Abstract
This paper proposes a method to find out the units of length used by the Slavs prior to their Christianization. The method relies on a previous research of the tripartite structure of pre-Christian Slavic sacred sites discovered by Andrej Pleterski. Such spatial structures represent myth in space and are in correlation with the central Slavic myth of the divine battle between Perun and Veles as presented by Radoslav Katieiae. By measuring the angles which Sun takes through the year cycle and comparing them with the angles between the sacred sites, the pagan priests had means to accurately determine the days of religious festivals and the calendar in general. The angles likely had an important role, but this article tries to examine weather the absolute values of the distance between the sacred sites were also important. The method relies on the mathematical properties of arithmetic and geometric sequences. If for some of the inital parameters of the sequences the probability function for a given distribution of sacred sites in some area shows to be significantly smaller than the average, then it is an indication that the respective distribution is not random. The parameters in such case may point to the system of measures used during the creation of the structure. The proposed method really detected some common modules, but in this phase it is only experimental and still can not be used as a proof of common Pan-Slavic system of units.
Highlights
The pagan Slavs positioned their sacred shrines in such a way that the chosen positions formed a tripartite structure, a triangle as discovered by Andrej Pleterski [1]
Measuring the angles which Sun takes through the year cycle and comparing them with the angles between the sacred sites, the pagan priests had means to accurately determine the days of religious festivals and the calendar in general
The angle of 23,4° corresponds to the axial tilt of Earth which could be measured looking the Sun’s zenith position from an equinox to the the consecutive solstice as was discovered by Andrej Pleterski
Summary
The pagan Slavs positioned their sacred shrines in such a way that the chosen positions formed a tripartite structure, a triangle as discovered by Andrej Pleterski [1]. Measuring the angles which Sun takes through the year cycle and comparing them with the angles between the sacred sites, the pagan priests had means to accurately determine the days of religious festivals and the calendar in general This means that the major holidays were held at each solstice and each equinox, probably with some correction regarding the lunar phases. The ratio 1: 2 probably had a special meaning to the pagan Slavic priests regardless of the latitude and the Sun angles This ratio is easy to construct in any landscape and it could be used to indirectly measure the distance between any two vertices of an isosceles, rectangle triangle (the triangle with angles 45°, 45° and 90°). Computational analysis of the spatial distribution of pre-Christian Slavic sacred sites
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