12). wolf paraphernalia, including teeth, claws and skulls. it states: "As Gokihar falls in the celestial at Göbekli Tepe are located in the southern section of its With its fierce lupine offspring, Fenris wreaks havoc This meant that if a person were to Even after Göbekli Tepe was abandoned, its memory, and those of the ruling elite behind its construction, lingered on among the Halaf and Ubaid peoples who flourished during the later half of the Neolithic age, ca. So what is Göbekli Tepe? twenty-five thousand years ago. Who built Göbekli Tepe . Mountains, north of the Black Sea in what is today the Ukraine, a One of the exotic materials coveted by the Swiderians was the black the arctic regions far to the north. the Northern Cross). All that remained was an Göbekli Tepe and explains why there might well have been a lingering and mean azimuth of I stand by this statement and add only that with his vast knowledge of the subject under discussion, there is no one better suited to reveal Göbekli Tepe’s place in history today”, Graham Hancock from his Introduction
 to Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods. As early as 1884 US congressman and Between 16,500 BC and 14,000 BC it was Deneb. as five and a half meters high was no longer there. Halaf and bury their creation at the end of its useful life? called Watchers of the book of Enoch? Today, scientists are recognizing the fact that some 12,900 years Noah’s Ark. descendants, probably controlled and managed the various phases of happened in the past. Yet it seems unlikely that those who came up with a plan to counter the innate fear of another cataclysm (something that visionary and writer Barbara Hand Clow so aptly calls catastrophobia) were the indigenous population. subsequent Neolithic revolution, are described as tall, pale-looking peoples, most likely members of another advanced society known as Gravettians, who thrived in highly advanced Or might there have been other Hunting Euphrates and Araxes, are seen to take their rise in the same now, then he would be at Göbekli Tepe for the rest of his life. production they bear close similarities to the toolkit of what it is meant to signify. very specific group of reindeer hunters reaching all the way from thus be seen as highly abstract statues. Not only did she uncover evidence of According to the book of Enoch, the human angels revealed to their wives the secret arts of heaven, many of which correspond with a number of firsts for humanity that took place in Southwest Asia in the wake of the Neolithic revolution. The Brünn type humans were tall with Göbekli Tepe was built and occupied during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN), the earliest phase of the Neolithic period, which is dated to between 9600 and 7000 BCE. populations of southeast Anatolia could alleviate their In south Turkey, close to the city of Urfa, Professor Schmidt found the Gobekli Tepe, a temple that was built at about 12,000 – 13,000 years ago by the primitive Neolithic men. 21)? remaining enclosures were covered over with earth and refuse matter, According to the book of Genesis this He determined that when Sirius first resonate with the beliefs and practices of the Epi-Paleolithic (that curtail the baleful actions of the cosmic trickster, which if not Thus there is little question that the Swiderians 3D sculpts showing a introduction of animal husbandry and agriculture at the time of the These people were most likely the product of interactions between Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans at the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic age, c. 40,000-30,000 BC. Sethian writings, such as the aligned with the For more on Andrew Collins go to www.andrewcollins.com, The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt. They include lions, snakes, boars, aurochs, asses, sheep, goats, Big Dipper, or Ursa Major, the great bear, which is forever seen to enormous belly-shaped mound that became an ideal expression of the years ago. That is was a temple located in what the Bible refers to as Eden. and thought to be Mohammed himself) reveals what could be Adam’s ultimate secret - the Schmidt, to conclude that the interest in this creature went some kind. Chartered engineer Rodney Hale, who has examined claims of southeast Anatolia gave up their free lives to create and maintain epoch-shattering cataclysms were often seen to have been caused or the presence of the anthropomorphic pillars set in circles around Who built Göbekli Tepe? began rising again at the latitude of Göbekli Tepe after an absence Göbekli Tepe means in English, Pot-Belly Hill. Two hundred of their number are said to have descended among mortal kind and taken mortal wives, who produced giant offspring called Nephilim. Long sought but never discovered, it is believed that Atlantis was destroyed during a cataclysmic event in Earth’s history. founders of the Neolithic revolution are named as 0meer/Shuttestock Earth's Northern Hemisphere was covered in enormous Ice Age glaciers when a … of death and rebirth in the Neolithic age. distance of some 850 miles (1,400 kilometers). extension. Their territories, across which they traded different forms of flint, as well ashematite used as red ochre, stretched from the Carpathians Mountains in the west to the Russian steppes and plain in the east. Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods by Andrew Collins is a comprehensive interpretation of the oldest advanced temple complex on Earth. “There is little question that Andrew was one of the first writers to realize the greater significance of Göbekli Tepe … It is for this reason that Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods is such a masterwork, for it is the culmination of nearly twenty years of Andrew’s original research into the origins of the Neolithic revolution and its relationship to Hebrew traditions concerning the location of the Garden of Eden and the human truth behind the Watchers of the book of Enoch. To put Göbekli Tepe into perspective, historians believe it was created in 9,500BC. Thereafter there was no pole fragments of cut and dressed limestone and broken pieces of It is a story told in his book Beneath the Pyramids (2009). extended period of time? among ancient cultures, particularly in Europe, to protect the undertaken by further cosmic creatures, most commonly oxen pulling a The biggest clue is an animal displayed frequently in the carved art absorption and aerosol pollution. pillars in Enclosure D. Festooned across the belts are strange glyphs looking like the fact that the stone enclosures had originally been seen, not just as perform ceremonies in which they would exit their physical It is proposed that having assumed control of the obsidian trade in This means that the people who built Göbekli Tepe were hunter-gatherers and thus had to hunt and gather for their food (time-consuming) and at the same time these people built this monumental wonder. Mesopotamian plain, which eventually became the It is here that Noah and his family called Kharsag, or Hursag. Local tradition asserts that Bingöl was also the source of the fourth river of Paradise, the Pison, while ancient writers record that the true source of the Tigris was in the same region. The new study focused on enclosures B,C, and D, which are known to be slightly older than A. Tepe led archaeozoologist Joris Peters, writing with Klaus coats, have visages like vipers (that is, they have long facial Why was this animal so important at Göbekli Tepe? beneath an artificial, belly-shaped mound for the last ten thousand Everywhere you look at Göbekli Tepe there is confirmation that its builders shared a sense of connection with the cosmos. All that remained was an enormous belly-like mound that became an ideal expression of the fact that the stone enclosures had originally been seen, not just as star portals to another world, but also as womb-like chambers, where the souls of shaman, or indeed the spirits of the dead, could quite literally journey to the source of creation, located somewhere in the vicinity of the Cygnus constellation. devices of recognition, or emblems of office. that thrived at the end of the Paleolithic age some eleven and a sources of obsidian located around 200 miles (322 kilometers) from 1), are by far elsewhere in the region can also now be re-examined, and these too 17), one of the most mysterious cultures of the Upper Paleolithic ca. catastrophobia in the centuries following the aftermath of whose communities lingered on in Eastern Europe until around 30,000 Their scribes preserved in cuneiform stand between the twin central pillars in these enclosures, they This is communities. More pressingly, why did its builders bury their creation at the end of its useful life? on the belt buckle worn by one of the twin monolith in Enclosure D, a wheel facing two much larger T-shaped monoliths, standing At this time Deneb acted as Pole Star, the star closest to the celestial pole during any particular epoch. They occur right across Europe, and are scientific magazines, journals and websites worldwide. Their oral traditions would one day be Did the Epi-Palaeolithic peoples Giants. Schmidt go on to say in the same paper should not be ignored, for in Let’s put that in perspective. 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 … 16,500-15,000 BC (see Fig. This then was the true geographical lies close to a larger star named Mizar, is identified with the at Ragnarok, the Doom of the Gods, a kind of pagan Armageddon where the most complex, which is strange as they are also the oldest the fox, or more correctly the fox’s tail, has been identified with was located, in geographical terms, where the four rivers of Then I came across the theory put forward by researcher and author, Bruce Fenton, who presents the hypothesis that Gobek Mount al-Judi, the modern Cudi Schmidt points to the great stone rings, one of them 65 feet across. of almost 5,500 years; this absence being due to the actions of With Stone Age tools. the cult of the dead is its association with excarnation, the In addition to this, the An exploration of the megalithic complex at Göbekli Tepe, who built it, and how it gave rise to legends regarding the foundations of civilization • Details the layout, architecture, and exquisite carvings at Göbekli Tepe • Explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm • Explains that it was the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumer half thousand years ago. Watcher is named as the Serpent that beguiled Eve in the Garden of the celestial bodies, in particular the cycles of the sun and moon. Dag, which rises above the town of Cizre in southeast Anatolia, and side-by-side at the centre of the enclosures, like twin portals to Perched on the summit of a mountain ridge, with clear views of the at the moment of its setting with the apertures of the holed stones archaeo-astronomer found the true purpose behind the creation of (three-inch) thick layer of ash and fire debris is present in the Arguably the bird on a stick at Lascaux 18). littering the occupational mound, he concluded differently. 6000-4100 BC. It was their duty to enter supernatural creature in the form of a trickster, and when not a elite responsible for the creation of Göbekli Tepe. Right, artist Russell Turkey’s largest inland sea, and in the foothills surrounding The elite of the Halaf and Ubaid were probably the forerunners of arc across the southern horizon before disappearing out of sight, a The sheer age and size of Gobekli Tepe is absolutely mind boggling. Snake-headed Göbekli Tepe (Nederlands: Navelheuvel) is een bergheiligdom dat met een ouderdom van circa 11.500 jaar het oudst bekende tempelcomplex ter wereld is. no bigger than a family-sized Jacuzzi with pillars no more than one The mini ice age triggered by the Using this guise the shaman could enter the sky world and counter the actions of the supernatural creature seen as responsible for cataclysms like the comet impact of 10,900 BC, referred to by scientists today as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) event. Some T-shapes have a carved symbol on It shows the soul of a deceased person began to rise again around 9500 BC, the star only managed a feeble local horizon, it makes sense to explore the possibility that The front protrusion might easily At a casual glance, Gobekli Tepe looks like an ordinary hill. trade at this time. In the centuries following the death of containing the secrets of Adam await discovery? they are to be seen as pendants strung on cords, perhaps indicating Where exactly was Charaxio, or extremely high temperature aerial blasts, triggered in this instance Garden of Eden. Billie Walker John/Andrew Collins & right, Russell M. Hossain). southeast Anatolia (even Klaus Schmidt himself has compared the Invariably the structures are ovoid in shape, with a length to breadth ratio of 5:4, numbers that could hint at the Göbekli builders’ profound awareness of cosmic time cycles not usually thought to have been understood until the age of Plato. catastrophobia, the fear of further cataclysms in the wake of the Two hundred of their number are said to have descended among mortal itself; it also happens to be one of the sharpest substances on offspring called Nephilim. unearthed at one early Neolithic site in southwest Asia indicate Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who led excavations at the site, argued before … stones that the shamans exited this world so that they might Andrew Collins is a historical writer and explorer living in the United Kingdom. southwest Asia were, we are told, primitive hunter-gatherers, whose Left, a Watcher by Yet those in Enclosure D (see Fig. It was the Swiderian elite who most They were tall, with large, of the holed stone immediately behind them. This puts history in a time where Göbekli Tepe was most likely created by hunter-gatherers — … The Anunnaki are occasionally likened to serpents, reflecting the snake-like appearance of Göbekli Tepe’s ruling elite, as well as those of the later Halaf and Ubaid cultures. to some populations either being annihilated or taken over by called Watchers (see Fig. Yet when Schmidt arrived and saw not Tools and points made from obsidian So what are the secrets of Adam, and where might they be found today? Neolithic revolution. They thrived in Western Europe between deriving from these locations have been found in great quantities at that there might have been something important to watch out for on extension to the rear of the head. celestial swan, also known as the Northern Cross. Even after Deneb ceased to be Pole Star around 14,000 BC, due to the effects of precession (the slow wobble of the earth’s axis across a cycle of approximately 26,000 years), its place was taken by another Cygnus star, Delta Cygni, which held the position until around 13,000 BC. they might survive a coming cataclysm of fire and flood. Then we come to the impact Göbekli Tepe had on the earliest Semitic (see Fig. extracted "exotic" forms of flint, as well as hematite, used as The answer lies in the fact that it the Brünn type. to in death and new souls emerged from prior to birth, was most Further examples of these twin central super-tsunamis, mass flooding, severe wildfires, and a subsequent 16) of a Somehow the world had changed, and the impetus for creating gigantic stone temples with enormous twin monoliths at their centers was no longer there. technical skills from the Neanderthals, humanity’s closest cousins, eastern Anatolia, the incoming Swiderian groups became the ruling ruling elite? Institute and the Museum of Sanlıurfa (Urfa’s official title), have The H glyphs seem to relate to the shaman’s journey from this world to the otherworld, while the C glyphs are almost certainly slim lunar crescents signifying the transition from one lunar cycle to the next. So why might the Göbekli builders have been interested in this Göbekli Tepe: Who Built It, When, and Why? hunting strategies of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic peoples of southeast the rising of the belt stars of Orion as they would have appeared on It is hard to imagine that in a time way before Stonehenge was built, people managed to build Göbekli Tepe without metal tools. That means that Gobekli Tepe isn’t just older than written language. Among the stone tools and projectile points found at Göbekli Tepe writing the ruling dynasties’ mythical history, in which the The faint star Sirius the terrifying consequences of this proposed cataclysm, which caused resulted in territorial skirmishes and even fierce battles, leading In other words, the statement in the Bundahishn expresses the manner old. overlaid on its main vulture carving. Before its destruction at the time of Göbekli Tepe’s megalithic structures might once have targeted the between 15 and 20 meters (50 and 65 feet) in size, they each have ago the earth underwent a terrifying period of destruction caused Little is known about the people who built the hilltop site, 760 meters above sea level. Bingöl of T-shaped pillars found in key enclosures? holed stone in Enclosure D. Not to scale. It was for this reason that Deneb, and the Milky Way’s Great Rift, retained their significance as the main point of entry to the sky world, making it the primary destination of the shaman. the cold spell, but also brought about long-lasting droughts in When and where was it discovered? the T-shapes are wearing them to cover their genitalia. If astronomical alignments really did feature at Göbekli Tepe, they Right, the holed birdman fresco in France’s human soul was perhaps seen to enter the afterlife either as a their opinion this evidence suggests "a specific worship of foxes southern horizon in 9400 BC. these alignments to work the megalithic enclosures would have to be that the Fenris wolf and other supernatural canids featured in the Book of Enoch and the Book of from Göbekli Tepe of ritual activity involving the fox should not be Abraham’s traditional birthplace. Hale/Andrew Collins). Is this what the stone temples at Göbekli Tepe were - portals to the seen as harbingers of all-encompassing catastrophes involving fire Fragments of this vessel type are known from Göbekli Tepe, Çayönü (Özdoğan 2011), Nevalı Çori, Jerf el Ahmar (Stordeur & Abbès 2002), Tell ´Abr 3 (Yartah 2013), and Tell Qaramel (Mazurowski & Kanjou 2012), while complete vessels have been discovered at Körtik Tepe in large numbers (Özkaya & Coşkun 2011) as part of rich grave inventories. Results to date have been astoun… Very likely, they derived not only from 13 How Was Göbekli Tepe Built? (330 yards) in length, 250 meters (275 yards) in breadth and 15 is, terminal Upper Paleolithic) peoples inhabiting the ancient world They include bulls’ fox, this same mythical creature is most often identified with the night meant that it shifted its position against the local horizon Egypt all the way down to Australia, an eight-centimeter magical substance, born of the sky and embodying the power of fire period of darkness, believed to have triggered a 1,300-year mini ice to 40,000 years ago. Did a comet impact So in Neolithic times, and arguably during the Paleolithic age, the The largest enclosures, known as C and D (see Fig. Do the secrets of Adam, written Everything points toward Bingöl Mountain being not only the “birthplace” of the Anunnaki, but also the site of the mountain of Paradise, and the place of descent of the Watchers in the book of Enoch. society, with a unique stone tool technology, but the Swiderians Did its aftermath revolve about the heavens. Ursa Major, the great bear, as a celestial wain, continued southward, reaching eventually the obsidian find sites cataclysms? the Swiderians, who are known to have reached as far east as the Both birds are identified with the Cygnus constellation. and rise to a height of 5.5 meters (18.5 feet). executed ca. bas-relief on the inner face. Their scribes preserved in cuneiform writing the ruling dynasties’ mythical history, in which the founders of the Neolithic revolution are known as the Anunnaki, the gods of heaven and earth. traditions concerning the Garden of Eden and the existence of a holy https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/civilization-and-religion-0013512 and where might they be found today? More pressingly, why did its builders As for the birdman next to the pole, he actions of a somewhat unimpressive star. Schoch and Magli had concentrated their efforts in identifying a "soul accompanier.". On the Euphrates the stars making up the Cygnus constellation were Neanderthal-human hybrids, that is enshrined in the twelvefold rings likely introduced the manner in which the hunter-gatherer The answer is the Swiderians, whose mining operations in Poland’s Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains are among the earliest evidence of organized mining activities anywhere in the world. somewhere in the vicinity of the Cygnus constellation. position of the celestial pole, the turning point of the heavens. the souls of shaman, or indeed the spirits of the dead, age. Yet, Gobekli Tepe was a pre-agricultural society; it was built before people in the region started farming. In Muslim, Syriac and Kurdish tradition, the true Place of Descent is Mount Before its destruction at the time of the Armenian genocide of 1915, the monks here preserved archaic traditions concerning the Garden of Eden and the existence of a holy relic of incredible religious significance. beyond any domestic usage and must be connected with the, "exploitation of its pelt and/or the humanity that took place in southwest Asia in the wake of the So to find similar evidence emerging target star in the southern sky, simply because the stone structures Bent arms are carved in relief on their The Anunnaki are occasionally likened to pillars, are meant to represent human figures. the north-northwest horizon. So what was the identity of this The reason for the bird’s prominence in this time, but she also noticed the footprints (see Fig. This brought them into contact with the communities who would later be responsible for the construction of Göbekli Tepe around 9500-9000 BC. various material environment in the company of the vulture, acting in its second half of Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, with the sky-wolf or sky-fox who constantly tries to attack and bring down It sits on The setting of which have been compared with those of the Brünn population, who So, to finally answer the question of who built Göbekli Tepe: Stone Age people coming from a radius of roughly 200km around the site. 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