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This post is supposed to act as a brief overview of Slavic paganism. These images depict some traditional infrastructure and painting style, and a photograph and painting of a the Ivan Kupala holiday. Ivan Kupala otherwise known as Kupala night is a traditional Slavic pagan holiday celebrated by bonfires, making flower wreathes, putting candles on them and sending them down the river. Normally celebrated on the summer solstice.

I’m focusing on Slavic paganism because it’s so heavily focused upon rituals to do with nature, and being human along with the environment that nurtured you and provides you shelter. The Slavic pagans believed in one god, and other spirits who govern nature. They believed in a diety called Rod, the supreme god, who represented cosmic duality. Represtenting “heavenly-masculine and the earthly-feminine deities, or the waxing light and waning light gods, respectively.”