page_title: Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism
section_title: Ritual practice and pilgrimage
hierarchical_section_title: Ringing Cedars' Anastasianism / Ritual practice and pilgrimage
caption_attribution_description: Русский: IV Международный фестиваль «Звенящие Кедры» в селе Устинка Белгородского района, родовое поселение «Серебряный бор».
context_page_description: The Ringing Cedars or Anastasianism is a new religious movement, often classified as New Age, that started in central Russia in 1997 and has since spread across the world. Ringing Cedars' Anastasians are sometimes categorised as "Rodnovers", as many of them are proponents of the return to a Slavic Native Faith or other indigenous religion. Other scholars do not categorise them as Rodnovers, but as a distinct modern Pagan movement. Anastasianism has also been considered part of the broad spectrum of self-described "Vedic" religions arising in post-Soviet Russia.
  The movement is based on the series of ten books entitled The Ringing Cedars of Russia written by Vladimir Megre. The knowledge contained in the books is attributed to a beautiful woman named Anastasia, the embodied form of a deity, who dwells in the Siberian taiga, whom Megre met during one of his trade expeditions. At the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair, where the author drew a large crowd, it was claimed the books have sold 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated in 20 languages.
context_section_description: Anastasians engage in nature-worshipping ceremonies and individual rituals. Rituals for hallowing the "love spaces" are crucial for most believers. The Ringing Cedars also organise pilgrimages to various sites which they consider to be holy, where they believe they may communicate with the ancestors through meditation. These sites include megalithic buildings like the dolmens of North Caucasus, and sites on the Black Sea coast, especially Gelendzhik in the region of Krasnodar. Lithuanian Anastasians make pilgrimage to a holy site in Tverai.
caption: Ringing Cedars' believers performing ritual circle-dances on Kupala day.