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| | The Latvian Dievturi Church |
 | | Latvian church Dievturi is the revival of Latvian ancient religion. | | | Dievturi Church does not negate others religions and understandings of God but they think that every religion must be in its own place: Hinduism in India, Islam in arab countries, Judaism in Israel, and so on... | | | Dievturi Church is interested in contacts with all persons, movements and religions with similar ideas and activities. |
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http://www.vinland.org/heathen/pagancee/dievturi.html
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| | Neopaganism in Central-Eastern Europe |
| | Dievturi means in Latvian "those who hold by God". | | | In Latvia the pagan traditions are being recalled by the pagan religious association called "Dievturi". | | | The movement of Dievturi arose in Latvia in the twenties, and the founder of it was Ernest Brastins, who tried to revive Latvian paganism. |
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http://www.vinland.org/heathen/pagancee
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| | == Dievturi == |
| | The Latvian religion is practised both individually and at the Dievturi congregations and other groups (puduri). | | | Latvian religion helps an individual to comprehend God, to understand the structure of the Universe and to live one's life in harmony with God. | | | Dievturi take care of folk education, hold religious services and praise meetings, and also conduct ceremonies at festivities and rites of passage - birth, coming of age, marriage and funeral, issuing the appropriate certificates as well. |
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http://www.ailab.lv/dievturi/d12.htm
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| | Latvia1999 |
| | Dievturi as a religion was maintained by Latvians in exile during the Soviet regime. | | | Dievturi have no pastors or priests, and they do not have prayers. | | | At the beginning of 1990-ties dievturi met for their holy praises every fortnight, but now the meetings are held rarer. |
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http://www.hrwf.net/html/latvia1999.html
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| | Baltic Religion |
| | Its Pagan tradition is known as Dievturi, and its aims are to live in harmony with Nature and other members of society and to follow the will of the Gods. | | | There are no official figures for the number of adherents of traditional Baltic religion. | | | A similar organisation operates in Latvia, called Dievturiba, after Dievs the sky-god who, along with Laima, goddess of life, is believed to determine the fate of humans. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/europe/baltic.html
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| | BALT-L Archives -- September 1993, week 1 (#25) |
| | In Latvia the church is known as Dievturi. | | | Most songs are four-liners and they deal with all matters of life, cosmology, and ethics.) Dievturi strongly reject the Christian religion which is considered foreign to the Latvian sentiment. | | | In the United States the church is registered in Michigan (I think) under the name Latvian Church Dievturi. |
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http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9309a&L=balt-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=2136
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| | The Ancient Latvian Religion - Dievturiba |
| | For the ancient Latvians and the modern-day Dievturi, the meaning and purpose of life is to live in harmony with the repeating rhythms of Nature (this includes all the gods — even Dievs himself!) and other members of society. | | | Along with their Christian brethren outside Soviet Latvia, most Dievturi have organized themselves into draudzes (congregations), thus facilitating the celebration of season feasts, sacred rituals and rites of passage — all integral parts in the life of a Dievturis. | | | The beginning, middle and end of life — the rites of passage — were also marked by sacred and festive celebrations: the first related to the birth (name-giving ceremony), the second to the courtship and wedding ritual, and the last to death. |
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http://www.lituanus.org/1987/87_3_06.htm
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| | Lithuanian Romuva |
| | The followers of Latvian Ethnic Religion have named themselves "Dievturi," which would be "Dievaturiai" or maybe even "Dievanešiai" in Lithuanian. | | | In other words, to hold or carry God in yourself. |
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http://www.romuva.lt/index.php?kalba=engl&page=tikejimas&nr=3
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| | Revival of the ancient Baltic religions |
| | It has been accepted that the rights of such ethnic and religious groups are a part of human rights as expressed in the declaration pertaining to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1992. | | | We define "Ethnic religions" as surviving ancient religions, such as Hinduism, or animism of various other cultures, as well as religions in the process of restoration, such as the Icelandic "Asatru", Latvian "Dievturi", Lithuanian "Romuva" and others. | | | National ethnic religions face the same danger of ex-tinction. |
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http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/h_es/h_es_trink_j_baltic.htm
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| | Laima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In modern Dievturi these three goddesses are referred to as the three Laimas, indicating they are the same deity in three different aspects. | | | Though Laima makes the final decision, all three make joint resolutions regarding the fate of particular individuals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laima
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| | Kļaviņš, K. The Baltic Enlightenment and Perceptions of Medieval Latvian History. |
| | Similarly, Merkel’s “pantheon of the gods” was later quite important for the Latvian national awakening in the 19th century, and some elements of this can even be observed in the “Dievturi” movement which existed before the Second World War and has been revived in the present. | | | In spite of Merkel’s influence, it is not entirely true to say that Latvians actually received historical knowledge or even “their own history” from this Enlightenment figure, as Aleksejs Apinis has maintained. |
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http://www.historia.lv/publikacijas/akadeemiskie_raksti/klavins003.htm
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| | Latvians Online Features A primer on Ūsiņi, the start of summer |
| | In October, 2003 she posted a fascinating article regarding the Dievturi religion and the lives of the spirits. | | | Is there additional information, in English, about the Dievturi beliefs and traditions? | | | I enjoy the articles written by Amanda Jatniece and feel that I gain from reading them. |
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http://www.latviansonline.com/features/article.php?id=249_0_11_0_C
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| | Pagan |
| | For instance, the popular “Dievturi” ‘religion’, formed by Ernest Brastins as a set of beliefs supposedly based on Latvian mythology and folk tales, has very little to do with the fundamentals in which Latvians believed centuries ago, instead, it is a ‘religion’ built on the good old Christian Bible. | | | In addition, the interpretation of mythology was greatly distorted by the “white Latvian” movement. |
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http://theoldpath.com/website/iceheart/page2.html
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| | ABC-CLIO |
| | Scandinavian Asatru, Latvian Dievturi, American Wicca—long-dormant religions are taking on new life as people seek connection with their heritage and look for more satisfying approaches to the pressures of postmodernism. | | | Detailed accounts of the belief systems and rituals of each religion, along with analysis of the cultural, social, and political factors fueling the return to ancestral religious practice, make this a rich, singular resource. | | | The Neopagan movement is a small but growing influence in Western culture. |
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http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=109757&viewid=1
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| | Latvians Online Features An Easter parade of Latvian Web sites |
| | For those who follow the Latvian folk religion dievturība, the marking of the first day of spring on the vernal equinox (saulgrieži) is already complete. | | | Then, after greeting the dawn with song, they, too, participated in a feast. | | | The dievturi no doubt got up before sunrise to wash their faces with the cold water from a nearby stream. |
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http://www.latviansonline.com/features/article.php?id=130_0_11_0_C
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| | Celebrating Midsummer Eve the Latvian Way |
| | Lithuanian paganism was again officially recognized in 1967, and since 1988 a shrine-site at Romuva has again become a place of pilgrimage and celebration for modern Baltic pagans. | | | These works offer invaluable documentation of the survival of pagan beliefs and folkways down to the present time. | | | Early in the twentieth century, the pagan oral tradition of Latvia was collected and published in six volumes (the "Laviju Dainas"), followed by the collection of sacred Latvian folk songs in the 1920s (the "Dievturi"). |
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http://www.widdershins.org/vol8iss2/01.htm
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| | A L D I S 1 |
| | Although the number of dievturi was not big and their beliefs did not reach the position of the state religion in Latvia, the influence of their ideas is much greater. | | | To demonstrate their primarity dievturi introduced their own calendar by adding ten thousand years (or just one digit) to the existing one. | | | To a great extent it is just the Christian framework filled with different contents or the same ideas declared having actually originated in pre-Christian times and later included in the Christianity. |
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http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol4/aldis1.htm
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| | Inta Gale Carpenter |
| | (Ozols is well-known as a follower of the folk religion dievturi, see above). | | | Lecturers were censured for using materials or films from Soviet Latvia; some were deemed suspect because they held "questionable" memberships, for example, in dievturi, a revivalist movement grounded in Latvian folk religion, whose predominantely young membership openly challenges the authority of the Latvian Lutheran and Catholic churches. | | | Ozols' role as provocateur got a rise from a woman in the audience when he indicted the Lutheran church as a German import which also dictated customs of wear. |
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http://haldjas.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/cf/cf/6.html
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| | Dimzens |
| | Performance in dievturi (godholders - Latvian neopagans) gathering, 2001 | | | This page is created with support of SFL, Latnet and Lanet. | | | Number of participants: 35, of them by age: |
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http://folklora.lv/kopas/dimzens/en.shtml
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | I am the only teen in the group, while there are some younger children. | | | I don't believe they have updated their website for a while now. | | | Didn't Dievturi start their work before the 2nd world war? |
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http://images.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?boardID=14286&discussionID=40410
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| | Letonia - Latvijas - Wikipedia |
| | Outra relixión é a Dievturi (Os gardas de Deus), a cal ten a súa base histórica na era mitolóxica precristián. | | | Países con parte do seu territorio en Europa |
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http://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letonia_-_Latvijas
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| | Encyclopedia: Dievturiba |
| | The velis stays near the body, gradually melting and disappearing over time (similar to the concept of a ghost). | | | Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). | | | Dievturi writings (http://www.ailab.lv/dievturi/d.htm) - mostly in Latvian, but one article in English |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dievturiba
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| | Links to other Web sites |
| | LV EN The White Fathers - a tastefully parody about dievturi (Latvian pagans); the background image they was stoled from us :). |
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http://folklora.lv/saites.en.shtml
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| | DeerHawke's Pagan Links |
| | The Baltic Heritage Page The official web site of the Church of Latvia "Dievturi". | | | My site is as eclectic as I am. | | | A Walk in the Labyrinth How to create, and use, a labyrinth as a problem solving device and a tool for personal growth. |
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http://members.aol.com/deerhawkec/plinks.htm
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| | Dievturi |
| | Sorry, no screened links relevant to dievturi were found: | | | To link to this page, please copy and paste this exact code: |
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http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Dievturi
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| | Les dieux grecs |
| | Le paganisme moderne, dans les pays baltes, est appellé Dievturi et le mouvement est Dievturiba, d'après ce dieu. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8946/MYTHO1.html
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| | Fanuklubs.lv - Svētku dienu vairāk nekā darba dienu? |
| | augusts — Vissvētās Jaunavas Marijas debesīs uzņemšanas svētki —, dievturi grib sev sešas svētku dienas gadā, nerimstas kreiso deputātu prasības atjaunot 8. |
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http://www.fanuklubs.lv/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=145
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| | Vecaki, kas uzskata, ka kristiga maciba ir pretruna ar vinu religisko vai filozofisko parliecibu (musulmani, budisti, dievturi, Visariona sektas piekriteji, atejisti (no varda ateja), karojosi agnostiki, rozenkreiceri, Jehovas liecinieki, Sorosa pieludzeji, munisti u.c.) vares sutit savus bernus uz etikas nodarbibam. | | | Tur skolotajs viniem macis, ka vecaki jaklausa, ka zagt nedrikst, ka kakiti nevar aiz astes raustit – bet bez religiska pamatojuma, atskiriba no vinu klasesbiedriem paraleli notiekosajas ticibas macibas stundas. |
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http://www.politika.lv/board.php?id=106861&lang=lv&t=item&i=117294
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| | ++AlterNative++ alternative.lv |
| | PIRMS TAAS DIEVTICIIBAS IEVIESHANAS LATVIJAA MUUSU SENCHI BIJA DIEVTURI. | | | IISTAA TICIIBA(TAVAA IZPRATNEE) IR NEDZIIVOT AR TICIIBU,BET GAN NEST TO SEVII, KO? |
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http://www.alternative.lv/forums.php?sub=2411&
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