«The person, who has forgotten his past, is not worthy of the future!» — our grandfathers used to say so.

Ukrainian people have an omen, that parents, who do not observe the customs of their ancestors, give birth to children «vovkulaks». A «vovkulak» is a gloomy, unsociable person, who is always unsatisfied with something, who avoids visiting a church, who does not know and does not observe customs and traditions. On the saint George’s day he becomes a wolf and runs around forests with other animals till winter Mykolay’s day, and then he transforms into a person again.

Since ancient times, beginning with the skythians, people worshiped pagan gods in Ukraine, such as Svarog, Yarylo, Dazhdbog, Veles and other. Certain rites and rituals have appeared in connection with that. A set of pagan rites passed into christianity, after Kyiv Rus was baptized, they were improved and kept till now, although not in full volume. At first look some rites and traditions may seem already unnecessary in their lives to some people. But it is a root of life for the soul and heart of a person, which makes him or her a person, it is a mystery of human being, the sense of life of a person on the earth.

Each guest of Hutir, having gone out of an automobile, immediately gets into a different time — into the ХIХ–th century, and becomes a guest of a friendly, united Ukrainian family, which lives by the customs of a way of life many centuries long. A Ukrainian family observed strictly religious and ritual traditions from the birth to death in behaviour, nutrition, songs and clothes. All these things were formed during many centuries and by many generations. It is a whole layer of folk culture, of the way of life of the people, which are to be restored. Staff specialists of Hutir with appropriate education will revive and carry into life all these things. As a result of the intricacies of a museum and theatre a visitor will not just get into a roadside cafe, but he will change place in space and time into those ancient times, and he will be not just a spectator, but partially an actor of that theatre. He will be able to participate in threshing grain, in slaughtering an animal for preparation of food and other diverse activities of hutiryans of the XIX–th century.

But the true God has triumphed!