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DESIGNING GÖBEKLI TEPE

Does New Research Prove Planning?

Since its discovery in 1994, by German Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, the vast and mysterious ruins in southeastern Turkey, known as Göbekli Tepe, have posed enormous, and virtually unanswerable questions for mainstream archaeology. Dating to long before its final burial, 11 to 12 thousand years ago, the obviously sophisticated structures of Göbekli Tepe are older—by more than four thousand years—than the commonly accepted age of Stonehenge or the Great Pyramid. In other words, it completely overthrows conventional notions of prehistory—that humans of that period were primitive hunter-gatherers, and nothing more. And, the problems for the standard academic paradigm are not going away. Incredibly, a new study shows that the site was designed in advance, something considered impossible for any hunter-gatherer society.

Israeli archaeologists Gil Haklay and Avi Gopher of Tel Aviv University have established that aligning the centers of the three oldest enclosures (‘B’, ‘C’, & ‘D’) at Göbekli Tepe is a large equilateral triangle (over 65 feet on a side). The clear implication is that all three circular structures were planned–and maybe built–at the same time, thousands of years before the conventionally accepted invention of writing or the wheel. Such an enormous structure, would have required hundreds—if not thousands—of well organized workers. Entitled “Geometry and Architectural Planning at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey,” the new study was published in January, 2020, in The Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Göbekli Tepe’s builders, the authors suggest, must have been guided by some understanding of geometric principles and were capable of applying them to their construction plans. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/geometry-and-architectural-planning-at-gobekli-tepe-turkey/2CBAF416E33AFE6496B73710A2F42FF9)

In an April edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, reporter Ariel David commented that “Based on the assumption that such a massive construction project would have been beyond the capacities of the small, non-sedentary groups that usually comprise hunter-gatherer societies, most scholars have assumed that all the circles at Göbekli Tepe had to have been built gradually over a long period of time.” The new evidence of advanced uniform planning clearly contradicts that assumption, but it is not the first such evidence to come to light.

 In his 2014 book, Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, British writer Andrew Collins offers one of the most thorough studies available on the topic (“Göbekli Tepe: The Cosmic Connection,” Atlantis Rising Magazine, see page 6). In addition to advanced planning, Collins claims the site also shows strong evidence of  alignment with the stars. A large ‘sighting stone’ with a carved hole, he believes, directs attention from Enclosure D to the northern sky, pointing specifically to Deneb, the alpha star of the Cygnus constellation, traditionally depicted as a swan, or some kind of bird. Indeed, one of the pillars in enclosure D bears the detailed relief carving of a bird, generally thought to be a vulture, next to some kind of sphere.

In 2015 Collins provided still further evidence of great, and entirely unexplained, sophistication at Göbekli Tepe. A tiny artifact—just six centimeters long, two-and-a-half wide, and three-quarters-of-a-millimeter thick—found during routine excavations at Göbekli Tepe, and on display in the Sanliurfa museum, was recognized for its significance by Matthew Smith, a British Telecommunications consultant. Smith pointed out to Collins, that it was a decorated with a representation of twin pillars like those at the center of each of the enclosures and, moreover, noticed, that the design employed a sophisticated three-dimensional perspective technique, not to be invented for another twelve thousand years, when artists of the renaissance, learned how to make their drawn lines converge toward a ‘horizon’ or ‘disappearing point’ in the center of an image, creating the illusion of depth for the observer.

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Oldest Panorama in World

11,000-Year-Old Wall Relief Near Göbekli Tepe

An 11,000-year-old wall relief, located near Şanlıurfa’s famous Göbeklitepe in southeastern Turkey, constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative “scene” and reflects the complex relationship between humans, the natural world and the animal life that surrounded them during the transition to a sedentary lifestyle, new research revealed recently.

The ancient wall carving depicts five figures: Two humans, a bull and two leopards.


Eylem Özdoğan, the author of the study published in the scientific journal Antiquity, stated that there is very little information about the civilization that made this relief. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sayburc-reliefs-a-narrative-scene-from-the-neolithic/3A35B54B3265C7224CB225FE70EBDD02)


“The communities living in this region share a common cultural environment. They certainly communicate with each other and share innovations, social ideology and a common culture,” Özdoğan, an archaeologist at Istanbul University, said in a statement to Gizmodo.


According to the news of Independent Turkish, radiocarbon dating studies of samples taken from the region continue, but researchers believe that these reliefs were made around 9,000 B.C.


That is due to the fact that the relief was found in the ancient city of Sayburç in Şanlıurfa. Sayburç was founded in 9,000 B.C. when hunter-gatherers switched to agriculture and settled life.


In 1949, most of the ancient city of Sayburç was open to settlement. However, excavations that began last year unearthed a Neolithic structure in the city. As the archaeological value of the city was revealed, some modern structures are planned to be demolished. So far, only half of the historic texture has been unearthed.


It is stated that the newly discovered relief is one of the oldest narrative works in archaeology. A 44,000-year-old pig painting, discovered in Indonesia in 2021, is the oldest known work of figurative art. However, there was no scene depiction in that work.


According to Özdoğan, the figures in Sayburç depict two scenes. The first tells the story of a man and a bull, and the other is of a man surrounded by two leopards. Both people are men.
It is striking that the dangerous features of the figures in the work, which covers an area of approximately 3.7 meters (12.1 feet), are also emphasized.


It is not known what exactly was once the intended meaning or message of the relief, in which the teeth of leopards and horns of bulls are highlighted.


https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/oldest-scene-in-world-11000-year-old-wall-relief-near-gobeklitepe


https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sayburc-reliefs-a-narrative-scene-from-the-neolithic/3A35B54B3265C7224CB225FE70EBDD02

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Civilization from Before the Deluge

by Frank Joseph

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Why Atlantis Still Matters

By J. Douglas Kenyon

No one in the past century is more directly linked with the notion that Earth’s forgotten history has been punctuated by memory-destroying catastrophic events, than Immanuel Velikovsky.

No one in the past century is more directly linked with the notion that Earth’s forgotten history has been punctuated by memory-destroying catastrophic events, than Immanuel Velikovsky.

When the late Russian/American scientist’s Worlds in Collision was published in 1950 it caused a sensation, and brought down upon the author’s head a virtual firestorm of scorn from the custodians of the natural history establishment. Subsequent books further elaborated his ideas and inflamed the controversy. Here was a scientist of considerable authority suggesting, among other things, that Earth and Venus might once have collided, leaving a vast chaotic aftermath which could have done much to explain our peculiar his‘tory. For such arguments, Velikovsky was, ever afterward, roundly ridiculed. Surprisingly, though, many of his predictions have now been validated, and an entire school of thought, known as ‘Catastrophism,’ has arisen.

This Article is from the new edition of Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT magazine


Among the claims for which he was ridiculed, but which have since been established as true, are: Venus is still very hot; rich in petroleum and hydrocarbon gases; and has an abnormal orbit. Other, now-verified Velikovsky claims include: Jupiter emits radio noises; Earth’s magnetosphere reaches at least to the Moon; the Sun has an electric potential of approximately 10 to the 19th power in volts; the rotation of the Earth can be affected by electromagnetic fields. Some of Velikovsky’s critics, including the late Carl Sagan, have conceded that he might have been on to something. A practicing psychoanalyst himself, Velikovsky offered unique insight into the psycho/sociological impacts of cataclysmic events. The psychological condition and case history of planet Earth is, he observed, one of ‘amnesia.’

As in the mythic tales of many traditions we, the victims of amnesia, are left with few clues to guide us through a maze of incomprehensible signs and images, while the incoherent fragments of a lost identity—the artifacts of forgotten worlds—haunt our dreams, even as the princes of the darkness, become the tyrants whom we permit to enslave us. Whether in government, orthodox religion, society, academia, or the ‘twitterverse,’ such figures find the light of recovering consciousness, a threat—best stamped out, nipped in the bud, strangled in the cradle, silenced, canceled. Should we be surprised to learn that those dark princes will fight to preserve the perks and prerogatives of their dim domain?


In Ghosts of Atlantis, my new book published by Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. I argue that we live within the ruins of an ancient civilization whose vast size has hitherto rendered it invisible. Remembered in myth as Atlantis, Lemuria, or other lost-world archetypes, the remains of this advanced civilization have lain buried for millennia beneath the deserts and oceans of the world, but leaving us many mysterious and bewildering clues.


Investigating the perennial myth of a forgotten fountainhead of civilization, the book offers extensive physical and spiritual evidence for a lost great culture, and the collective amnesia that wiped it from planetary memory. We explore the countless ways ancient catastrophes still haunt us. We look at the case for advanced ancient technology, study anomalous ancient maps, extraterrestrial influence, time travel, crystal science, and the true age of the Sphinx, evidence in the Bible for Atlantis and ancient Armageddon, Stone Age high-tech at Gobekli Tepe, the truth of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the Zep Tepi monuments of Egypt, mysteries of the Gulf of Cambay, and what lies beneath the ice of Antarctica. We look at extinction events, Earth’s connection with Mars, and how our DNA reveals that humanity has had enough time to evolve civilization, and to lose it, more than once.


Exploring the advanced esoteric and spiritual knowledge of the ancients, our book also shows that the search for Atlantis and other lost worlds is, in fact, a search for the lost soul of humanity. Drawing upon Velikovsky’s notion of a species-wide amnesia brought on by the trauma of losing an entire civilization, the book reveals how the virtual ruins of a lost history are buried deep in our collective unconscious, constantly tugging at our awareness.


The popularity of the movie Titanic, not too many years ago had Hollywood scrambling to clone the formula. The secret of unlimited wealth seemed to be at stake. Most theories of the movie’s success had to do with star power, and special effects combined with a good love story, but could something else have been involved?


Call it an ‘archetype,’ if you will, but the idea of an enormous, technically advanced, and arrogant world—supposedly impervious to danger—yet suddenly destroyed by nature itself and banished to the bottom of the sea, may strike an even deeper chord than most Hollywood moguls would dare to consider.


If it is true that our civilization is, as Plato suggested, but the latest round in an eternal series of heroic ascensions followed by catastrophic falls, it makes sense that we share a deep need to better comprehend our predicament.
Velikovsky offered a compelling explanation for many of the world’s pathologies. The cataclysmic destruction of a society, and its subsequent descent into barbarism, he said, would result in a loss of collective memory and, whatever new order rose from the ashes of the old, the requirements of self-preservation would tend to block the recalling of the former world.


At deeper levels, we all understand somehow, that, before the dawn of recorded history—our collective memory—we once rose to the heights, but still, we then plunged into an abyss from which we have not yet fully emerged.
Like the watery ghosts of the Titanic, we long to be awakened, but we dread it too, and that’s the problem.