In Slavic culture the small pure water springs that are located under old large trees were always considered sacred/divine. Slavic folklore, and old tales often mention these little springs, usually beneath old large Oak trees. Old Slavic seers, wise men & women used the water from these springs for their rituals. Collected morning dew water was also used for such rituals. After Christianization happened, the Orthodox church either destroyed, or laid claim to, and started using the old pagan sites, and buildings. I’m sure in some villages, the Slavic peasants continued to revere these springs under old trees, and treat them with respect even after Christianization. The springs were no longer looked at as being connected to their native pagan faith, because they were forced to change it for Christianity, but the springs remained sacred/divine
As you can see the church placed their cross here to claim this old pagan Slavic site. The church publicly declared to cleanse these sites of evil pagan spirits, and make these sites pure by blessing them and placing their cross on the site. In my opinion, it is the church that these sacred pagan sites must be cleansed of.
I saw Allan Savory’s presentation on TED talk years ago. I don’t usually listen to the guests that come on TEDTalk, but what this guy was saying caught my attention. He was saying that our modern industrial agriculture practices are causing desertification (the process by which fertile land becomes desert.) He believes that the cattle must freely graze the land everywhere to keep the land from drying up, and becoming a desert. Modern industrial farming removed all of the wild grazing herds off of the land, and locked them up behind farm walls. Nature intended for the herds to graze the land everywhere. The grazing herds were a vital part of the natural earth’s ecosystem. They were meant to naturally graze the land, because their hooves create seed-to-soil contact, helping dormant seeds to germinate and establish. They break soil crusts that keep seeds from growing. They trample standing vegetation into mulch that protects the soil and keeps it moist. Their saliva and waste helps to keep the soil naturally fertilised.
https://youtu.be/q7pI7IYaJLI
https://youtu.be/q7pI7IYaJLI
I think it’s hideous! Poor animals. They were so much better of back in the olden days when they lived in small scale family farms, out in nature. Together with their mom, and friends, grazing the green grass under the sun. This disgusting way of mass producing animals as if they were things, and not living beings is the result of modern industrial revolution, and urbanization. Modern urban cities replaced older small communities/tribes/clans/villages, where people lived in small numbers, and they lived an organic natural lifestyle, and were self-sufficient in all ways. Now people are crammed by the hundreds of millions into smaller urban spaces, they require this type of factory farming of animals, which is a unnatural, very wrong and cruel way of raising animals. In fact, modern urbanization of humans is no different than factory farming of animals.
https://youtu.be/Q2Hzd__Vqms
https://youtu.be/Q2Hzd__Vqms