CULTURAL HERITAGE: - Macedonian Information Centre

1 - Jovica StankovSki, Gjore Cenev
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order for a place to be an observatory another very important condition
has to be fulfilled. All these seven markers must be observed from one
place, or the lines that pass through the markers must cut on one point,
which is actually the central point of the observatory and this was also
identified on the site.
We should here point out another very important fact. According
to the astronomic laws, the places where the full Moon rises are repeated
every 18.6 years. If someone is to understand that these are really periodical
movements, at least 40 years of continual observation of the rising of
the full Moon is necessary. If we also know that the average man’s life at
that time was 40 years, it is quite clear that several generations of people
stood on the central position of the observatory and were dedicated to
the observation of the rising of the Sun and the Moon. All these facts
indicate that the site was indeed an ancient observatory.
The archaeological and astronomic analysis helped define precisely
also the time when the stone markers were constructed marking the
places where the Sun and the Moon rise on the horizon. The analysis
showed that the stone markers (Fig. 18) were built in the decades around
1800 B. C., which means that the Kokino Megalith Observatory is at
least 3800 years old. Documented photos also prove that this was about
marking the places of the rising of the Sun over the stone marker (Fig.
19) on the longest summer day. Because of the precession of the earth
axis of rotation, today the Sun rises a little lower and a little more to the
left of the marker, but this is exactly the proof about the accuracy of the
positioned stone marker, because these deviations are also envisaged in
the exact astronomic analysis.