According to the Ynglists, these theories would be proven by 13th-century documents preserved by a sect of the Christian Old Believers. Their previous name was "Righteous Christians" (Праведные Христиане, Pravednye Khristiane), and "Old Believers" referred instead to indigenous Slavic religion. The definition " Old Believers" (Староверы, Starovery), which today is employed to refer to Christians who preserved pre-Nikonian rituals, who are more correctly called the "Old Ritualists" (Старообрядцы, Staroobryadtsy), was imposed on the latter during the same Nikonian reform. The term "Russian" and related ones would derive instead from the Aryan root ros (рос), referring to "brightness" and "holiness". Prior to the reform, Christianity used the Greek-based loanword Ortodoksalnost (Ортодоксальность). The term, which means the right way of living in accordance with the law of the universe, was appropriated by Eastern Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs only by the 17th century, through the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, in order to wholly absorb the indigenous religion which was then still prevalent among the population. Īccording to Ynglist history and terminology, the Slavic term for "Orthodoxy", Pravoslavie (Православие, that like the Greek counterpart precisely means "right honouring", or "honouring" the "truth, order" ), is older than Christianity. They also call their religion "Orthodoxy" and "Old Belief". According to the Ynglists, the term has cosmological significance, referring to the order of the universe carried by the primordial fiery radiance - the Ynglia, personified as Yngly - emanated by the supreme God, Ramha.
The term "Ynglism" refers to the Ynglings, the oldest royal kins of Scandinavia, a branch of the early Indo-Europeans or Aryans, whom the Ynglists believe to have originated from the Omsk region of Western Siberia, Russia. The headquarters of the Ynglist Church in Omsk, in 2016, including the residence of Aleksandr Khinevich in the foreground and the Temple of the Wisdom of Perun (Капище Веды Перуна) in the background. The holy writings of Ynglism are the four Slavo-Aryan Vedas. After the central organisation in Omsk was dissolved, the movement proliferated into multiple groups in all the regions of Russia, and also in various countries of Europe and North America. In the mid 2000s the church faced judicial prosecutions for ethnic hatred, and Khinevich himself was convicted with probation between 20. Other Rodnover groups in Russia are strongly critical of Ynglism at a veche of Russian Rodnover organisations Ynglist doctrines were formally rejected. in accordance with the universal order, right), religious tradition of the Russians, of all Slavs, and of all white European " Aryans".
The Ynglists regard themselves as preserving the true, orthodox (i.e. The Ynglist Church was described by some scholars as having a complex and well-defined doctrine and liturgy, an authoritative leading hierarchy, and as focusing on esoteric teachings. The adherents of Ynglism call themselves " Orthodox", " Old Believers", " Ynglings" or " Ynglists". 1961) in Omsk, Russia, and legally recognised by the Russian state in 1998, although the movement was already in existence in unorganised forms since the 1980s. Ynglism ( Russian: Инглии́зм Ynglist runes: ), institutionally the Ancient Russian Ynglist Church of the Orthodox Old Believers–Ynglings (Древнерусская Инглиистическая Церковь Православных Староверов–Инглингов, Drevnerusskaya Ingliisticheskaya Tserkov' Pravoslavnykh Staroverov–Inglingov) is a direction of Rodnovery formally established in 1992 by Aleksandr Yuryevich Khinevich (b.