Mikytai Sacrifice Hill walking trail
Mikytai Sacrifice Hill. The height of the 1st millennium middle - 2nd millennium beginning Mikytai Sacrifice hill is 30 metres. According to legends, the Mikytai altar hill was erected by the Swedes; while in ancient times this was a place, where sacrifices used to be offered to gods. 2. Stone with a Devil‘s Footprint. A bumpy mythological stone of 4.5x2.5x4 m in size: “a foot with the heel”. According to the legend, a devil destroyed the church that stood on the sacrifice hill and pressed its foot into a stone when scurrying away. It is thought that this stone’s age is not less than 1.5 billion years, and even much more. 3. Well of Prayers (Offerings). It is a funnel type pit about 2 m in diameter and up to 50 cm in depth, cobbled with small stones. According to the legend, sacrifices used to be offered here. Later, in order to save the sacrifices, this well was hidden under the stones