Slavic Native Faith facts for kids
Slavic Naitive Faith - is modern pagan religion, which is related to Slavic paganism. It's sometimes called Rodnovery.
Images for kids
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Worship ceremony led by the priests of the Ukrainian organisation Ancestral Fire of Slavic Native Faith.
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A Polish Rodnover outdoor altar.
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A building of the Slavic Kremlin Vitaly Sundakov, a Rodnover citadel in the Podolsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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The Fiery Chariot of the Word—19th-century Russian Old Believers' icon of the Theotokos as Ognyena Maria ("Fiery Mary"), fire goddess sister of Perun. Belief in a mother goddess as the receptacle of life, Mat Syra Zemlya ("Damp Mother Earth"), was preserved in Russian folk religion up to the 20th century, often disguised as the Virgin Mary of Christianity. The fiery "six-petaled roses" that surround the Ognyena are one of the variants of the whirling symbol of the supreme God (Rod) and of its sons.
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The Svetoary community of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities celebrating Mokosh.
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Serbian Rodnovers celebrating the Kupala Night.
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Statue of Svetovid in Kiev. The four-faced "Worldseer" represents (according to the Book of Veles) Prav, Yav and Nav in the four directions of space.
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Ukrainian Rodnovers worshipping a kapy (pole) of Perun, in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
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Russian Rodnover priest drawing a dot on the forehead of believers for the celebrations of Kupala Night festival.
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Rodnovers engaged in a clockwise circle-dance around a bonfire, celebrating the Koliada festival in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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Poles of the gods at a shrine in the Szczecin Landscape Park, in Szczecin, Western Pomerania, Poland.
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Group of Anastasians celebrating the holiday of Koliada at an Anastasian village in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.
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The Temple of Mother Ukraine–Oryana in Spring Glen, New York, United States.
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Sylenkoite clergy at the Temple of the Nativity of Lev Sylenko, of OSIDU RUNVira, located where Sylenko was born, in Bohoyavlensky, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
See also
In Spanish: Neopaganismo eslavo para niños