NARKŪNAI HILLFORT WITH LAIMĖ VALLEY AND SPRING

The valley stretches at the southeastern foot of the Narkūnai Hillfort, on the left bank of the Vyžuonas stream. The spring gushes out in a suffocating cirque about 10 x 12 meters in size. Brown-coloured, iron-flavoured water flows from the above-mentioned basin through a  54 54 53 25 m 48x41 m 88 Lithuania 89 Selonians S wide channel to Vyžuonas. Other health seekers used to sacrifice money here by throwing it into the water. The Narkūnai Hillfort, on the side of which there is a healthy spring, dates back to the 1st millennium BC - the beginning of the 15th century, according to archaeological research data. Laima, the Balts goddess of fate and happiness, enters the human world precisely through the waters. Laima itself flows like water, fate meanders like a river, happiness can be increased by splashing, and water washes away misfortunes. It was widely believed that Laima takes part in the first washing of the baby - the clearer this water of “happiness”, the happier the person will be. Furthermore, when drawing water from a well or a spring, you must be careful not to pour it back, because you will fill Laima’s eyes and start to have bad luck in life... Valley of Laima in Narkūnai with the Health spring is also extraordinary from the point of view that it forms an opposing pair to the mountain - the mound. (In Baltic mythology, the mountains belong to God and the valleys to Laima; this pair of gods very often work together).