Puntukas Stone, the second-largest boulder in Lithuania, lies in the Anykščiai Pine Forest Landscape Reserve, not far from the Šventoji River. It is a natural, mythological and historical monument and was declared a geological natural monument in 2000. Until 1957 Puntukas was considered the largest stone in Lithuania, until the Barstyčiai Stone was discovered in Puokė. In composition, Puntukas Stone is granite. Puntukas weighs about 265 tonnes and is 7.54 m long, 7.34 m wide and 5.7 m high (1.5 m of which is underground). Its volume is 100 m³ and its density about 2.7 g/cm³. Its greatest horizontal circumference is 21.39 m. According to archaeologists, the huge boulder was left by glaciers from the Scandinavian mountains that moved through here 20,000–14,000 years ago. There are myths about the origin of Puntukas Stone. One of them tells how the devil was carrying the stone to destroy a church but dropped it when the cocks crowed. Another myth says that the stone was named after the Lithuanian warrior Puntukas, who was burned on it. It is said that Puntukas wanted to abduct a vestal who guarded the sacred fire, and he was punished for it. Yet another legend says that Puntukas Stone once lay deep in the forest. Where the Anykšta stream now flows into the Šventoji, there lived the Anykšta clan. The Anykšta clan lived well and knew neither want nor hunger. The evil spirits could not even come near the family. Mother Anykšta was a powerful priestess. She had a magic sign, and when the evil spirits saw it, they sank straight into the ground. The evil spirits were angry with Mother Anykšta and her clan, and one day the oldest devil decided to finish her off by burying her cottage under a stone. The old devil summoned his grandson and ordered him to do the job. The little one tried to lift the stone this way and that, but the stone would not budge. The grandson ran back to his grandfather and complained in tears that he could not move the stone even an inch. Then the old devil sent his son to do the job. The son tried, but the stone would not budge. The son came to his father and said he could not move the stone even an inch. The old devil shouted angrily: "How weak the devils have become nowadays – they can't even lift a measly little rock! Look at me: old as I am, I'll still pick up that rock with one hand and throw it onto that witch's cottage!" The whole devil clan went to the stone. The old devil grabbed the stone this way and that, but it would not budge. He tried to lift it once more, but only broke into a sweat, and still nothing came of it. Exhausted, the old devil looked around. He saw his son and grandchildren splitting their sides with laughter. The old devil got so angry that he whistled until the leaves fell from the trees. Devils came running, as many as there are mosquitoes in the forest. The old man said to them: "Grandchildren, carry that little rock and throw it onto the witch Anykšta's cottage." The devils obeyed the old man. They swarmed all over the stone. They heaved once – the stone moved; they heaved a second time – it rose from the ground; they heaved once more – it rose above the trees, and they began to carry it, though with great difficulty. Dundulis, the thunder god, hates the evil spirits bitterly. Wherever he sees them, he immediately hurls a fiery arrow at them. So now, too, seeing the devils at work, he struck them out of a clear sky; the devils scattered in all directions, and the stone fell right there. And people began to call the stone Puntukas. You see, a man called Puntukas lived nearby. He was an angry and wicked man. He could not get along with people. His mother drove him out of the house. He built a cottage on the spot where the stone fell. He neither feared the evil spirits nor respected the good ones, and only laughed at others. So when the stone fell from the devils' hands, it landed right on Puntukas's cottage. Since then nobody has seen Puntukas again, and the stone came to be called by his name. Carved into Puntukas Stone are bas-reliefs of the Lituanica aviators Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas and the words of their testament to the Lithuanian nation. These bas-reliefs and words were carved during the Second World War, in midsummer 1943, over 180 days, by the sculptor Bronius Pundzius to mark the 10th anniversary of the flight.