# Slavic Paganism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Slavic Paganism
Rodnovery (modern revival)
c.500 BCE – c.1200 CE · Indigenous / Folk · Revived / Reconstructed · Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.550 CE Procopius describes the Slavs worshipping a maker of lightning and sacrificing cattle.
- 980 CE Vladimir of Kiev erects a pantheon of idols in Kiev, apparently attempting a reformed state paganism.
- 988 CE Vladimir converts to Byzantine Christianity and has the Perun idol beaten and thrown into the Dnieper. Rus Christianisation begins.
- 1168 CE Danish forces destroy the temple of Svetovid at Arkona — the last major organised Slavic pagan sanctuary.
- 12th–15th c. Sermons continue to complain about people praying to wells, groves and Rod, which is how we know the practice continued.
- 1990s–present Rodnovery revival after the fall of the USSR, ranging from apolitical reconstructionists to explicitly ethnonationalist groups.
### Sources
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