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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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]
A Roman Catholic priest was killed inside a church in conflict-torn Myanmar by about a dozen anti-junta rebels.. Reverend Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, 44, was attacked on 14 February with a knife ...
Serbian Orthodox archpriest Vukajlo Božović was a guerilla leader in the Kosovo Vilayet.. Throughout history, armed priests or soldier priests have been recorded. Distinguished from military chaplains, who are non-combatants that provided spiritual guidance to service personnel and associated civilians, these priests took up arms and fought in conflicts as combatants.
“He was exactly the priest I needed,” Urch said. Stories like Urch’s echoed across Lexington this week as Catholics and community members mourned the surprise death of Fischer, 50.