Just printed: Slovene Nature Centered, Native Faith - the state-of-the-art of Research / Naša vera - stara vera - vera v vesoljno naravo, stanje raziskav!
10/30/20232 min read
Marko Hren, October 2023
Symposia held in Kobarid, west SLovenia, are dedicated to revival of Nature Centered Faith, a genuine, authentic faith of people in Slovenia. The fourth symposia was dedicated to late dr. Gregor Lesjak, researcher, and high official of Slovene government, where he served for decades as a key expert for freedom of faith, the respect of constitutional rights in the field of religious freedoms and was instrumental to enhance pluralization of religious landscape in Slovenia. Dr. Lesjak promoted and supported research effort in the field of genuine, authentic, nature-centered faith. The research results by authors in quintuple helix of innovative approaches to studies of ethnic cosmologies, spiritual practices, beliefs and religions, were presented during Symposia in 2022 and are published now in a book, showing a rich, relevant and deep understanding of the historic discoveries of survival of Nature-centered faith in Slovenia. A research community in this interdisciplinary endeavour gathered in Kobarid on October 1st 2022 in preparation to European Cultural Capital GO 2025 program. The next symposia will be organized on the theme of Ethnic Spiritual Wind Instrument Kabrca, and the supreme spiritual Slavic deity Nikrmana – introductory hypothesis on these issues is presented in the volume, giving an overview of current state-of-the-art concerning the interpretations of Nikrmana. The author presents Nikrmana as NikaraMaanas, and compares it to Vedic Prajapati as a cosmological deity overarching the concept of MAANAS, MANA and other (also etymologically) comparable cosmological entities in the rich heritage of world genuine spiritualities.
Četrti zbornik prispevkov simpozijev, ki jih je Društvo slovenski staroverci organiziralo od 2017 dalje v Kobaridu, je - tako kot sam simpozij - posvečen dr. Gregorju Lesjaku (1965-2022) in njegovi veliki želji: da bi v Sloveniji nastala močna raziskovalna skupnost na področju proučevanja staroverstva. Na simpoziju so bile predstavljene najvidnejše knjižne izdaje iz obdobja 2020-2022 v založbi ZRC SAZU (dddr. Andrej Pleterski et.al), Društva slovenski staroverci, UPASANA – Akademije Staroslavov Hram, CICERON (avtorstvo Tine in Spomenka Hribar), Daše Medvešček, Borisa Čoka in Franca Šturma. V zborniku je vključena tudi najava vsebine V. simpozija o staroverstvu, ki pa bo že povsem osredotočen na program Evropske prestolnice kulture GO25, zato je v sklepnem delu predstavljen starosvetni inštrument kabrca in vez tega inštrumenta z duhovno entiteto Nikrmana, ki jo prvič v slovenskem prostoru razložimo skoz primerjavo dosedanjih interpretacij. Utrdimo prejšnje hipoteze o primerljivosti Nikramane (izpisane kot NIK@R@M@N@S) z Vedsko Prajapati.