Volodymyr Shaian
Ukrainian linguist and religious leader
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- PhD Linguistics Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Volodymyr Petrovych Shaian was a Ukrainian linguist, philologist and Orientalist-Sanskritologist. He was a pioneer of Slavic Native Faith in Ukraine during the interwar period. Biography Shaian was educated at the University of Lviv. In 1934, he had a spiritual revelation at the top of Mount Grekhit in the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains. According to him, this inspired him to seek a pagan renewal. Shaian proposed a "pan-Aryan" approach to European paganism, developed in opposition to National Socialist Germany's focus on the Germanic world. Shaian presented his vision of a "pan-Aryan renaissance" in a paper at an Indologist seminar in Lviv in 1937. Shaian's theology was polytheistic and viewed God as a manifold essence that manifests itself through the various deities of Slavic mythology.
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