Kokino, Oldest Civilisation in the Balkans

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Kokino - Rock Outcrop in Macedonia

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10539

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Where the ancients studied the moon and stars
By Stephanie Busari, CNN and Catriona Davies
May 24, 2010 -- Updated 1643 GMT (0043 HKT)

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/eu...allery/?hpt=C2
(CNN) -- Macedonia is the youngest ancient country in the world and is full of relics of times past.

Although the country was only officially formed in 1991(Macedonia gained independence from the former Yugoslav federation), it has been part of all the great empires of history, from Roman to Ottoman to Byzantine and they have all left their mark with thousands of ancient sites.

The country has an estimated 4,485 archaeological sites from all historical periods, according to Pasko Kuzman, of the country's Cultural Heritage Protection Office.

Jewel in the crown is Kokino, discovered in the mountains near Kumanovo in 2001 by local archaeologist Jovica Stankovski. It is a 4,000-year-old Megalithic Observatory used in the Bronze Age for studying the sun and moon.

The site, at an altitude of more than 1,000m and with a 100m diameter, is described as the "Macedonian Stonehenge" and is ranked by NASA as the fourth oldest ancient observatory in the world, after Abu Simbel in Egypt, Stonehenge in Britain and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Several stone seats, known as thrones and facing the east horizon were also discovered on the site.

Research showed that the observatory had a specific place for monitoring the stars and the sun, as well as specific holes through which the movement of the sun and the moon could be recorded.

According to physicist Gjore Cenev, the ancient observatory worked by using special stone markers to map the movement of the sun and moon on the eastern horizon. With parts of the observatory well preserved, it is still possible to mark the position of the sun during the summer solstice, he said.

Cenev, who has carried out detailed analysis of the site, wrote in a paper on the subject: "Kokino has incredible astronomical preciseness and has a central observation post and accessory observation posts."

"The observatory defines the four main positions of the Moon and three main positions of the Sun during a year, the autumnal and vernal equinox and winter and summer solstice," he added.

It is believed some of the most important rituals for local inhabitants during the Early Bronze Age would have taken place on the site.

Stankovski, who discovered the ruins, wrote in the Macedonian Archaeological News: "One of the most attractive rituals noted at Kokino is the ritual of the sacred union of the Great Mother Earth and her Son, the Sun. The ritual was performed in mid-summer and it was probably related with the end of the harvest season."

There are theories that the Kokino Megalithic Observatory was part of a larger city after a network of 10 temples was discovered nearby.

Stone drawings and figurines have also been discovered and if Kokino is identified as an ancient civilization, it could the oldest known in the Balkans.

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Kokino Megalithic Observatory

http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/?I...F749D25AF1D6E9

The Megalithic Observatory Kokino is located about 30 kilometers northeast of Kumanovo. This site has a diameter of 100 meters and is scaled on two levels underneath the mountain peak Tatikev Kamen at an altitude of 1013 m. When discovered in 2001 it was believed to be a special mountain sanctuary from the Bronze Age.
A detailed archaeo-astronomical research carried out afterwards showed that the locality has all the characteristics of a holy place but also of an older observation of celestial objects. The most important characteristic of the observatory
ncludes positions for observation. Special stone markers used for marking all movement characteristics of the Sun and Moon have been found on the east horizon. The observatory used a method of static observation marking positions of the Sun at the winter and summer solstice, as well as the equinox.
Archaeological excavations are carried out on the upper platform on which valuable material has been found, ceramic fragments mostly, but also animal bones, pyramidal weights, fragments of two hones (grind stones), made of filitic slate and kelt mould.
Kokino Observatory proudly takes the forth place on the Ancient Observatory Sites’ list: 1) Abu Simbel, Egypt; 2) Stonehenge, Great Britain; 3) Angkor Wat, Cambodia; 4) Kokino Observatory, Macedonia; 5) Goeck, Germany; 6) Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Mont; 7) Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; 8) Chichen Itza, Mexico; 9) Machu Picchu, Peru ;10) Hovenweep Castle, Utah; 11) New Grange, Ireland; 12) Templo Major, Mexico; 13) Armenian Stonehenge, Aremenia ;14) Luoyang Observatory, China; 15) Masuda Iwafune, China.

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KOKINO observatory - 4000 years of MACEDONIAN culture

Kokino Calendar

MAP of Kokino


KOKINO observatory - 4000 years of MACEDONIAN culture

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NewsFlash-KOKINO observatory-4000years of MACEDONIAN CULTURE

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Here is something I found on the NET.....

KOKINO and the SCRIPT
They have found inscriptions similar to those of the VINCA and DANUBE cultures which date as far as 6000 BC.

Take a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_culture

"The Vinča Culture derives its name from the village of Vinča, located on the banks of Danube, 14 km downstream from Belgrade (at the 1145th nautical kilometer), where one of the largest and most significant prehistoric Neolithic settlements in Eastern Europe was discovered in 1908 by a archaeological excavation team led by Miloje M. Vasić, the first schooled archeologist in Serbia."

"The Neolithic settlers of Vinča ascribed great importance to spiritual life as is reflected by the enormous number of cult objects (figurines, sacrificial dishes, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic dishes). Their artistic and stylistic development was conditioned by the teachings of old settlers, as well as by contacts with neighboring peoples and their beliefs. Anthropomorphic figurines have a characteristic dignified stance and their number (over 1000 examples at Vinča alone) exceeds the total number of figurines discovered in the Greek Aegean. Shrines were discovered in Parṭa Transylvania with complex architectural designs. Some figurines and ceramic dishes discovered in the broad region spanning from Gornja Tuzla to Tǎrtǎria bear signs which some scholars suppose to be primitive forms of writing (see Old European Script). Indeed, if the inscriptions on the Tǎrtǎria tablets are pictograms, as Vlassa argued, they would be the earliest known writing in the world. This claim however remains controversial; most experts consider the Tǎrtǎria finds to be an example of PROTO-WRITING rather than a full writing system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing...#Proto-writing

Now, there are scientists who have managed to find a STRIKING similarity between these PROTO-WRITING signs and modern day CYRILLIC script. Take a look at the following study by Vasil Iljov:

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...pomenici-e.htm

Now, the issue with the Cyrillic is that it is falsely believed, like everything else, that it derives from the Greek! In fact we know that the Greek derives from the Phoenician script, which on the other hand is dated as far as the 1400's BC.

The Vinca culture shows a much older SCRIPT dated as far as 6000 BC. IT is more logical to say that the Phoenicians, and then consequently the Greeks have taken the alphabet (the phonetic one) from the people of the Vinca culture, rather than the other way round.

To this we can add the mysterious RUENICA SCRIPT, found on the wooden bar no.15 from the wooden book from 567 A.D. with the author's name and surname T'rp Ruen, which resembles the Cyrillic script to a great extent:

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...omenici3-e.htm

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...omenici7-e.htm

This shows that the Vinca script has been in continuous use on the Balkans prior to the introduction of the Cyrillic script by Ss.Clement and Naum of Ohrid, who called this script Cyrillic in honor of their teacher Ss.Cyril of Salonika!

Here are some other artifacts bearing the same Vinca script dated from various periods!!!

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...omenici5-e.htm

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...omenici6-e.htm

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...menici10-e.htm

The most striking of all artifacts, that I have used as a motif in my poetry book titled as Living Rock, is the following, found on a clay plate in Gradesnica a village in south-west Macedonia, which according to Marija Gimbutas, dates back to c.5000 BC. According to Bulgarian archaeologists, it dates back to c. 3500 BC.:

http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-maced...menici11-e.htm

http://www.prehistory.it/fase2/gradesnica.htm

They call it the Gradesnica script in some circles:

http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/public...5/2merlini.htm

Well, if we compare this ANCIENT script with the modern day Cyrillic we get a message that goes like this:

"HIDE NOW
PEOPLE, BAD AS DOGS
WHO COME DISGUISED,
ARE COMING AGAIN"

In original:

Skrij se s'g
Loshi ljudi ps'ni
koi inji idu
shire id't p'g

Or in modern day Macedonian:

Skirij se sega
loshi lugje pseta
koi poinakvi idat
shirum idat pak

This message is at least 5000 years old!!!

To this we can add the fact that the Glagollic script introduced by the Solunian brothers did not take roots in the Slavic world. It was only installed in the Ohrid school, probably to pose as a mask for the true mission of the Slavic teachers, which was to revive an even more ancient script such as the Vinca script, or the Gradesnica script, or the Ruenica script, or in a single phrase "the ancient Macedonian script". However the reconstructed ancient script, which was probably in secret use by the mystics of the ancient times, was well accepted by the Slavic speaking world due to its magical implication!

Let me clarify!

And this is purely my standpoint: I believe that the brothers form Solun when they were given the mission to teach the Bible in Slavic to the people of Moravia, they had to develop a new script! This was due to the fact that the tri-linguals, or the priesthood that supported the use of the three holy scripts only, i.e. the Jewish, Greek and Latin, would strongly oppose the use of an ANCIENT, or as observed in those rigid Christian times, a PAGAN script such as the Cyrillic, or the Gradesnica script!

Now, the brothers were clever and they managed to convince the Pope in Rome that the Glagollic was not much different from the Greek script, and therefore of Divine nature, suitable for the Word of God to be preached to the pagans in Moravia in their language! The Pope agreed to let the brothers preach the Bible in Slavic written with the Glagollic, and the Ohrid school took up the task of being the center for the Glagollic literacy!

While the Solunian brothers were spreading the Glagollic, at the SAME TIME, their students were "simplifying" the Glagollic into what is today known as the Cyrillic script! However, the Cyrillic had to spread and take roots away from the eyes of the tri-linguals, because if they noticed that the Macedonian priests were teaching the Bible in a PAGAN script, they would condemn their work and force the Pope to do the same! This would have been tragic to the Christian mission of the brothers and the Macedonian priests, their students, Clement and Naum of Ohrid!

Therefore, Cyril's students were instructed to offer the "new" script, or the pagan script, later to be known as Cyrillic, to the Bulgarian Khan Boris, who was of Tatar or Mongolic origin, very alien to the Byzantine Christian society, and who was facing the risk to lose his kingdom on behalf of the Byzantine Christianity, on the grounds that he was a pagan, moreover, an Asiatic one, who would probably earn the hostility of all Christians as such.

Therefore, Clement managed to convince the Khan to convert into Christianity and take the Cyrillic script as an official script of his new Christian Kingdom, in this way avoiding direct influence from Byzantium, and securing independent existence of his kingdom, within the family of Christian societies of Europe, at that time.

While to the Bulgarian Mongolic King, the Christening was a political move, to the Macedonian priests it was a spiritual mission to preserve an ancient script, used in the region since ages forgotten, and in that way to give sounding to the most ancient of all the languages that have been preserved in its purest form, the Macedonian language!!!

Clever, isn't it?

In this way the mission of the Macedonian priests was to preserve both the SCRIPT and the LANGUAGE of the ancient Macedonians, in the secluded Bulgarian society until better times arrive for all the people to know the implication of this holy mission!!!

Now, the implication of this comes after asking the question: What did the brothers from Solun and their students from Ohrid KNOW about this script, the Cyrillic, that forced them to go through this admirable odyssey, in order for us to enjoy the privilege of speaking the most ancient of all languages and use the most ancient of all the scripts!!!

My personal opinion is that they knew its origins better then we do! And I believe it has to do with Atlantis!

[vojnik]

WOW TLWR very interesting information!! Thanks for all that! I wonder what SoM thinks about the scripts etc he seems to have extensive knowledge on linguistics.

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Originally Posted by vojnik

WOW TLWR very interesting information!! Thanks for all that! I wonder what SoM thinks about the scripts etc he seems to have extensive knowledge on linguistics.

Yes hopefully SOM can comment on it... as I don't specialise in linguistics...then again I don't specialise in anything...lol

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yeah he can throw some light on it as to the scripts it would be most interesting.Som knows a lot.well i contacted him if can do it all the better.