In the Waspnest neighbourhood, Good Friday marks the start of a week long period where the whole town is overlooked by a massive illuminated crucifix. Whilst the God fearing town dwellers are busy doing God fearing things (vigils around crucifixes in the town centre being one of the more personally annoying ones), the more atheistic residents engage in a battle with the righteous to see who wins the annual “remove bulbs from the crucifix” game. After a few false starts last year with the odd bulb broken in the day and replaced at night, the local Satanist element scored a victory by removing the lower bulbs from the cross to leave a still impressively large inverted crucifix watching over the town for the evening. Needless to say, the righteous had replaced the missing bulbs the following evening but I am sure it caused a mass outbreak of genuflection whilst causing some amusement among the non-believers.

Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of the inverted cross incident but I do have a photograph of the cross itself in all its glory. Bear in mind that this crucifix stand atop a hill above the town and can be seen everywhere. For scale, the guy standing at the bottom of it is a full 2 meters tall (Tere minu sõber) – I am sure you get the idea of how large this thing actually is.

The text in brackets above is Estonian in case you were wondering - if not, please move along.