The following thesis is about ancient shrines in the area of Posočje and Kobarid, which were of special importance for Slovene Native Faith believers. Slovene Native Faith believers were very closely connected with nature and lived in harmony with it. They did not build their shrines, but believed that they were created by nature itself. Researcher and collector of folk tradition Pavel Medvešček collected notes and objects in his youth that give us an insight into the life of our ancestors, and also help us understand who the Slovene Native Faith believers really were. In this paper, I explore the relationship that today's visitors have towards ancient shrines and nature itself. For this purpose, I visited four locations in the area of Posočje and Kobarid where natural ancient shrines are located and conducted a total of 13 semi-structured interviews with people visiting those natural shrines. Despite the fact that today people no longer live in such close contact with nature, we realized that without it we cannot exist, that we are not the crown of creation and we should respect it more, similarly as the Slovene Native Faith believers did. People have begun to respect and turn to nature again and this is also a key conclusion of this thesis.
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