Maavalla Koda

rdf:langString Maavalla Koda

rdf:langString Taarausuliste ja Maausuliste Maavalla Koda

rdf:langString Taarausuliste ja Maausuliste Maavalla Koda

rdf:langString Council of Elders

rdf:langString Non-profit, Estonian native religions

rdf:langString Maavalla Koda (literally House of the Native Land, short for Taarausuliste ja Maausuliste Maavalla Koda, Estonian House for Taaraist and Native Religion Followers) is a religious organisation uniting adherents of the two kinds of Estonian native religion or Estonian Neopaganism: Taaraism and Maausk. Maavalla Koda was registered as a union of religious associations (koguduste liit) in Estonia in 1995. The initial constituent members of the union were three local registered religious associations, (representing adherents from the south of Estonia), (with members from the north of the country), and (formed in the university town of Tartu). Later, Tartu Supilinna Koda has been renamed (after the river Emajõgi), and the newer association of Maausk adherents of the island Saaremaa, , has been admitted to Maavalla Koda. On the Estonian military NATO-standard dog tag (identifier), adherents of Taarausk and Maausk are identified with the abbreviation EST. A runic calendar noting festivals of the Estonian traditional religion is published annually by Maavalla Koda. The current focus of activity of Maavalla Koda is on traditional natural sacred sites in Estonia, with the aim of mapping and doing folkloristic research in order to preserve and perpetuate the local traditions relating to these. Along with the University of Tartu, Maavalla Koda co-operates in a government programme initiated to ensure the documentation and protection of natural sacred sites in Estonia.

rdf:langString 1058 (in 2000)