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Interview with Andras Corban-Arthen By Christopher Blackwell

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Interview with Andras Corban-Arthen By Christopher Blackwell

When we think of the Pagan religions of Europe,  most of us consider the original religions long dead with only the reconstructions that exist today. But is that actually true? Continue reading Interview with Andras Corban-Arthen By Christopher Blackwell

We are going to build a temple!

The Slavonic Traditional religion community the Great Fire now is 21 years old. Our celebration was especially joyfull because,we were very  glad to know that very soon our community will have a special temple, a sacred place for the Traditional religion! We already have the projects for building it, made by famous Ukrainian painters Valentyn Vojtenko and Vasyliy Feshchenko. We will be very glad and greatfull if anyone of our friends will help us,donating WebMoney to help us with the building. Your names will remain in a special charity book!

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And here is the picture of the temple

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Last events conference devoted to the Ethnic Religions in Ukraine and in the world

A Traditional Ritual of the Slavonic community THE GREAT FIRE  was on the 14 th of May. The event was really great! There was a conference devoted to the Ethnic Religions in Ukraine and in the world. In this participated the Slavonic community THE GREAT FIRE, and from Latvia was the representative of Dievturi- Janis Brikmanis,who told much about the Latvian Ethnic religion-Dievturiba and it`s revival in Latvia.

More photos and video you can see here Recent rituals  http://greatfire.ucoz.ua/photo/2011_21_rik_velikomu_vognju/9

A visit of our guest from Latvia Jjanis Brakmanis http://ogin.ucoz.ru/index/audio_i_videomaterialy/0-6

Brussels to host the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2014

Brussels – the capital of the Belgians and of 500,000,000 Europeans – has been chosen as the host city of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2014. The selection of Brussels was made by the Board of Trustees of the governing organization at its March 13, 2011 meeting in Chicago. Continue reading Brussels to host the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2014

The European Ethnic Religions Conference in 2010 (Oaks 7)

From 25 to 29 August, the city of Bologna in Italy hosted the European Congress of Ethnic religions. Referred to as ancient pre-Christian (pagan) or native (indigenous) religions. The first conference was held in Vilnius in 1998, and the for runner of this inter-religious union was named the “World Congress of Ethnic Religions. ” During the past 13-years this religious movement has been growing, and representatives meet regularly in other European countries. This year it was in Bologna with about 100 delegates from Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Continue reading The European Ethnic Religions Conference in 2010 (Oaks 7)

Bologna 2010 speech of Vlassis Rassias (Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes – YSEE)

Dear friends, brothers and sisters, fellow pagans.

I’ m Vlassis Rassias and I represent the Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (YSEE), the main board of representation for the followers of the ethnic polytheistic Hellenic Religion. Our aim is to defend from verbal and physical abuse all the holy items, symbols and ideas of our Tradition and, of course, to fully restore the Hellenic Religion, against the fact that the Greek state has so far omitted in its legislation the granting of legal personality to religious communities apart the three byzantine religions -Orthodox Christianity, Turkish Sunni Islam and Judaism- which constitute Public Law Legal Entities. Continue reading Bologna 2010 speech of Vlassis Rassias (Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes – YSEE)