Herzegovinians also have pyramids and their existence is well known for quite some time. They were first explored in the 1970’s in the work of Petar Orec, one of the best pre-war archaeological terrain researcher who was interested in prehistoric settlements and burial mounds in Herzegovina.
Orec recognized this kind of objects first in village Rakitno near Posusje, then in a relatively small pile of stones near the village of Medjugorje Miletina, and then in “Sridnja gomila” in Mostar village of Rastani, after which few more pyramidal structures was revealed.
Mr. Sc. of Geology Goran Glamuzina started with more detailed research in recent years in the relative media silence. His conclusions about constructors and age are largely coinciding with Orec’s: it is a stepped pyramid, about 3000 years old and built by the ancient, probably pra-iliric Bronze Age inhabitants of the region, which are called “prahercegovci” or “prahumljani”, “praposušani” “prameđugorci” and “pramostarci”.
Glamuzina finds particularly interesting prehistoric buildings that are located on the periphery of the hill Orlac, northwest of the Mostar settlement Vihovici.
He emphasizes that some people will probably try to link this prehistoric “Mostar pyramid” with “Visoko Pyramids” or pyramid-like hills of neogene sediments near Visoko in Central Bosnia.
Glamuzina reminds that Petar Orec in his work “Prehistoric sanctuaries near Mostar in Miletina near Ljubuski” (Yearbook no. 29, Sarajevo, 1991) stated that “Mostar pyramid of Sun” was used, just like the Mayan and Aztec pyramids, for the ancient rituals of respecting sun whereby the most likely this kind of ceremonies took place on the day of the winter or the summer solstice. Glamuzina emphasizes that these kind of buildings were not found anywhere else from Istria to Montenegro.
(Source: P. Zvijerac/Faktor.ba)
