Resumo
A lunar standstill, also named a lunistice in resonance of the solar ?solstice? (the Sun standing still), is the moment of the lunar month when the Moon is seen farthest north or south with respect to other positions of that particular swinging motion from a given position on Earth. As Lionel Sims indicates in his paper, these extremes are not completely fixed, due to the receding motion of the line of nodes, and thus, the extremes vary between a major and a minor extreme in an 18.6-year period (or 9.3 years if we take the period between a major and a minor extreme).
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Lunar cycles. Stonehenge. Gobekli Tepe.