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The European Congress of Ethnic Religions 2023 in Latvia

2023/06/29–2023/07/02

The purpose of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) is to serve as an international body that will assist Ethnic Religious groups in various countries and will oppose discrimination against such groups. By Ethnic Religion, we mean religion, spirituality, and cosmology that is firmly grounded in a particular people’s traditions. In our view, this does not include modern occult or ariosophic theories/ideologies, nor syncretic neo-religions.

The first European Congress of Ethnic Religions took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 1998, the 10th Congress was held in Rīga-Jūrmala-Sigulda (Latvia) in 2007. We are privileged to announce that the 18th Congress returns to Latvia. We are looking forward to see you in Rīga and Lokstene during the 4 days of the Congress (June 29 – July 2, 2023) in Latvia.

Please, feel free to follow our news and updates on social media sites — @Dievturi —, and use the hashtag #ECER2023 when publishing or looking for the information about the Congress.

More information: https://sites.google.com/view/ecer2023/

Here is the application form link: https://forms.gle/RZtEpAaFtJkj8Aqw5

The ECER mourns the passing of Vlassis G. Rassias

The ECER mourns the passing of Vlassis G. Rassias, one of our founders and a member of our Board of Directors. Vlassis, the leader of the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), was renowned as an author, speaker, and activist for the restoration of the Hellenic ancestral religion, as well as an advocate for other indigenous, ethnic religions throughout Europe. I grieve, personally, the loss of a dear friend and colleague, someone whom I deeply appreciated, respected and admired throughout the decade we worked together. This is a photo of Vlassis addressing the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, Canada last November, as part of a panel discussion that he, Inija Trinkuniene of Lithuania, and I presented there. On behalf of the ECER, I send our deep condolences to his family and community — we are all so much richer for having had Vlassis as part of our lives.

Andras Corban-Arthen
President, European Congress of Ethnic Religions

May the earth rest lightly on you, Vlassis RASSIAS

Sit tibi terra levis, Vlassis Rassias

This morning a mate and long-standing friend informed us that Vlassis Rassias, the head of the big heathen community of Greece YSEE (Ellenic’ Council) is passed away.

The news, unexpected, came like a slap.
While I’m writing i don’t know how and why he has died yet.

Immediately many memories of his strong personality and of our various meetings, happened in a time frame of veteen years, reached my mind.

Different occasions, between different people and lands, but similar at the same time, along our Europe roads.

Contacts and congresses happened pursuing a common goal: the right to the legitimacy and dignity for those seeking and nding answers and cohesion in the ancient and eternal religiousness of our respetive Ancestors.

The rst coming to my mind are the images of our last meeting, not lacking of dialectic, but always respectful and with the aim of the common good: it was in occasion of the last E.C.E.R. Congress (former W.C.E.R.) organized in Rome on April 2018 by the M.T.R. coinciding with the Foundation of Rome celebrations MMDCCLXXI a.U.c.

However our pasti is old timed.

With Vlassis, indeed, we were in touch from the beginning of the century thanks to the tireless witness of the Roman-Italic Tradition that was Salvatore Ruta, cofounder and princeps of the M.T.R. of the origins.

Through Salvatore, with Vlassiv we enstablished a very hearty connection based on mutual exchange, by virtue of the common aim of making the Religion of our Ancestors live. Actually his trip to Messina and the meeting with Ruta were for Vlassis the starting point for the development of his next productive path in the Ellenic land, with his Y.S.E.E.

Then the new technologies spread in those years, internet and the debate blogs, helped our exchanges and meetings: Vlassis on 2006 called me to concelebrate at his great event: the Prometeia, organized in Greece on the Mount Olympus, in occasion of the Summer Solstice. I embraced the invitation leading a M.T.R. delegation in the Ellenic land.

After that journey – because of the surprise of attending a Solstice celebrated by an unexpected crowd of people, men, women, erderly, children, a whole community, and because of the interesting organizational and doctrinal insights of those days with Vlassis on the Moun Olympus and in Athens – that I arrived to a method decision: time had come that we, Italian heathens, as well, came from our ivory tower and opened up to the world.

So I owe to Vlassis the turning point that i gave to the M.T.R., rst one in Italy to undertake international relations.

So we take part to the W.C.E.R. congress on 2007 in Latvia, in Riga and Jurmala: even in this occasion, between the Y.S.E.E. mates and us, important af nities and strong correspondences emerged coming from the common classical culture. Then we met in Poland and, after a few years, in Lithuania, in Vilnius on 2014 and in Prague on 2016. Vlassis gave us the courtesy of a friendship visit, as well, in our hedquarters in Rome, to strengthen the ancient bond. Dear Vlassis, let me say that your long and constant work for the bene t of the current Greek and European paganism has been essential. we hope that others will know how to seize your important baton and that they will be worthy of raising the torch high, always keeping the sacred re burning. May the Gods be favourable to your new journey undertaken, and may the ground be light for you.

Daniele Liotta

MTR President

An invitation to Rodokrug – an international festival of native traditions

Please, accept our invitation to the RODOKRUG – a meeting of people, Earth and traditions of all nations.

The planet Earth calls us and wants us to think about what we are going to give to our children. If your ancestors spoke to you and you feel their voice in your hearts, then come. We will connect our forces in a united circle with our songs, prayers, dances and acts of wisdom.

The key is a connection between man and the planet. Our native traditions and their people. They teach us about values like Man, Nature, Family, LOVE, connection with sacred powers and mutual friendship. Our gods and ancestors protect us on our journey.

Please, accept this invitation to the new festival Rodokrug – a space, created for sharing our native traditions, which were passed to us by our dear ancestors.

We are inviting you, because:

  • –  We need to discuss and find a way TOGETHER. Hand in hand, with open hearts.
  • –  We wish to share the wisdom of our ancestors, our wonderful native TRADITIONS.
  • –  We are creating a space, where you can meet representatives of other tribes fromEurope and other continents, who have kept their traditions until today.
  • –  It is time to share our deep values and restore the sacred power, connecting our nations.It is the power of our Earth, and we can pass this sacred connection to our future generations, too.

Come, and if you can, bring your TRADITIONS, CEREMONIES and RITUALS, SONGS and DANCES – which you carry inside yourselves. Let’s share them with each other. Come and talk to people at a lecture. Or come to support this meeting just with your very presence. Everyone is welcome.

Together we will find the key to a happy life in a family, community and connection of the spirit and universe.

We are looking forward to meeting you.

The RODOKRUG festival will be held from 10th to 12th of May 2019. The place of meeting is Camp Pol’ana Vrbovce near the Czech and Slovak border.

We are all one circle, one family, and our roots touch each other.

SLAVA and thanks to our native gods, Mother Earth, ancestors and powers of Nature.

On behalf of the whole team of RODOKRUG festival Zdenek Ordelt, leader of the festival organization.

Web: https://www.rodokrug.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/rodokrug

Icelanders abandon National State Church, as old pagan Ásatrú continues to grow

Republished from Icelandmag.is

The National Church of Iceland continues to lose congregants. The latest data on religious registration from Registers Iceland reveals that the church lost 2,029 members during the first nine months of 2018. The State Church is the only of the five largest religious congregations to lose members this year.

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YOUTUBE DECIDED HELLENISM IS UNSUITABLE FOR MINORS!

Press Release 346 /February 1, 2018

The morally, religiously and culturally bankrupt Monotheism, is desperately clinging to life by conjuring up from its dark past the most disgusting aspects that its intolerant nature has to display. Its Islamic branch by use of military force is trying to bring humanity back to a period of medieval barbarity, while the Christian branch is attempting the same but with a preference to the 16th Century, the time of the Puritan Age.

With the incitement of fundamentalists, in country after country, those that exhibit a sick hatred for the human form, attack anything that glorifies it. Because the Greek art of the pre-Christian period and the Neoclassicism of the 19th Century that emulated it, above all others glorified the human body, they have become the main target of the monotheists. These attacks come in various guises, hiding behind the seemingly innocent masks of modernism, feminism etc…, or directly under the banners of fundamentalism and conservatism.

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The Hellenic Ethnic Religion supports the request of Romuva Religion to be identified by Lithuanian Parliament as traditional

To:

The Parliament of Lithuanian Republic
Gedimino ave. 53,
LT-01109 Vilnius,
Lithuania

The Ministry of Justice
Gedimino ave. 30,
LT-01104 Vilnius,
Lithuania

Athens, Greece, May the 20th, 2017

Dear Sirs,

We, the legal body of the Hellenic Ethnic Religion, herewith express our full support to the appeal of Romuva, the legal body of the Ancient Baltic Religion for state recognition by the Parliament (Seimas) of the Lithuanian Republic, as part of the Lithuanian historical, spiritual and social heritage. Continue reading The Hellenic Ethnic Religion supports the request of Romuva Religion to be identified by Lithuanian Parliament as traditional

The Greek state has finally recognized the Hellenic Ethnic Religion as a ‘Known Religion’

ATHENS, Greece – On April 9th, the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), a religious organization working to restore the indigenous religion of Greece, put out a statement saying Greek polytheism has received legal status in Greece. Prior to this, Greek Pagans did not have religious freedoms such as the ability to buy land to create houses of worship nor could Pagan clergy perform marriage ceremonies.

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