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External ceremonies are mass gatherings, usually held on important holidays dedicated to the worship of common gods, and involving large numbers of people. Internal ceremonies are those restricted to specific groups, and holding special meaning for such groups; they may comprise private rituals and worship of specific ancestors. [1]
Alexander Belov's Slavic-Goritsa wrestling is based on an ideology built on the cult of Perun, military honor, and valor, and it has many followers in Russia. [38] In Slavic-Goritsa wrestling, the fourth day of the week is dedicated to Perun. [128] In Belov's calendar (1998), Gromovik (Perun's Day) falls on July 23. [128]
This 10-day rite of spring and fertility is celebrated on Shrove Sunday in Ptuj, the oldest documented city in the region, [8] and draws around 10,000 participants each year. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Its main figure, known as Kurent or Korent , was seen as an extravagant god of unrestrained pleasure and hedonism in early Slavic customs. [ 10 ]
Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) has a theology that is generally monistic, consisting in the vision of a transcendental, supreme God (Rod, "Generator") which begets the universe and lives immanentised as the universe itself (pantheism and panentheism), present in decentralised and autonomous way in all its phenomena, generated by a multiplicity of deities which are independent hypostases ...
Icon "Saints Anastasia and Paraskeva Friday", Russia, XV century.Saint Nedelya (St. Sunday, St. Anastasia, [1] in folk Orthodoxy of the Slavs is the personification of Sunday as day of the week. [2]
Kupala Night (also Kupala's Night or just Kupala; Polish: Noc Kupały, Belarusian: Kupalle, Russian: Ivan Kupala, Kupala, Ukrainian: Ivan Kupalo) is one of the major folk holidays [1] in some of the Slavic countries [2] that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [1] and the East Slavic feast of Saint John's Eve.
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Like other Slavic neopagans' holidays, the day of Veles is based on folklore. [1] In Christian folk rituals, the festival of Veles corresponds to the "day of Saint Blaise". [2] [3] In the Orthodox tradition, St. Blaise is the protector of cattle, and his feast falls on 11/24 February; [4] [5] [a] it is also believed that he wins over Winter ...