About a grove

For me, there is not much story about that grove. I've just been there for once. Though, what I know about it - there were records of the grove in folklore archives, but nobody actually knew where it was situated (because about it has never been a custom for our folklorists to ask for a grove's location, but only ask for stories and thoughts of groves...)

So, but in the village nearby there was a lady who was interested in that place and talked to old people, until she found somebody who told her where the grove was (or maybe even showed it, but it often happens that old people are not in a condition to come out of home and show anything).

--> that is because the groves are usually situated in woods / forest and there are no car roads leading to the place =) you know, Estonia is a wild wild country ;) So you always have to walk a bit on your own feet.

This particular photo (or one of that kind) ended up on the poster of Estonian folk metal band concert tour in protection of sacred groves. Well, on the poster it doesn't look like trees very much, because it's been Adobe-photoshopped quite a lot :)

But i like the picture, the way you look at treetops... while being asif inside the tree at the same time. I think this linden circle is one tree, because lindens grow like that - one linden gives children and they form a circle. Thus, with many trees having grown the for ages, this circle might be really old :)

What is special to me about groves, is the knowing that my ancestors have visited them on the very same reasons as i do, for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. They have stood there under the trees and admired their beauty; perhaps asked for something -help- from the gods or nature spirits...

In general there should be at least 500 groves in Estonia (on that about 45 000 square kilometres we have here) - or they must have been during the late history, but... i'm afraid many of them have been destroyed. But there are also many groves which have not been recorded and we keep finding them.