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Many professional artists, many of whom are outspokenly Rodnover themselves—some even priests, have emerged with works discussing themes of history, mythology and everyday life. [72] Their works are highly appreciated and celebrated within the Rodnover community. [ 72 ]
Worship ceremony led by the priests of the Ukrainian organisation Ancestral Fire of Slavic Native Faith. A Polish Rodnover outdoor altar. The Slavic Native Faith, commonly known as Rodnovery [α] and sometimes as Slavic Neopaganism, [β] is a modern Pagan religion.
The first literary reference to a volkhv occurs in the Primary Chronicle under the year 912; there, a volkhv predicts Prince Oleg's death. With the adoption of Christianity, the pagan priests came under persecution and sometimes tried to channel social discontent against the Christian church. [ 1 ]
Peterburgian Vedism began in relative independence from other Rodnover movements which developed in other parts of Russia. [3] This was due to the distinct culture of the city of Saint Petersburg, which is a Russian culture closer to the culture of Scandinavia than to mainland Russian culture, even in religious terms, with the presence of many groups afferent to Germanic Heathenry. [25]
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 ...
Ynglism (Russian: Инглии́зм; Ynglist runes: ), [5] [β] institutionally the Ancient Russian Ynglist Church of the Orthodox Old Believers–Ynglings (Древнерусская Инглиистическая Церковь Православных Староверов–Инглингов, Drevnerusskaya Ingliisticheskaya Tserkov' Pravoslavnykh Staroverov–Inglingov), is a white ...
The clergy is made up of priests (vös’as’, vösias), local religious authorities elected amongst the males of the community for organising and performing prayers and sacrifices. They must be married and healthy, both mentally and physically. [10] Some of these priests may become high-priests (tuno). [5] [10] Prayers are called kuriskon. [8]
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]