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Full article here - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-an-unknown-extraordinarily-ancient-civilisation-lie-buried-under-eastern-turkey-
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
Sean Thomas,Written By,Sean Thomas Is A Bestselling Author | Time Saved: 12 mins
I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an open chamber.
Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a large, oblong stone.
The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer’s day in 1994, had made an irreversibly profound discovery – which would eventually lead to the penis pillars of Karahan Tepe, and an archaeological anomaly which challenges, time and again, everything we know of human prehistory.
Whatever the reason, when I flew out on a whim in 2006 (inspired by two brisk minutes of footage on a TV show), even the locals in the nearby big city, Sanliurfa, had no conception of what was out there, in the barrens.
Yet still we have no sign at all of contemporary agriculture; they were, it still appears, hunter gatherers, but of unnerving sophistication.
Sure enough, there are classic Gobekli/Karahan style T-stones, being used to buttress agricultural walls, they are probably 11-13,000 years old, just like everywhere else.
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This civilization flourished long before "conventional" science thinks an advanced civilization is even possible - this site is 130 centuries old. There is evidence of phallic worship, male gods resembling Satan, and more.
Looks astonishingly like Aztec images of the Gods.
So here is an observation from paleontologists that religious ritual at this site had to precede advanced agricultural technology -- which would put a communication line to the Gods there to enable their descendant humter-gatherers to then move on to an advanced civilization.
At any rate, really worth looking into some more. Let's have some insights from those on this forum who are expert in mesopotamian history, paleontology, etc.
Full article here - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-an-unknown-extraordinarily-ancient-civilisation-lie-buried-under-eastern-turkey-
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
Sean Thomas,Written By,Sean Thomas Is A Bestselling Author | Time Saved: 12 mins
I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an open chamber.
Crouching down, he brushed away the dust, and exposed a large, oblong stone.
The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer’s day in 1994, had made an irreversibly profound discovery – which would eventually lead to the penis pillars of Karahan Tepe, and an archaeological anomaly which challenges, time and again, everything we know of human prehistory.
Whatever the reason, when I flew out on a whim in 2006 (inspired by two brisk minutes of footage on a TV show), even the locals in the nearby big city, Sanliurfa, had no conception of what was out there, in the barrens.
Yet still we have no sign at all of contemporary agriculture; they were, it still appears, hunter gatherers, but of unnerving sophistication.
Sure enough, there are classic Gobekli/Karahan style T-stones, being used to buttress agricultural walls, they are probably 11-13,000 years old, just like everywhere else.
====End of summary===
This civilization flourished long before "conventional" science thinks an advanced civilization is even possible - this site is 130 centuries old. There is evidence of phallic worship, male gods resembling Satan, and more.
‘We have found no homes, no human remains. Where is everyone, did they gather for festivals, then disperse? As for their religion, I have no real idea, perhaps Gobekli Tepe was a place of excarnation, for exposing the bones of the dead to be consumed by vultures, so the bodies have all gone. But I do definitely know this: some time in 8000 BC the creators of Gobekli Tepe buried their great structures under tons of rubble. They entombed it. We can speculate why. Did they feel guilt? Did they need to propitiate an angry God? Or just want to hide it?’ Klaus was also fairly sure on one other thing. ‘Gobekli Tepe is unique.’
- Maybe keep their true beliefs secret from the outside world, like the Yezidis have done?
- What could have caused their downfall? Most likely the enemy, since they have intermixed with the races and spread their parasitic religion and trade practices all over the place since time immemorial, going back all the way to Vedic times.
Looks astonishingly like Aztec images of the Gods.
[Italics emphasis mine here]Gobekli Tepe upends our view of human history. We always thought that agriculture came first, then civilisation: farming, pottery, social hierarchies. But here it is reversed, it seems the ritual centre came first, then when enough hunter gathering people collected to worship – or so I believe – they realised they had to feed people. Which means farming.’
So here is an observation from paleontologists that religious ritual at this site had to precede advanced agricultural technology -- which would put a communication line to the Gods there to enable their descendant humter-gatherers to then move on to an advanced civilization.
At any rate, really worth looking into some more. Let's have some insights from those on this forum who are expert in mesopotamian history, paleontology, etc.