Unconventional Beliefs and Places of Power: Control Over Spiritually Dangerous Objects
📁 Operational Cases Against Spiritual Women
Cases were opened against “priestesses,” “ancestral guardians,” and “keepers of places” under code names such as:
- “Organizer of a Pagan Center”
- “Destructive Influence on the Population Through Earth Cult”
- “Anti-Soviet Association with Female Leadership”
These files contain testimonies from individuals who transmitted knowledge about the land, herbs, rituals, and places of power — granting women a special status within their communities.
🕯️ Uncontrolled Sacredness Observed in Ukraine
These include burial mounds, springs, pagan temples, sacred oaks, mountain peaks, and sites where communities performed rituals not governed by any official church.
Recorded regions: Trypillia, Podillia, Zakarpattia, Slobozhanshchyna, Chernihiv region, Volyn, Prykarpattia.
Reports state: “Local populations continue to perform ritual actions (prayers, ablutions, child consecrations, ancestral invocations) despite the absence of official sanction.”
📜 Meta-2 Document (1994) Analysis
After gaining independence, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) adopted former KGB methods. In 1994, an internal document titled “Meta-2” was created, analyzing the influence of “informal communities” on social stability.
“The strengthening of female-led ritual practices based on the ‘motherland’ leads to a mystification of space not controlled by the state. The emergence of new forms of autonomy is possible.”
Recommendations:
- Conduct discreet surveillance of community gatherings near ancestral territories.
- Identify initiators in cases of public declarations about “ancestral land.”
- Block media presence of such movements by influencing local media outlets.
📍 Over 150 Sites Recorded with Anomalies
Over 150 sites were marked where the following were recorded:
- Anomalous magnetic fields.
- Mass gatherings of women during equinoxes, Kupala Night, and Mother’s Day celebrations.
- Strong folkloric “memory emissions” (e.g., songs, rituals not registered by any official institution).
In these places, “strange occurrences” often happened: dreams coincided, clocks stopped, and people “remembered more than they knew.”
Security services were aware that the land retains ancestral power, and women hold its keys. They feared not the rituals but the possibility that people would remember whose land it is and its purpose.
The entire system—from the KGB to the modern administration—restructured memory to exclude female presence from sacred territories.
1. Strategy to Remove Folk Heritage from Legal Discourse
Quote: “Traditional-national approaches to land (ancestral ownership, communities, spiritual land-use practices) are viewed as obstacles to market mechanisms and risks to investor stability.”
Proposal: Replace terms like “ancestral land ownership,” “communal land,” and “historically inherited territory” with neutral ones:
- “State fund”
- “Temporary targeted use”
- “Undefined legal status”
2. Methodology of “Forgetting”
Archival cleansing—oral directives for the irrevocable destruction of documents confirming the connection between clans and land (up to 1945). Hundreds of volumes of “hereditary rights registration books” were destroyed in village councils (notably in Western, Podillian, and Slobozhanshchyna regions of Ukraine). This was often done under the guise of “archive modernization” or “digitization,” but digital copies were not preserved.
3. Internal Negotiations with International Donors
The protocol states:
“The issue of preserving ancestral heritage should be removed from the agenda before the second phase of land reform begins. Ukraine must demonstrate that land is a free commodity, not a bearer of memory.”
Goal: “Eliminate emotional-spiritual coloring from texts”—a direct quote.
Authorities deliberately erased the connection between people and land, altering not only laws but also the language in which this connection existed. This is a ritual of forgetting, formalized through legal mechanisms. The land, as a living entity, was “renamed” so it would no longer remember its lineage.
Archive of the Verkhovna Rada. Session of the Specialized Committee (Land Law):
Discussion of the “land market” concept.
Internal memo:
“If ancestral land heritage is recognized as a legal precedent, the privatization system cannot be fully implemented.”
This is explicit: recognizing ancestral heritage hinders privatization. Therefore, it was officially removed from the legal framework.
Legal-Mystical Conclusion (Final)
Clans that owned land since Cossack, peasant, Galician, and Sloboda traditions lost their connection to the land not because it disappeared, but because it was excluded as a legal category.
The state removed the soul from property rights, turning it into a market commodity, not a lineage.
