Halyna Lozko


Halyna Lozko is Ukrainian ethnologist, theologian and neopagan leader. In 1993 she founded the group Pravoslavia in Kiev, which adhers to Slavic Native Faith in the tradition established by Volodymyr Shaian. Lozko also co-founded the Native Faith Association of Ukraine, founded in 1998 and registered on 24 May 2001.

Biography

Early life

Halyna Lozko was born in Yelanets, Mykolaiv Oblast, on 3 February 1952.

Education and academic career

She is currently employed at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.

Pagan revivalism

In 1993, Lozko founded the Kiev-based Slavic Native Faith group Pravoslavia. This was Ukraine's first post-Soviet neopagan organization in the polytheistic tradition that first had been established in the interwar period by Volodymyr Shaian. During the Cold War, Ukrainian Native Faith had mainly been carried on by the Ukrainian diaspora in the West, and Lozko was initiated by Myroslav Sytnyk in Hamilton, Canada. She has also launched projects such as the Svitovyd Center for the Rebirth of Ukrainian Culture, the School of the Native Faith, the Museum of the Book of Veles and the journal Svaroh. She co-founded the Native Faith Association of Ukraine in 1998, to coordinate activities between different local groups. ORU was officially registered as a pagan religious organization in 2001. It has made an effort to establish a comprehensive system for regular calendar ritualism. It has also been active in the neopagan interfaith activities of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions.

Publications (in Ukrainian)http://veda.dp.ua/?catalog&dep=196&id=322 Волхвиня Зореслава Лозко, Портал Славянской Ведической Культуры