Maslinitsa is another Slavic pagan celebration that was incorporated into Christianity/Russian orthodox religion. Most Russian people know that this is a pagan celebration from slavic folk tradition. It involved the whole community, and gave an opportunity for people to come together and celebrate the end of winter, and return of warm season. That’s why it involves pancakes because that’s a representation of the sun, and also an effigy is usually burnt in a big bonfire and Russian people hold hands and dance in circle around the burning effigy

Our ancestors were self-sufficient, and part of that was their ability to heal themselves without having to rely on government healthcare system. Our ancestors healed themselves with natural remedies by using herbs/plant species, berries, spices, honey, dairy, oils, minerals, shells, and other natural Products and substances. They collected their medicine from the living pharmacy which was forests, oceans, lakes rivers, caves, etc... I don’t trust written official information on how our pagan ancestors healed themselves, because the official sources describe our ancestors as ignorant & superstitious. After the coming of Christianity sometime in middle ages that’s when we see stupid practices like cutting a sick person to bleed them, or saying mentally ill person is possessed by the devil. I don’t believe pre-Christian ethnic cultures had such practices. If you visit any indigenous, ethnic cultures that still keeps to their old ways, you’ll see that they still have some traditions & knowledge that survived from the old world. Like for example, growing up in Russia Rostov-on-Don almost every older woman knew older Slavic traditions, medical practices, natural remedies, etc... I remember my mother talking about the knowledge that passed down orally from her Slavic ancestors about different wildflowers, and what they are used for... She also used mustard on me when I had bronchitis, and help me breathe in the steam from boiling potatoes. For sore throat they would give me hot tea with lemon and honey and homemade raspberry preservatives. Another thing was hot milk with lemon and honey. There are many such natural remedies they used on me and my siblings when we were growing up in Russia. It wasn’t that my mother individually knew about specific wildflowers, spices herbs and berries that were used as medicine. Everybody there knew it. It’s just a knowledge that everybody shared.

As far as I know, every tribe/village had their local seer/sage/shaman/medicine man/medicine woman, etc... They healed both physical illnesses & mental. For mental illnesses & depression, they did shamanic rituals. If I’m not mistaken, Psycho active plants and mushrooms were used to put person into trance like state, while the seer/sage/shaman did his/her part to tap into spiritual realm/or subconscious mind of a person to trying to identify the current mental illnesses, face it, and heal the person.

It was tradition in many countries to use a spring tonic to jumpstart your immune system after a long winter without optimum nutrition.https://www.otherworld-apothecary.com/articles/spring_tonics.php

Speaking of natural remedies, I remember something similar to this was done to me when I was little growing up in Russia.

This is one of the plants my mother told me about when we still lived in Russia rostov-on-Don. She told me everybody knew about healing power of this plant. She told me about more plants, but this is the one that comes to mind

Coltsfoot has been used in herbal medicine and has been consumed as a food product with some confectionery products, such as Coltsfoot Rock. Tussilago farfara leaves have been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally (as tea or syrup) or externally (directly applied) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, locomotor system, viral infections, flu, colds, fever, rheumatism and gout. An extract of the fresh leaves has also been used make cough drops and hard candy.[

Dr Leonid Sharashkin says every garden has to have at least one beehive. He explains how people can keep bees naturally and almost for free with a very high success rate. Dr. Sharashkin says keeping bees naturally is simple, all you need to do is provide the bees with good home, and they will do the rest. When you set up a proper bee house in a tree, the bees will come same as how birds come when you set up a bird-feeder, or a birdhouse. He points out the importance of inviting the local strain of wild bees that are linked to your environment, ecosystem & climate, rather then buying bees from bee supply companies... Even disease control can be done naturally, and this is how beekeeping has been done for thousands of years.


Dr Sharashkin's Qualifications 
After receiving a Master's degree in Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Management from Indiana University at Bloomington, he headed the Conservation Finance and Economic Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Russia) in Moscow. During this time he also served as editor of Russia's largest environmental magazine, The Panda Times.
Dr Sharashkin wrote his doctoral dissertation on the spiritual, cultural and economic significance of the Russian dacha gardening movement, at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0V9U54jgow&feature=share

Belobog

‘Irij Garden’ by Andrei Shishkin.

Irij is a mythical place in Slavic mythology

I respect people like them. These two brave individuals are not just talking about change, they’re actually doing it. I think it’s amazing what they are doing. They are learning how to be fully self-sufficient, which will make them truly free. By the next generation, their kin-domain will grow, and they will add on more structures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UswPcrGIs&feature=share

Dazbog

YouTube channel “Men of the West”

Introduction to channel: https://youtu.be/TpuFJ9O6Og8

Veles is my favorite Slavic god. I like that Veles is the god of earth. Veles is loosely related to Greek Dionysus, and has parallels with other horned deities/Gods. The Celtic Cernunnos, the Greek Dionysus, Veles and Vedic Shiva have snake and bull among their symbols.

Official sources list many attributes and associations on Veles, but I see Veles as an earthbound god, much like the faerie folk. They are creatures of earthly nature. I don’t believe Veles lived together with the other gods in some otherworldly realm of the gods. Veles is tied to earth.

I’ve read that Veles is god of underworld and the dead, but if so, exactly where does this come from? Which authentic sources say this, and how do these sources define the underworld? Supposedly, gods like Perun were considered as gods of the heaven, and Veles was god of underworld. I’m far from an expert on this subject, but to me this doesn’t seem like a correct way of looking at the gods.

It’s also said that Veles is associated with cattle, but I see Veles as being associated with the entire animal kingdom, and with the animalistic part of the human psyche/consciousness.

I think Veles is also associated with pleasures of life, altered consciousness, state of ecstasy, sexuality, fertility, intoxication, hypnosis, seduction, trickery, mischief,music, dancing, magic... To me Veles is associated with this earthly realm, and wild, untamed nature... This is only my personal interpretation, and my belief of what Veles represents.

For the main part, I’m drawn to Veles, because of his earthliness, and might I say his humanness. When I say I love the earth, I actually mean it. I really do love earth. Seeing harm being done to earth hurts me emotionally. I do look to the stars, and do wish to voyage across the universe. I am curious about what is out there in deep space, but my heart is here on earth. No other planet compares to our earth...