting "universal and one-dimensional truths" and smothering the multiplicity of reality. [10]
Russian Rodnover priest drawing a dot on the forehead of believers for the celebrations of Kupala Night festival. Rodnovery is essentially a religion of the community, with most adherents actively joining organisations; only a minority of believers choose solitary practice. [ 236 ]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
A volkhv or volhv (Cyrillic: Волхв; Polish: Wołchw, translatable as wiseman, wizard, sorcerer, magus, i.e. shaman, gothi or mage) is a priest in ancient Slavic religions and contemporary Slavic Native Faith.
Rodnover ideas are disseminated through a variety of newspapers and journals. [21] The movement has contributed to the diffusion of "historical themes"—particularly regarding an ancient Aryan race—to the population at large, even beyond the boundaries of Rodnovery itself among Orthodox or non-religious people. [ 22 ]
In the Russian intellectual milieu, Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) presents itself as a carrier of the political philosophy of nativism/nationalism/populism (narodnichestvo), [1] intrinsically related to the identity of the Slavs and the broader group of populations with Indo-European speaking origins, [2] and intertwined with historiosophical ideas about the past and the future of these ...
According to the Rodnover questions–answers compendium Izvednik (Изведник), almost all Russian Rodnovers rely upon the Gregorian calendar and celebrate the "sunny holidays" (highlighted in yellow in the table herebelow), with the addition of holidays dedicated to Perun, Mokosh and Veles (green herebelow), the Red Hill ancestral holiday (orange herebelow), and five further holidays ...