This is a place where those who feel the ancients had a true path to understanding life meet. Our ancestors found the inner strength and balance which we can today transform into the principles for a better future for all of us.
We’ve been devoted to our work for more than a decade here in Slovenia, Europe and now we wish to spread the love for our heritage globally through our art, our products and especially our stories.
Storyline
2008
- We design and release our first mythological calendar and contribute to annual Pagan celebrations with a Slavic touch to them
2009, 2010
- We publish wall calendars and continue to research Slavic traditions to incorporate them in Slovene Pagan movement, writing articles and making designs for 3 editions of “Pan Pogan” magazine
2011
- We carry on with designing and publishing calendars, which has since been our signature item for 10 years
- We begin to build our own community where we gather for annual celebrations of the old ways in central Slovenia four times a year, collaborating with Slovene Native Faith Society (“Slovenski staroverci”), which we have co-founded
2012
- We start the company VELES grafika, selling calendars, amulets, booklets for children, mugs, shirts, and more products with Slavic themes
- We continue to organise events and gatherings within the Veles community
2013
- We created a website of sacred places in Slovenia with maps and info
- Our wooden Slavic pendants are sold in Slovene stores and we write articles for magazine “Life”
2014
- We establish the non-profit organisation Klub VELES and organize first Slavic fair (Staroslovanski semenj) in Ljubljana for a few hundred people who sell Slavic-themed items, including herbs, we organized lectures throughout the day and finished the fair with a small concert
- We started a small online shop and built a big organic garden, researching plant growth using old symbols
2015
- We organize second Slavic fair, promote our work through radio and TV, and establish a contract with one the biggest local public educational institutions (Cene Štupar) for a certified program about Slavic mythology and old practices, spanning multiple months
2016
- We organize third Slavic fair and we start cooperating with Jage Babe folk group that specializes in singing old Slavic ritual songs, specially local, researching Eastern practices, rediscovering Reiki, face reading techniques and fortune telling from the Viking runes
2017
- We organize fourth Slavic Fair with traditional songs and short lectures
- We open a hypno-center under VELES organisation, cooperating with one of the best hypnotherapists, giving lectures about personal growth (living today with Slavic practices, hypnotherapy, regression, face reading)
- We set up a programme to present the Slavic celebration of winter in a kindergarten
2018
- We publish a book about Face Reading technique – how to tell people’s personalities only by their facial characteristics, based on Chinese and European heritage
2019
- We publish another edition of our Face Reading book and continue with all previous engagements
2020
- Due to COVID-19 crisis our work slowed down and we only organised one public celebration (summer solstice)
- Our website has expanded with plenty of articles and our organic garden has grown largely
2021
- We create a new brand of products SVARUNICA – clothes, funny t-shirts, games, home decor and accessories with Slavic themes
- We are also updating our old items (the pendants) and developing new products, launching our online store globally