How to get parallels of tilted Equator?

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I have a Great Circle on Earth, which is not an Equator nor Meridian, and it's not parallel to these. I have four geographical coordinate pairs for it, separated by 90 degrees, so I can use these in KML files and display the circle in Google Earth.

From these coordinates I need to calculate the Longitude and Latitude pairs for a Small Circle that is parallel to that Great Circle and x degrees away from it.

I know how to draw small circles parallel to Equator, which means just adding some degrees of latitude to Equator (or subtracting), but how you do it when you have a Great Circle that is not an Equator or Meridian?

Can it be done like Equatorial coordinates conversion into Ecliptical coordinates in Astronomy?

I have been trying to use this formula but with no success.

http://neoprogrammics.com/php_level-0/Equ_To_Ecl_Coords.txt