Karste hiietamm

The sacred oak of Karste village in Kanepi parish, known locally as the Kuku oak, has been standing nearly dead for a long time. Its holiness has not died with it, though: two young oaks growing beside the old trunk have taken over its role, and archaeologists surveying south-east Estonia's sacred sites in 2012–2013 found that local people still visit the spot often. The handover from the dying tree to its successors is a living example of how a sacred place can outlast the individual tree that first made it holy.