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LATVIA, PILTINKALNS
21.06.2006
PHOTO: ESPEN RASMUSSEN
The night between the 21st and 22nd of June, the pople of Latvia is celebrating the shortest night of the year, the midsummer. This night, they are turning away from Christianity and worships the pagans Gods.
The shortest night of the year is over. The sun is rising in the horizon, and there is complete silence among the worshipers at the hillside outside Piltinkalns.