Editing Modern paganism (section)

====Chuvash====
{{main|Vattisen Yaly}}

The [[Chuvash people]], a [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] ethnic group native to an area stretching from the [[Volga Region]] to [[Siberia]], have experienced a pagan revival since the fall of the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Chuvash culture"/> While potentially considered a peculiar form of [[Tengrism]], a related revivalist movement of Central Asian traditional religion, [[Vattisen Yaly]] ({{langx|cv|Ваттисен йӑли}}, ''Tradition of the Old'') differs significantly: the Chuvash being a heavily [[Finnic peoples|Fennicised]] and [[Slavic peoples|Slavified]] ethnicity and having had exchanges also with other [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] ethnicities,<ref name="Stetsyuk">Valentin Stetsyuk. ''Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Ethnogenic Processes in Eastern Europe and Asia, The Turkic Tribe Bulgar in Eastern Europe''. Lviv, Ukraine.</ref> their religion shows many similarities with Finnic and Slavic paganisms; moreover, the revival of Vattisen Yaly in recent decades has occurred following modern pagan patterns.<ref name="Filatov">Sergei Filatov, Aleksandr Shchipkov. ''Religious Developments among the Volga Nations as a Model for the Russian Federation''. Religion, State & Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1995. pp. 239–243</ref> Today the followers of the Chuvash Traditional Religion are called "the true Chuvash".<ref name="Chuvash culture">''[http://www.chuvashculture.org/node/42 Chuvash faith and beliefs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815034949/http://www.chuvashculture.org/node/42 |date=15 August 2009 }}''. Chuvash Culture Portal.</ref> Their main god is Tura, a deity comparable to the Estonian [[Tharapita|Taara]], the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] [[Thor|Thunraz]] and the pan-Turkic [[Tengri]].<ref name="Stetsyuk"/>