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Native Ukrainian national belief)
On October 28-29 2000 the session, making a
decision to organize the all-Ukrainian religious association - council of
Native Ukrainian Belief, was held. This very year its religious center was
registered in Vinnitsa. This is the only religious confession in the Ukraine
whose center is not in the capital of the state. The main cult of this religion
is belief in idol Dazhbog.
The symbol of Dazhbog's banner is the Sun with
the trident in the center.
The adherents of Native Belief use holy figures
of great spirits- Veles, Perun, Swarog and prophets of the Ukraine - Lesya
Ukrayinka, Vasyl Stus, Taras Shevchenko.
According to the activists-ridnoviriv the
population of the historical Podillya adopted Christianity later then the other
regions of the Ukraine. The present Vinnytsya inhabitants insist on the
necessity to renew the ancient religion of their fathers on these very grounds.
There are 4 religious communities of ridnovoriv
with the total number of 200 persons. The old-Ukrainian religious teaching is
spread by the Ukrainians patriots having higher education and looking for
sources of the Ukrainian philosophy and people. That is why the adherents of
this religion consider it to be elitist.
The religious center has no special quarters to
conduct its religious ceremonies in Vinnitsa.
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