Charm of Sacred Groves

The film journey takes the viewer to sacred sites of Estonians’ nature-related and traditional culture – sacred groves. Sacred groves have been protected by religious traditions of country people and the nature there has been allowed to evolve uninterrupted. Therefore, each sacred grove has evolved into a distinctive ecosystem determined by local climatic, soil and water conditions. Many sacred groves have been well preserved to date, while some can be identified just by single signs in the landscape. The film gradually opens up our main wealth – the diversity of the surrounding natural life. This is wealth whose value as a source of balance and inner power we often do not comprehend. The singularity of perceiving this wealth and of Fenno-Ugrians’ boreal perception of life is something worth becoming aware of also in today’s fast paced rhythm of life.