July 21. Chilling at the forest chill-out at Yaga fest, i was reading a book on Lithuanian pagan religion by Algirdas Greimas (translated in belarusian by S. Šupa).

After reading chapter about offerings to fire (ugnis), i went to the ‘healing area’ to check what’s going there. Alas, a workshop on meditation had just finished. But before i could feel a glimpse of regret, a man appeared and announced that “in 15 minutes ancient ritual of offering to fire (’ugnis auka ritualas’) will take place here”…

Exciting? Yes - to observe\participate in a (Krishnait reinterpretation of) old vedic ritual - one of those that have roots in old indoeuropean religion - is exciting. And to participate in it just after reading about similar rituals that existed in this country couple centuries ago - that is _really_exciting_.

Basically it was agnihotra’ ritual - offering of rice grains to Agni.

During the ritual a strange and funny thing happened. Just before we started throwing rice grains into sacred fire to clear our karma, a cute Saintbernard puppy came to me and started to eat my ‘bad karma’ right from the plate. Who knows, maybe he was avatar of Krishna himself :)

One of the most exciting things about this experience is that it somehow re-established lost ‘indoeuropean unity’. Thousands of years after indoeuropean people separated and followed their paths in space and time to became Baltic, Slavic, Germanic etc ‘tribes’, people from that tribes - from many european countries, driven by love to psy-trance music, came to a mystical forest in the heart of Lithuania (a country, where remnants of old religion survived longer than elsewhere) - and participated in ritual of their common ancestors. This is true miracle.