Describe the Ossuary of Kunta Hora, explain why it was creepy/sublime.
The Ossuary of Kunta Hora is a small Roman Catholic church located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic. The story of the Ossuary is as follows, after the Black Death in the 14th century and the Hussite Wars in the 15th century many thousands of people had been burried in mass graves in Abbey cemetery, when the church was built the lower level was to be used as an Ossuary for the mass graves unearthed in construction, this task was given to a monk who stored the bones in the lower level of the church. Until a carpenter came along and decided to use the bones to make extremely creepy decorations because why not?
Today the Ossuary is a breeding ground for tourists for selfie sticks. The upper floor remains a chapel, but the lower floor is covered floor to ceiling with decorations made of human skulls, and nearly every other bone. While the Ossuary is labeled as a momentary, reminding us of our humanity, I see it as creepy and unneeded. The way I see it, all of the people who now are being used as Femur garlands already have suffered through the black death or the Hussite Wars. To me it seems incredibly disrespectful to dig up mass graves to turn once living breathing humans beings into a tourist trap. Sure we're all going to die, but when I die I don't want some crazy monk digging me up and putting my bones on display.
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