We use the terms Sayari Paganism and The Klana Way interchangeably. However, the two terms do represent two different aspects of the same Path.
What Is Sayari Paganism?
The Klana Way is a pagan tradition of Sayari Paganism. Sayari Paganism is a religion that views the Earth and her Nature to be not only sacred, but also a living being. We name this being Sayari.
Other cultures, religions and people have their own names for her. Some call her Mother Nature, others call her Gaia.
In Sayari Paganism, we view the Earth as Sayari’s body. Her soul, spirit, or life energy, however you wish to call it, is often called Nature as a general term by the general population.
Sayari is our mother and our home. We are cells of her body, much like our body has cells. All life on Earth are her children, and depend on her to live. Her health is affected by the health and actions of her cells, all of Klana Karichna and Klana Vejna.
Sayari Is Our Mother
Sayari is grandmother to all plants and animals. Her Daughter, Karichna, is mother to all humans, fish, birds, dogs and animal life as a whole.
All of Klana Karichna was born from the Womb of Sayari. A long time ago, the waters of Earth (Sayari’s Womb) began to grow life. This life was simple, single celled organisms. There wasn’t really any variation or different species of single celled organisms. There was just life. The fetus of Klana Karichna.
Over time, these first babies of Klana Karichna began to grow, to evolve and to change. They took different directions in their evolution. Regardless, all of Klana Karichna come from these first babies of Klana Karichna.
The Story we tell goes like this, in brief.
In Sayari’s Womb began to grow a life, a small, simple life that she named Karichna. Karichna began to grow inside the Womb of Sayari, and had children of her own. Some of these children stayed inside Sayari’s womb, while others we born to the outside and crawled on the land that is Sayari’s body. Some of Karichna’s children were the dolphins, others the sharks, whales and various kinds of fish. Some of Karichna’s children were the dogs, the birds, the humans, the insects.
All of Karichna’s children are brother and sister, and are grandchildren to Sayari, the Great Mother of Klana Sayari.
It Is Important To Make Room For Our Great Mother Sayari
It is important that every follower of the Klana Way invite Sayari into their homes and their family. Sayari is our Grandmother, and is Great Grandmother to our children. Our children should know their Great Grandmother, and should see their parents treating her with love and respect.
It is important that we make room for Great Mother Sayari in our family and our home.
A Simple Sayari Shrine
Shrines are a great way to keep our minds focused on something positive. Shrines speak to our subconscious in a way that in indescribable. They have an effect on us.
Our family has a small, simple Sayari shrine set up in our living room. It’s nothing more than a small end table. We sit down with the kids for some craft time and using materials that we have found on our walks outside, we create decorations and gifts that we leave on the table. Our oldest son drew a picture of what he thinks the Great Mother looks like, and we hung it on the wall above the shrine.
We have pretty stones that we find and set on the shrine, and a couple of small pots with fresh soil in them. We never buy the soil, we just find a spot with good soil and we sift through it, removing any debris and trash that we find.
In these small pots we plant things. We often plan Lavender, but we also plant Oregano, a flower at times, anything at all. We plant them so that Sayari’s other grand children, the children of Vejna, can be with her. So that we can be together.
It also helps to set the symbolism up in our minds, especially for our children. The more energy we put into our little Sayari shrine, the more it feels like the spirit of our Great Mother is with us in our home and our family.
For those who haven’t heard of the Klana Way or of our Great Mother Sayari, it would be enough to know that Mother Sayari is called many names, some of which are: Mother Nature and Gaia.
A cosmology is a way of seeing the universe and everything in it. It is a way of explaining these things, of grouping them all together in a way that makes sense to us.
The Klana cosmology is explained in terms of families, called Klanas.
Klana Na’aja
Great Mother Na’aja gave birth to her daughter, Great Mother Aja.
Klana Na’aja, or The Family of No Thing, is what we call the state of existence before their was existence. This isn’t to say that at one time, there was absolutely nothing and the something came out of this nothing. Whether that is true we cannot truly say. It does seem logical, however. This is to say that without existence, there is non-existence.
For something to be in a state of existence, there must also be a state of non existence. First, I did not exist, and now I exist. When I die I will cease to exist.
All beings go through this cycle of non existence, existence, and a return to non existence. While we exist, we are able to cause others to exist as well. We are able to affect other’s existences.
Klana Na’aja is the non existence, and from Klana Na’aja comes Klana Aja. Na’aja is the mother of Klana Na’aja, and the grand-mother of many children.
Klana Aja
Klana Aja is the family made by Great Mother Aja, all of existence.
Think of the Klanas as families, or as people. Think of them giving birth to their children. Na’aja had a baby, and her baby was Aja. Aja is the mother of Klana Aja, the Family of Existence. Aja’s body is existence itself.
Aja is existence, the fact that existence is a thing. She is all things that exist. She too, had a baby. This baby is called Kojma.
Klana Kojma
Great Mother Kojma is the spirit of the universe, mother of the family Klana Kojma. Sayari is one of her daughters. Kojma is Mother Universe.
When Aja gave birth to Kojma, she gave birth to the universe. Some say that Kojma is still growing, that the universe is still expanding. As Kojma grows, she has many more children. These children are the family members of Klana Kojma, her sons children. Kojma’s body is the whole of the universe, and all of her children are cells of her body.
One of Kojma’s children is named Sayari.
Klana Sayari
Sayari is the spirit of the Earth, mother nature, and mother to Klana Karichna and Klana Vejna.
Sayari a being, she is an instance of existence much that same as you are a being, an instance of existence. Much the same as a tree is a being, an instance of existence. Her body is the planet Earth, and her spirit, her Chpiratnya, lives within it and within all of her children.
Sayari’s family is named Klana Sayari, and all of her children are a part of this family. Even though they have gone off and started families of their own.
Sayari gave birth to two babies, Karichna and Vejna.
Klana Vejna
Vejna is the mother of all plants, of all trees and flowers. She is Sayari’s daughter, and sister to Karichna.
Vejna is the spirit of all plant life, of all beings who breath in what we breath out. She is the spirit and mother of all plant life, all beings who breath out what we breath in. We are a part of Klana Karichna, and Vejna is sister to Karichna.
Vejna and all of her children support the life of Karichna and all of her children. The same is true in reverse, Karichna and all of her children support the life of Vejna and all of her children.
Without the other, the one would die.
Klana Karichna
Karichna is the mother of all life on Earth that breathes oxygen, sister of Vejna and daughter of Sayari. One of Karichna’s children is Sapyana, the mother of the spirit of the human species.
Sayari’s other daughter, Vejna’s sister, is named Karichna. Her family is Klana Karichna.
Karichna’s children are all beings that breath in Oxygen. All beings that breath in what the Children of Vejna breath out.
All of the fish, all of the birds… every dog and every cat. Every human. These are all Karichna’s children. All part of Klana Karichna, the Family of Karichna. We are all Sayari’s grand-children. Sayari can be seen as our grand-mother, or, as we prefer to call her… Our Great Mother.
Klana Sapyana
Sapyana is the mother of human beings, she is the spirit of human beings. She is daughter to Karichna, grand daughter to Sayari.
Karichna has had many children, we as human beings are her children. Karichna gave birth to Sapyana, the spirit of the human species. Sapyana in turn gave birth to all of us.
Because Sapyana was born, our mothers and fathers were born. As were their mothers and fathers. And so on and so on.
I hope you have enjoyed my little (long?) explanation on the Klanas. I will focus more on each individual Klana in separate posts. The Klana Way is a beautiful religion, and has a lot to offer and a lot to teach those who will listen. It is full of wisdom and wisdom is a truly beautiful thing.
Soon, you will see more and understand why it is called the Klana Way.
The Klana Way 