Even now in Russia, people keep in a corner of a room in their house,
icons to Christian saints. However, until very recently, icons were
NOT kept in the corner of the house, but rather carved wooden idols
were kept in the corner of the house: a graven image of pagan gods.
The opera "Mlada" focuses upon paganism. Novels such as "The Master
and Margarita", by Mikhail Bulgakov reference paganism, too.
The costumes, activities, ideas associated with paganism as found in
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova,
Russia, etc. are extraordinarily similar, as can be ascertained by an
examination of holdings in museums of ethnography. Thus what is found
in Lithuania fits well with what is found in Russia. Such a widespread
geographic similarity supports the view that paganism, as a religion,
preceeded Christianity, and is mixed with Christianity at this time.
Why might people believe in Paganism? What might be appealing?
Paganism maintains ties to nature. The sun, the moon, day and night,
wind, forest, rivers and streams, clouds, rain, snow, thunder and
lightning, the seasons Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, trees and
plants, birds and animals: A poetry of nature for people that live
closely to nature. People depend upon nature. Compare the names we
have for months, to the poetry of nature still found in the Ukrainian
language. Note: forest, frosts, birch trees, flower blossoms, grass,
insects, lime trees, sickle, heather, yellow leaves, leaves falling,
frozen earth.
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