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Rīga
11. Novembra krastmala |
Lielais KristapsGreat Christopher |
Michael Brinkmann & Ģirts Upītis
1683 (1997) |
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RĪGAS LEĢENDA "Senos laikos, kad Rigas vēl nav bijis, gara auguma un stiprsvīrs, saukts par Lielo Kristapu, nesis cilvēkus pāri Daugavau. Tās labajā krastā Kristaps bija uzcēlis būdu. Reiz naktī guļot Kristaps izdzirdis, ka Daugavas kreisajā krastā raud bērns palicis tik smags, ka Kristaps tik ar lielām pūlēm varējis to pārnest. Noguldījis savā un arī pats aiz noguruma aizsnaudies. Nākošajā rītā, kad Kristaps pamodies, bērņs bija pazudis, bet, kur tas bija gulējis, atradās liela kaste ar zelta naudu. Kad Kristaps nomira, par viņa būdā atrasto naudu uzcelta Rīgas pilsēta."
Pēc tēlnieka Mihaela Brinkmana 1683, gadā izgatavotā LEGEND OF RIGA "Once upon a time, long ago, before the city of Riga wasfounded, a tall strong man named Lielais Kristaps (Big Christopher) carried people across the river Daugava. Kristaps lived in a cabin on right bank of the river. While sleeping one night, Kristamps heard a small child crying on the other side of the river. He immediately rose to fetch the child, and began to carry it across the river. Half way across, the child became so heavy that Kristaps barely managed to get to the other bank. Exhausted, he laid the child down to sleep in his shack, and fell asleep himself. The following morning Kristaps awoke to find a large chest of gold coins where the child had been. Upon his death, the money was used to found the city of Riga, the first building was build on the spot where Kristaps cabin had once stood."
Gints Upitis in 1997 made copy of the original wooden |
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Sia "Rīgas nami" dāvinājums Rīgai 800 gadu jubilejā. |
'Rigas houses' Ltd. Donation for Riga's 800th anniversary. |
The legend of Big Christopher "Lielais Kristaps", the city's protector from floods and other natural disasters, tells us that in the 3rd century a giant of a man, Offero, who lived in a small cave on the bank of the Daugava, would help carry travelers across the river.In 1682, Michael Brinckmann made a 2.36 meter high wooden statue of Christopher that was erected near the present Alberta laukums, at that time on the bank of the River Ridzena (which now flows underground). The statue, which was often covered with ribbons and flowers, was so well-liked that it was the only catholic statue that survived the Calendar Uprising of 1584.One dark, stormy night a little boy came to him and asked to be carried across the river. Offero's kind heart could not refuse the little boy, so he took him on his shoulder and carried him through the lashing waves. With each step the weight of the child became heavier and heavier. However, the big man finally arrived at the other shore and gently put the child down on dry land.
The boy then revealed himself as Christ, and explained that he was so heavy because he bore the weight of the sins of the world on himself. He then baptized Offero and renamed him Christopher "Christ-bearer".
After returning home, the humble giant found a pile of gold, which, if the story is to be believed, he used to build Riga.
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