Gobekli Tepe Doesn't Make Any Sense - Andrew Collins, #313

Andrew Collins is a historian and journalist who has devoted over
four decades of his life to the study of ancient civilizations,
much of it among the enigmatic T-shaped pillars that dot the
stone hills of the Turkish highlands. He believes that Göbekli
Tepe and Karahan Tepe are more than ceremonial sites of
hunter-gatherers—he takes these monuments to be the remnants of a
foundational proto-culture that authored the earliest versions of
the myths and narratives found in the Bible, Torah, and Qur’an.
He walks us through why he believes that the imagery carved into
the stones of Karahan Tepe represents humanity’s first abstract
engagement with the spiritual realm, how the legends developed
were likely the product of the peoples the Sumerians called the
Annunaki, and the pivotal role the serpent symbol plays in
linking the land of the living to the cosmic spheres.





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(00:16:20) Vulture Stone Interpretation (00:24:18) Symbolism of
the Intercontinental Manbag/handbag (00:32:40) Consequences of
the Younger Dryas (00:37:00) Environment of the Taş Tepeler
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Post-Ice Age Civilizations (01:13:07) Early Urban Developments in
Central Turkey (01:20:49) The Anuna and Early Civilizational
Knowledge (01:35:11) The Serpent, Shamanism, and Cosmic
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