Location
Village of Paavola, Lohja, Finland
The name/names of the sacred site
Paavolan tammi
Description
"This holy tree has been standing on his place around 400-500 years. The roots are thick like a giants leg. First he most likely was surrounded by the great forest and other trees of his kind too. Then came a need of food and he got surrounded by a field. When the field was not producing anymore someone planted a spruce forest around him. He have seen many generations passing by and many forests too. When you visit him you feel his strong energy. The place is covered with a mystic breeze. On a cloudy day it is quiet around him. Leaves got yellow and are soon about to fall. The old one is getting ready for a winter like we all. The life stored inside his mighty trunk. Ready to get sprouted out again in the spring when the firs rays of warming sun are touching his skin. " In this cold and rainy autumn day when i visited this Tammi i saw ten people who also had come to greet him. We all came along a nature path through a hardwood forest. Many people have been visiting him through the years and we joined the passed generations who have come to praise the old life before us. This location is sacred and this tree is holy. There are stories of him being a place for offerings, but no visible evidences occure. People are saying they are getting energized after visiting him and they do come to visit still again and again. Paavolan tammi is a natural monument and protected by Nature Conservation Act.