Abstract

Let's compare the map of religions of the world and the map of the religious network of Ukraine. The first thing that catches the eye is the presence on our map of almost all those denominations that are on the first. We have virtually no Ukraine of our own, our own religions. Unless we can boast of our Great White Brotherhood. Therefore, all religious movements have been brought to us from abroad, and therefore are not in the full understanding of the word a manifestation of our ethnic mentality. They are either adapted to it, or they exist as something accidental, alien to our lives. Let us remember at least the Krishnaites who, in their tufts and sari, take to our snow-covered streets, sing the Ganges and offer us, as holy, His water to the Ukrainians. At the same time we have our national clothes, our native Dnipro-Slavuta. Think of the same Christianity that, in adapting to our reality, replaced the palm branches that threw at the feet of Jesus as he traveled to Jerusalem on the willow. Yes, and many other things it took for granted from the previous Ukrainian paganism, sort of assimilating it.