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Submitted by Aluta on Sunday, 10 February 2019  Page Views: 12560

Natural PlacesSite Name: Vottovaara Mountain
Country: Russia Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature

Latitude: 65.092500N  Longitude: 32.371944E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
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2Not Good
1Awful
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Vottovaara Mountain
Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Aluta : Mountain Vottovaara is a sacred place of ancient Saami people. Approximately 1600 sacred stones called “seids” are arranged here in a mysterious order. The mountain is located in Muezersky region. It is the highest peak in the West-Karelian highland (417 m). Its relief is highly broken. Nine thousand years ago there was a massive earthquake here. Together with tectonic and glacial activit... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Seids or seitas are objects or sites revered by the Saami people as representing nature or earth spirits. Found throughout the area once called Lapland, (now Karelia, Russia) they were constructed and revered in the distant past by the Saamis’ pre-Christian ancestors. They can take many forms, including constructions of wood or just secluded pools or valleys, but in this case the word refers to seid stones, which are stones or boulders, often of unusual shapes or placed in unusual ways. These are the megaliths of the ancient northern peoples.

In 1978 Sergey Simonyan found an ancient Saami worship complex, which unites both natural formations (the rocky amphitheatre which appeared as a result of an ancient earthquake, other signs of seismic and glacial activity), and classic sieidi-stones, the number of which according to some calculations exceeds 1500.

Vottovaara is the highest point on the West Karelian Hills (417.3 metres above sea-level) and is situated approximately at a distance of 30 km from Himola village and approximately in 20 km from Sukkajärvi village, to the east of the road connecting them.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080429 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Propped stone Site in Russia Image copyright: cernart (Cer Nart), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080514 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080488 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080471 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080411 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080396 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Andy B : P1080378 Site in Russia Image copyright: timothyskrylnik (Timothy Skrylnik), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Propped stone 'altar', Vottovaara Russia Image copyright: volen76 (Przemys), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : A rainbow over the Vottovaara. A tiny rainbow over the top of the mountain. We were hoping for that. Image copyright: Ilia Danilov (Ilia Danilov), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Site in Russia Image copyright: rsnhl66 (Olga K.), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Vottovaara, Karelia Image copyright: Leda_U (Leda Uvaysova), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Karelia Site in Russia Image copyright: DenisVasilev (Denis Vasilyev), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Petroglyph? Image copyright: murkinafaso, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr (1 comment)

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : A propped stone Looks like a hippopotamus... Image copyright: yjustlikethis (Yulia), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Mountain Vottovaara , Karelia , Russian north. Image copyright: dekart2068 (Dekart), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by Flickr : Goblin! A nice smiling stone, meeting everybody on the road. Image copyright: yjustlikethis (Yulia), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Vottovaara Mountain submitted by AlexAssa : Site in Russia

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Sieds of Vottovaara in North Western Russia under threat by Andy B on Sunday, 10 February 2019
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Aluta writes: "Stone blocks with smaller stones of top of them were everywhere. I climbed on top of one. Seids were ahead of me and on my left. I looked around and was stunned. SEIDS WERE EVERYWHERE! Big, small, of different shape and color, but those were seids. To say that I was taken aback is to say nothing! The whole surface of the plateau was covered with seids. Who put them here? For what purpose? Why so many?..." --a visitor to Vottovaara. Now a remote group of these sites are under threat, first from visitors, and now from mining activities.

Seids or seitas are objects or sites revered by the Saami people as representing nature or earth spirits. Found throughout the area once called Lapland, they were constructed and revered in the distant past by the Saamis’ pre-Christian ancestors. They can take many forms, including constructions of wood or just secluded pools or valleys, but in this case the word refers to seid stones, which are stones or boulders, often of unusual shapes or placed in unusual ways. These are the megaliths of the ancient northern peoples.

Usually these special stones are placed sparingly or singly, sometimes near stone rows or stone circles. But Vottovaara, a mountain in the Republic of Karelia, part of the Russian Republic, is host to a bewildering abundance of them, from 1000 to 1500 seids and other stone constructions all in one area.

Among the most striking features at Vottovaara are its propped boulders, sometimes called flying stones because of the way the boulders, often of interesting shapes, are elevated by smaller stones, making them seem as if they are lifting into flight. Some have pools of water either on their upper sides or in the solid rock beneath. An ancient belief that the water in those pools has healing powers survives among some people today.

While propped and perched boulders exist in many places in the world, most are solitary and therefore often called glacial erratics even by anthropologists, no matter how carefully they seem to have been propped. In Finland and western Russia, however, so many occur in association with one another or with other structures that the consensus is that many or most of them were placed by human hands, even though some weigh many tons.

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Re: Vottovaara Mountain by Andy B on Sunday, 10 February 2019
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Links to more images of Karelia and the Flying stones of Lapland http://www.marja-leena-rathje.info/archives/flying_stones_lapland
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Caucasian megaliths by coldrum on Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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Caucasian megaliths

This site is in Czech language, but there are some good photos of dolmens in Caucasus, Russia.
http://cestovani.idnes.cz/za-tajemnymi-dolmeny-do-hlubokych-lesu-kavkazu-frk-/igsvet.asp?c=A061208_154727_igsvet_tom

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Re: Vottovaara Mountain by Aluta on Wednesday, 02 January 2008
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The link reached when clicking on the name Vottovaara above shows spectacular sied stones, but they are not from Vottovaara. It is unclear whether they are from Russia or Finland or both, but they are all in what was once called Lappland.
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