These are photos of unknown author from Hill of Crosses.
It has more than 50,000 crosses on it, and no it is not a cemetery.
The reasons for the crosses to be there is that there is a story that each one who would put his own cross on this mountain would become a lucky guy, so thousands come here and install their custom crosses.
They say this tradition appeared before the Christianity came to Lithuania and Russia and is of pagan origin.
And a video clip about this place:
i have been there..and it is really amazing
That place looks cool.
Bin really unlucky lately, and I want to go there.
Where exactly is this place?….How can i get there????
The hill is located near Siauliai city, near Lithuania/Latvia border. It is very close to the road Riga(Latvia)-Siauliai. You can fly to Riga and then go there.
Is think this is very macabre :S.
You call that macabre? What do you think of this?
http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/kutna-1.html
kutna hora is pretty neat, surprised they don’t get more visitors…
They do get some… I thought Karlovy Vary and Kutna Hora are pretty standard excursions for people visiting Prague.
Lol and this is horrible
Yeah, considering that the cross was a Roman torture device for non-citizens. What if the hill was full of gallows?
That is the place where my previous body was buried. I’m a Buddha-7.
Buddha-9 is the one who would be really cool, he would make anyone else a Buddha-9 instantly on contact. This would get the whole world into Nirvana pretty quickly.
You might have a buddha belly or like to smoke the buddha but you are no buddhist.
BTW, are you a SPEA (School of Public & Environmental Affairs) prof or a real environmental engineering prof? I think you are SPEA.
I was just curious. I didn’t have you pegged as the super analytical egghead type. However, I knew you were smarter that the geeky history majors on here that flip burgers at McDonald’s for a living.
Indeed…Life of Brian?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Crosses
CB,
Whistling away “Always look on the bright side of life” Heh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
i just need to say this…..russian pride its world wide:D:D
SLAVA SLAVANIAM…….
lithuanians are not russians
i’m a bit drunk when i post this so…..
Never thought to hear that from a finnish alcholic….ONLINE
Uh, maybe I’m missing something, but what does this have to do with Russia? Stop advertising your tiny, attention whoring countries, damnit.
“These are photos of unknown author”
You sure about that?
What about billy-red livejournal — who got the images from flickr.
NAME YOUR SOURCES!!!
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Hi,
Just wondering, what russia has to do with it?! I mean its catholic think hill of crosses, and russians even have different kind of cross. I mean if rusians occupated lithuania for a certain time (cant remember how many years) so it doesnt mean that everything what owns and has lithuania, it belongs to them as well. And we had that hill of crosses even before russians had anything to do with lithuania
Russia has nothing to do with it, its catholic thing!!!! And they even wanted to destroy it. So if we were in sovietic union for 50 years, so it doesnt mean, that everything what belongs to us, what we created it belongs to them as well. From Wikipedia:
Most recently, the site took on a special significance during the years 1944-1990, when Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union. Continuing to travel to the Hill and leave their tributes, Lithuanians used it to demonstrate their allegiance to their original identity, religion and heritage; it was a venue of peaceful resistance. Although the Soviets worked hard to remove new crosses, and bulldozed the site at least three times (including attempts in 1963 and 1973).[4] There were even rumors that the authorities planned to build a dam on the nearby Kulvė River, a tributary to Mūša, so that the hill would end up under water.[2]
This is a very macabre pagan thing. Someone should take a can of gasoline and burn it.
I think its offensive to say “lucky guy” because most people belive for miracles in really hard cases. And its part of religion
This is so beautiful. I can’t believe it only takes 6 minutes to walk through, as the man in the video said. I think I would spend a very long time there, looking at everything closely….and leaving a cross, of course.
XDDD
This place wouldn’t exist if not the for Russian, and later Soviet occupation of Lithuania. Especially during the Soviet occupation, this was one of the symbols of resistance. Bulldozed three times, rose again immediatelly after.
Been there, impressive. F*kking impressive.