They say that the sun always shines here - even if it rains in the vicinity. That the stones of the Pokaine Forest not only radiate warmth, but also heal infertility. That here the gates to a parallel world open and an ordinary person may have supernatural abilities.
Some consider Pokayne a sanctuary of pre-Christian priests, from which the ancestors controlled the weather. Others - the oldest computer, the disks of which stores information intended for people of the future. Still others are just a bad place, from which it is better to stay away.
Skeptics are convinced that these wonders are nothing more than a hoax and a show for tourists.
The specialists were forced to pay attention to the secrets of the Pokain forest by aerial photography data. Back in the mid-70s, NASA satellites, tracking the military activity of the USSR, recorded a powerful source of unknown underground radiation on the territory of Latvia.
The center of the anomaly with a diameter of about 340 kilometers was located in the vicinity of the Latvian city of Dobele. The Americans mistakenly believed that the source of radiation was a secret military facility hidden in the bowels of the Pokain hills.
Former engineer and healer Ivar Vicks became the main Latvian Pokainologist. In his numerous articles, he described in detail the wonders of the weather, rare plants and the amazing stones of Pokayne.
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Pokaina forest.
Geologists in cautious terms explain the nature of the anomaly (a person in Pokaine has a faster heart rate, a compass - a deflecting arrow). for purely terrestrial reasons - the structure of the geological massif, peculiarities of the composition and structure of rocks, as well as the presence of special thermal zones communicating with groundwater.
Scientists do not exclude the presence here of deposits of magnetic ores and gravitational anomalies still unknown to science. But the popular version of a giant meteorite, supposedly located under the Pokain forest, is refuted - the radiation background here has always been within normal limits.
The Mystery of the Grail
Ivar Vicks passed away several years ago from a rapidly developing cancer. For his sudden death, many tend to blame the negative impact of Pokayne and the stones here.
Weeks never tired of repeating that the forest energizes him and cures all ailments. It turned out not all. Researchers of anomalous phenomena and healers together recommend refraining from visiting the Pokain Forest for people suffering from oncological diseases.
The enthusiast left a set of theories and versions about Pokayne to his followers. He was convinced that all thirty hills of the forest were man-made, and the masonry scattered throughout the forest were parts of a complex system that created the effect of energy resonance.
In favor of this version, he also cited the fact that mushrooms in the Pokain forest grow of fantastic sizes, and the crowns of the local oaks seem to be twisted into a spiral by some unknown force.
Vicks believed that comprehending Pokaine could change the existing understanding of the ancient history of Latvia. He warned that archaeologists would not find anything interesting here (and that is how it happened - excavations under one of the masonry in the 90s proved only that it was not a burial).
The enthusiast became the author of the most sensational version in Pokayne studies: the legendary Grail is not a treasure, but a stream of cosmic energy pouring into the bowl of the Pokayne forest …
Wicks believed that only the most prepared and worthy could use this treasure. You cannot get to the Pokain forest by accident - fate itself brings a person here when he is ready for it.
Pokaina forest.
Silence to order
The beginning of summer is the best time to visit the anomalous zone. From the influx of people and rituals that healers arrange here, by autumn the forest gets tired and accumulates negative energy. In the meantime, he is rested and "clean".
Guide Anita Biseniece, who works as a geography teacher at a local school, has been trying to deal with the Pokayne phenomenon for seven years. There are many versions. But they all agree on one thing - this place is connected with cosmic energies, it is something like a staircase to the sky.
In local legends, the stories of old residents about the refuge of the ancient Semigallians, located on the Zikurat hill, have been preserved. It is possible that this hill is man-made and was once hollow. A zikurat can be something like a dolmen - a sanctuary intended for the transition to another world of priests and hermits.
The ancient Semigallians were able not only to foresee the future, but also to partially change it. And with the help of special rituals, they temporarily became invisible and took children and women to shelter from the besieged fortifications.
Pokaina guides often amaze sightseers with local natural foci with "warm" stones, for example. I was most impressed by the complete silence in the forest, as if at the command of Anita.
There is one more phenomenon. Standing on the top of hills located at a great distance from each other, people can freely talk, even in a whisper. The audibility is amazing!
Magic stones
Among the most famous Pokaina stones, there are special ones. Around the stone, Brides couples can determine whether their marriage will be happy and lasting. Some stones treat female infertility. There is one "Healer" on the card, but the ability to heal ailments is also attributed to other stones. They ask the limestone for happiness in their personal life.
Anyone who is going to visit the Pokain forest for the first time, guide Anita Biseniece advises not to wait for miracles. You should not come to the forest just in search of the notorious "warm" stones. It is better if the need to listen to yourself brings you here, to be alone and to make an important decision for yourself.
Versions of Pokayne
1. A place where pilgrims from all over Europe came to leave a stone brought from afar in order to get rid of sins and change their fate.
2. The complex of hills and stones is a man-made system that concentrates cosmic energy and causes the effect of bioresonance.
3. Nothing supernatural! The piles of stones were once removed by peasants from the fields or collected for the construction of a castle that was never built.
4. The Holy Grail. Pokayne is a powerful funnel through which the flow of cosmic energy is poured onto the Earth.
5. The oldest computer, on the disks of which the knowledge of ancestors is recorded, passed on to future generations. By moving stones, we risk losing information before we can use it.
6. Sanctuary of the ancient Semigallians. All knowledge about it was lost - the Semigallians took it away with them when, not submitting to the knights, they burned down their settlements and left for Lithuania.