Inija Trinkūnienė
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Inija Trinkūnienė (born 25 October 1951) is a Lithuanian ethnologist, folklorist, sociologist, psychologist, head of folk music group
Kūlgrinda (plural ; from the Samogitian 'stone' and 'pavement', itself from 'to rake, pull together') is a hidden, usually winding, underwater stony road or ford across swamps, swampy areas, lakes, or along rivers, used as a defense in the lands of ...
and the high priestess (''krivė'') of the Romuva community of the old Lithuanian faith. She became the high priestess after the death of the previous high priest (''krivis''), her husband
Jonas Trinkūnas Jonas Trinkūnas (28 February 1939 – 20 January 2014) was the founder of Lithuania's pagan revival Romuva, as well as being an ethnologist and folklorist. In the Soviet Union Trinkūnas was born in 1939 in Klaipėda. He finished primary sch ...
, in 2014. She is a founding member of the
European Congress of Ethnic Religions European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) is an organisation for cooperation among associations that promote the ethnic religions of Europe. She holds a master's degree in psychology from
Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...
. She was a featured speaker in the Indigenous Plenary Session at the Parliament of the World Religions in Toronto in 2015.


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2015 Address to 2015 Parliament of World Religions on YouTube.
1951 births Living people Lithuanian ethnologists Women ethnologists Lithuanian psychologists Lithuanian women psychologists Lithuanian sociologists Lithuanian women sociologists Lithuanian folklorists Lithuanian women folklorists Lithuanian modern pagans People from Kelmė Vilnius University alumni Performers of modern pagan music Modern pagan religious leaders Kūlgrinda (band) members {{ethnologist-stub