Slavic Native Faith Facts for Kids

Slavic Naitive Faith - is modern pagan religion, which is related to Slavic paganism. It's sometimes called Rodnovery.

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Worship ceremony led by the priests of the Ukrainian organisation Ancestral Fire of Slavic Native Faith.
A Polish Rodnover outdoor altar.
A building of the Slavic Kremlin Vitaly Sundakov, a Rodnover citadel in the Podolsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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.
From left to right: Kolovrat, Hands of Svarog, Thundermark, sign of Veles.
The Hexafoil—Perun's sign, or Thunder wheel—a folk symbol, used as the main by the Union of Croatian Rodnovers.
The Svetoary community of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities celebrating Mokosh.
Outdoors shrine (kapishche) at the Temple of Svarozhich's Fire in Krasotinka, Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
Serbian Rodnovers celebrating the Kupala Night.
The Seven Gods, by the Russian artist Maxim Sukharev, 2010s. The artwork represents the supreme God (Rod) manifested as a sevenfold hierarchy, according to Slavic theo-cosmology.
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.
Rodnover wedding ceremony.
Ukrainian Rodnovers worshipping a kapy (pole) of Perun, in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
Russian Rodnover priest drawing a dot on the forehead of believers for the celebrations of Kupala Night festival.
Rodnovers engaged in a clockwise circle-dance around a bonfire, celebrating the Koliada festival in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
Ritual at the Temple of Svarozhich's Fire of the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities, in Krasotinka, Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
Poles of the gods at a shrine in the Szczecin Landscape Park, in Szczecin, Western Pomerania, Poland.
Sacrificers officiating at a ritual square (kapishche) in Kaluga, Kaluga Oblast, Russia.
Group of Anastasians celebrating the holiday of Koliada at an Anastasian village in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.
Ukrainian Rodnovers worshipping a goddess' pole on Vodokresh in the countryside.
2018 publication of Dołęga-Chodakowski's About the Slavs before Christianity by Polish Rodnovers.
First page of the Ukrainian magazine Dazhboh (February 28, 1935).
One of the earliest copies (dated 1955) of one of "Isenbek's Planks" (the n. 16), upon which the Book of Veles was supposedly written.
The Temple of Mother Ukraine–Oryana in Spring Glen, New York, United States.
Ukrainian Rodnovers engaged in public worship.
A founder of the Native Polish Church, Lech Emfazy Stefański, holding a wedding ceremony.
Priests of the Skhoron ezh Sloven Rodnover organisation.
Russian Rodnovers engaged in a ritual with a fiery wheel.
Ritual of the sword planted into a pile of stones or brushwood, to honour the martial deity (Perun), practised by Russian Ynglists in Omsk, Omsk Oblast. It is a Scythian ritual.
Sylenkoite clergy at the Temple of the Nativity of Lev Sylenko, of OSIDU RUNVira, located where Sylenko was born, in Bohoyavlensky, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
Buildings and fields in Korenskiye Rodniki ("Root Springs"), an Anastasian village in the Shebekinsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia.
Guests from Overseas—Nicholas Roerich, 1901. The painting represents the coming of Varangian Rus' from Scandinavia to the heart of the Eurasian continent.
The Temple of the Wisdom of Perun, part of the headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk, in 2004.
A couple of Anastasians celebrating Osenins, the festival of welcoming Autumn, at an Anastasian settlement in Belgorod Oblast.
Ukrainians worshipping at the Temple of the Nativity of Lev Sylenko in Bohoyavlensky, Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
Fire ritual of Belarusian Rodnovers.
Group of Polish Rodnovers celebrating a ritual in winter.
Polish Rodnovers worshipping in the woods.

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