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About Varjojen Kirja
Varjojenkirja.com, affectionately called VeeKoo or simply Varjojen Kirja, was founded in 2004. It is a free, independent website devoted to nature religions, witchcraft, paganism, and modern pagan traditions. It is entirely free of commercial interests and tracking.
The website is known as one of Finland’s oldest pagan websites. Over the years it has weathered storms and turmoil, been the target of attacks both physical and spiritual, and been condemned, praised, hated, but above all loved as a source of information about paganism.
Background
VeeKoo was founded one autumn evening in 2004 by a witch who goes by the name Unenkulkija. Like generations of his family before him, he has spent his adult life seeing, living, and doing witchcraft. These days he lives among the forests, beside the rushing waters of the dead, with his own circle of witches, and closes his eyes beneath the darkness of a star-filled night sky.
The website underwent a major renewal in 2009, carried out by Unenkulkija together with his beloved wife, Karhuntassu. Now, two decades later, it has been renewed for the third time to celebrate its anniversary and to live up to its name: a place for knowledge and reflections on witchcraft and paganism.
We have worked to modernize not only the appearance and functionality of the website, but its contents as well. Older or fragmented material has been cleared away. If you are looking for an old article, you may have quite a search ahead of you: not everything was retained through the changes.
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Contents
The anniversary edition of VeeKoo contains both old and new material, written by us and drawn from earlier versions of the site, but not a scrap of blue. It brings together older articles and information that we have expanded and developed as well as we can.
Most of the work on the revised and new material has been carried out by Mr VeeKoo himself, Unenkulkija. Karhuntassu, Unikarhu, and our contributor Puolikanta have helped with quality control and additional content.
Alongside renewing the contents, we have sought to improve comfort, compatibility, ease of use, and accessibility, so that people of different backgrounds and abilities can use the site.