Helsinki’s Astanga Yoga School plans to sell the lands of the so-called Lemminkäinen temple in Gumbostrand to Sipoo.
last reported about the place in September. Late mystic By Ior Bock according to the legend, the ancient Finnish temple of Lemminkäinen and the route to the huge treasure would have been hidden inside the rock on the plot.
Bock’s international Followers began excavations for a temple on a rock called Kyypelivuori in 1987. Despite long searches, the temple has not been found.
CEO of the yoga school Juha Javanese says that the company bought the land in 2000, when Ior Bock’s property was auctioned.
According to Javanainen, the yoga school now has to sell the land because the company ran into financial difficulties during the corona pandemic.
– We wouldn’t want to sell it. The last option to get out of our debts is to put the Lemminkäinen temple up for sale, Javanainen says.
Chairman of the Tempelberg association managing the excavations of the Lemminkäinen temple Johan Rikberg says that the landowner’s decision to put the land up for sale caused a state of shock in the excavation team.
According to Rikberg, they were considering whether the land could be redeemed with some kind of crowdfunding. However, the tight schedule of the auction makes this almost impossible.
Rikberg says that they are now anxiously waiting to see what kind of potential new owner will come to the area and how the association will be able to continue digging.
Broker: The area is of interest to foreigners
The land area of the Lemminkäinen temple includes two undeveloped plots.
The smaller plot is about half a hectare, and the larger plot is just under a hectare and a half. In total, they have three construction sites.
The land is to be sold as a whole. The initial starting price in the auction is 150,000 euros.
Real estate agent responsible for selling the property and entrepreneur of Asuntokaruselli Oy Timo Kanerva finds the object unique and fascinating because it is associated with beliefs and fables.
– There is quite a lot of interest in this abroad. I wouldn’t consider it impossible that potential screamers would join the game from there, says Kanerva.
The new owner would have to decide whether the temple searchers can continue their work and whether the public is allowed to enter the cave or not.
The yoga school hopes that among the buyer candidates there would be parties that would enable the excavations of the Lemminkäinen temple to continue.
According to Javanainen, the yoga school reserves the right to accept or reject the highest call.
An old ax was found in the cave
In October, the Tempelberg Association made a surprising discovery at the bottom of a cave excavated in Kyypelivuori. Chairman Johan Rikberg says that the ax was found when they were emptying the cave of water at the end of the excavation season.
The discovery was made by a Swede Marcus Lundqvist. The ax has been left in the custody of the Finnish Museum Agency.
According to Rikberg, a representative of the Finnish Museum Agency has preliminarily estimated that the ax blade might date from the 12th century. It may even take years to determine the age of the find more precisely, because there is a long queue for analysis.
A Javanese woman who has participated in the search for the Lemminkäinen temple for decades thinks the discovery is fantastic.
He states that it feels really confusing and sad to give up the land right now, when the first archaeological discovery of the excavations has been made there.
The Javanese woman knew Ior Bock personally.
– Ior was not a believer. But he believed in fate. I am convinced that within the framework of this story, fate always has a hand in the game, Javanainen says.
He says that a small American production company has prepared a script for a documentary series about the search for the Lemminkäinen temple.
According to Javanainen, the Dokumenttiprojekti would like to negotiate with the buyer of the land so that excavations and filming could be done at the site for a while. Thus, at least one production season could be realized from the series.
According to Javanainen, the large streaming services have shown interest in the topic.
In addition, another documentary series about the search for the Lemminkäinen temple has also been preliminarily filmed in the summer of this year. European parties are working on it.
According to Javanainen, now that the area of the Lemminkäinen temple is going to be sold, these two competing documentary projects are planning some kind of cooperation.
Kajaani Castle as your next destination?
The mystic Ior Bock also told stories about the gold caches in Snappertuna’s sacrificial grove and Kajaani Castle.
Johan Rikberg states that the searches related to the Bock saga would not necessarily end even if the possible new owner of Kyypelivuori forbids the excavations of the Lemminkäinen temple in Sipoo.
According to Rikberg, the excavation team has already planned to go to Kajaani to search for the cache with the help of technical equipment.
The sale of the Lemminkäinen temple area was also reported on Friday Sipoon Sanomat (you switch to another service).
You can discuss the topic on 13.11. until 11 p.m.