Volodymyr Shaian

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Volodymyr Petrovych Shaian
Born(1908-08-02)2 August 1908
Lemberg, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
(now Lviv, Ukraine)
Died15 July 1974(1974-07-15) (aged 65)
London, England
NationalityUkrainian
EducationUniversity of Lviv

Volodymyr Petrovych Shaian (2 August 1908 – 15 July 1974) was a Ukrainian

philologist and Orientalist-Sanskritologist. He was a pioneer of Slavic Native Faith in Ukraine during the interwar period
.

Biography

Shaian was educated at the

Slavic mythology.[2]

In 1944 he had to flee from

Lev Sylenko, who eventually also became a major figure in Slavic Native Faith in Ukraine.[1]

Shaian spent the latter part of his life in exile in London.[3]

Legacy

Like with other neopagan currents associated with the

Kiev in 1993. It was created by the philologist, folklorist and religious studies scholar Halyna Lozko, who was initiated by Myroslav Sytnyk in Hamilton. Lozko has also launched projects such as the Svitovyd Center for the Rebirth of Ukrainian Culture, the School of the Native Faith, the Museum of the Book of Veles (1996–1998) and the journal Svaroh.[5] To coordinate activities throughout Ukraine, Lozko co-founded the umbrella organization Native Faith Association of Ukraine (Об'єднання Рідновірів Україн, ORU) in 1998. It was officially registered as a pagan religious organization in 2001. It includes a number of local congregations and has made an effort to establish regular calendar celebrations. It has also been active in the neopagan interfaith activities of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions.[6]

Shaian and Sylenko had parted ways by the 1970s, and came to represent two rivaling tendencies within the Slavic neopagan scene.

RUNVira sources claiming that Sylenko never had been a disciple of Shaian.[2]

Sources

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Ivakhiv 2005a p. 11
  2. ^ a b Lesiv 2013 p. 41
  3. ^ Ivakhiv 2005a p. 12
  4. ^ Lesiv 2013 p. 42
  5. ^ Ivakhiv 2005b pp. 228–229
  6. ^ Ivakhiv 2005a p. 22

References

  • Ivakhiv, Adrian (2005a). "In Search of Deeper Identities: Neopaganism and "Native Faith" in Contemporary Ukraine" (PDF). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 8 (3): 7–38.
    JSTOR 10.1525/nr.2005.8.3.7
    .
  • Ivakhiv, Adrian (2005b). "The Revival of Ukrainian Native Faith". In Strmiska, Michael F. Modern Paganism in World Cultures. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
    ISBN 978-1-85109-608-4
    .
  • Lesiv, Mariya (2013). The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion. Vol. 2. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP.
    ISBN 978-0773589667
    .
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