Neat. The trick rock has a pet tree
What happened 11,000 years ago?
it was actually around 11025 years ago. i first heard about this in 1999, and it was 11000 years then.
You’re not gonna believe it.
The ice sheet covering northern europe started to melt away, and with that we got what is called “glacial erratics”. Rocks had traveled from once place to another, and then settled. In Sweden we call those “giants throw”, because it was assumed that the only way those big rocks could be where they are was if a giant had thrown it.
In Finland those are called siirtolohkare (moved boulder) or hiidenkivi (devil’s rock)
I think we have the same terminology then, we also call them “flyttblock”. Is there a story behind them being called Devil’s rock? It sounds very finnish to me to be honest.
Well “hiisi” translates to “devil” but that’s very much a political translation as far as such things existed back then.
Translating “Hiisi” as “the Devil” is quite a fuck-the-pagans translation.
Hiisi (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈhiːsi]; plural hiidet [ˈhiːdet]) is a term in Finnic mythologies, originally denoting sacred localities and later on various types of mythological entities
Hiisi was originally a spirit of hill forests (Abercromby 1898). In Estonian hiis (or his) means a sacred grove in trees, usually on elevated ground. In the spells (“magic songs”) of the Finns the term Hiisi is often used in association with a hill or mountain, as a personage he also associated with the hills and mountains, such as the owner or ruler of the same. His name is also commonly associated with forests, and some forest animals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiisi
I think “the Fae” would be a more accurate translation, theology-wise.
It’s not literally devil (paholainen) but Hiisi, which is something similar in finnish mythology which obviously doesn’t have a translation.
It’s likely simply “only devil could have brought that stone here”
Ice age
My cat would go there and push it over…
There’s not a feline or a man alive who could move that without tools.
If cats could read and open doors, they would collectively go to Finland to push it over with a huge mass of pure cat power.
With some levers, definitely doable. With just paws? Eh.
Also, cats can definitely open doors. Not all cats, but I know a few.
I’m talking doors to the outside so they can escape to Finland to knock the rock over.
I get that’s what you meant, but technically the way it was worded…
And the cats I know are cats who frequently roam outdoors and are Finnish. Perhaps they’ve just not seen this post, as outside cats rarely doomscroll.
Indeed they don’t doomscroll much. See my first point, re the fact that cats can’t read.
Being literate isn’t a requirement for scrolling though, although I do hesitate on how much “doom” applies to things like this.
But that’s clearly an indoors house-cat, so my hypothesis that outside cats doomscroll less is still valid.
You understimate the sheer amount of “i-want-to-push-over-things-energy” of a cat.
The name “odd stone” is really deserved. There’s also a pine tree growing on top of the rock
I don’t care how long this has been going on, I ain’t fucking around near that thing.
Very impressive from that view! But more stable than that tiny contact point would suggest.
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It does not have to matter, but can still be cool. I also don’t know if this sentence makes sense.
aw man, this is like the cooler version of the jug rock.
Jug rock is a better name though. I don’t know what that name translates to so maybe im wrong again. I hope not.
heavy breathing
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That game is sick, the mods are too, but I’d play fresh at first
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Let’s hope it doesn’t get destroyed by idiots.
I’m going to destroy it
Lame attempt at a troll. If you’re going to at least try to troll be creative. You’re boring, shallow and unimaginative.
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That honey with the stick will beat them to death.
Ima have to see an 11,000 year old picture and an 11,001 year old picture as proof of this.
If that was a comma, it would be way more impressive…
In Europe generally commas are used for decimals and periods for marking thousands
Then, it’s a very light rock!
Ha, I didn’t even realised they used the systems interchangeably
Having exactly 500 kg up to three decimal places would still be quite impressive!
Yeah, that really makes those figures more significant!
Can anyone tell me why the bottom rock is so smooth? I imagine people come and sit on it and touch them both frequently, and that they are two rocks from different places but they each look very dissimilar. I guess what I am really asking, is the bottom rock so smooth because of the big boy topping it?
Likely glaciation, the bottom rock was likely on the bottom of an ice sheet and millions of tons of ice moving over it over time had smoothed it out.
The top rock is probably from many miles away and was carried and placed there from the receding glacier. To me the top rock looks like it is a completely different type of stone then the bottom.
Awesome. That would make sense.
Nice, what bouldering grade?
Or some aliens with antigrav guns were like “Hey you know what would be funny?!?”
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Rock is in the floor
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Ice age ends, water floods dirt around the rock away
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Rock either rolls down or stays
We have lots of these in Austria and at least here this is how they became like that.
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