{"id":8564,"date":"2017-05-14T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2017-05-14T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T22:08:20","slug":"8564","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8564","title":{"rendered":"New Pagan Temple in Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Ugis Nastevi?s \/ www.ugis.info<\/p><\/div>\n

A new Pagan (Dievturi)<\/a> temple has been built in Latvia, according to this article<\/a> (in Latvian). Relying on Google Translate, I read,<\/p>\n

Crowded opening event alongside Latvian pagan exile pagan representatives and sanctuary creation of the people involved was also attended by other ancient white dievest?bas common to both the Latvian and Lithuanian and Belarus, as well as the folklore group “curbs”, “Werewolves”, “Delve”, ” boat, “” torque “and” P?rkonie\u0161i “.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Monasteries and environmental objects layout vision developed by the pagan organization working group Valda Celma lead.<\/span> Building architect is Ainars Markvarts, sculptor – J?nis Karlovs, room design authors – Andrejs Broks and Egons Garkl?vs, the costs incurred by the operator Dagnis ??kur, “reveals the organization’s representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lokstene temple keeper of the Latvian Dievturu Sadraudze that combines ancient white dievest?bas successors contemporary Latvian.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sources tell me that the temple is on an island in the Daugava River<\/a>. “Operator” Dagnis ??kur is a businessman who owns a group of bakeries<\/a> and who paid for the temple. That is very traditional, if you think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Pagan (Dievturi) temple has been built in Latvia, according to this article (in Latvian). Relying on Google Translate, I read, Crowded opening event alongside Latvian pagan exile pagan representatives and sanctuary creation of the people involved was also attended by other ancient white dievest?bas common to both the Latvian and Lithuanian and Belarus, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201,5],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-latvia","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-8564","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11548,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11548","url_meta":{"origin":8564,"position":0},"title":"Interview with an American Pagan Studies Scholar in Latvia","author":"Chas S. 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