Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
€19.89
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 Sumerian tradition who created it
– Reveals the location of the remains of the Garden of Eden in the same region
Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths–built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons–show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched until the rise of the great civilizations of the ancient world, Sumer, Egypt, and Babylon.
Chronicling his travels to Göbekli Tepe and surrounding sites, Andrew Collins details the layout, architecture, and exquisite relief carvings of ice age animals and human forms found at this 12,000-year-old megalithic complex, now recognized as the oldest stone architecture in the world. He explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm–the Great Flood in the Bible–and explains how it served as a gateway and map to the sky-world, the place of first creation, reached via a bright star in the constellation of Cygnus. He reveals those behind its construction as the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian tradition.
Unveiling Göbekli Tepe’s foundational role in the rise of civilization, Collins shows how it is connected to humanity’s creation in the Garden of Eden and the secrets Adam passed to his son Seth, the founder of an angelic race called the Sethites. In his search for Adam’s legendary Cave of Treasures, the author discovers the Garden of Eden and the remains of the Tree of Life–in the same sacred region where Göbekli Tepe is being uncovered today.
ASIN : 1591431425
Publisher : BEAR & CO
Publication date : 1 May 2014
Edition : Illustrated
Language : English
Print length : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781591431428
ISBN-13 : 978-1591431428
Item weight : 717 g
Dimensions : 16.84 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
Terri Forest –
Highly recommended book
R.M.V. –
O meu único livro deste complexo arqueológico, depois de ter visto em documentário televisivos varias referencias.Dá vontade de organizar e viajar até lá….
thuggi –
Gobekli Tepe is an enigma that cries out for an explanation. It is a massive temple complex with some clear astronomical references. Its construction and active usage spanned thousands of years. But its original builders were simple, nomadic hunter-gatherers who shouldn’t have been building anything more than a stick lean-to for a night’s sleep. No dry recounting of site plans and building locations can possibly do it justice. Gobekli Tepe demands that we ask Who? Why? and How? And by extension it makes us ask who we are and how we became the people and society we are today.Collins does an admirable job at addressing these questions. Understanding that such unprecedented structures could only have resulted from a sea-change in human thought and experience, he connects the astronomical aspects of the temple to the Younger Dryas Impact Event which had caused such a physical and psychological upheaval in human existence. Following the same logic that Settegast had outlined in “Plato Prehistorian”, Collins explores how the climactic upheaval of the impact led to global collapse of social structures and widespread human migrations. In addition to the physical affect on humans, the cometary bombardment produced lasting psychological and spiritual changes.Collins traces the wanderings of one group of climactic refugees around the Black Sea and over the Caucasus Mountains to arrive in Asia minor. They leveraged the cultural memories of the people there to establish themselves as a priestly elite with the knowledge of how to appease the wrath of the sky gods. From this position they were able to organize the people to undertake the building of Gobekli Tepe.But this is not just an historical curiosity. The builders of Gobekli Tepe were our progenitors, both culturally and literally. The valleys and hillsides surrounding Gobekli Tepe are where the Neolithic Revolution started. Genetic analysis has traced the ancestors of our modern grains to this very spot.In his evaluation of Gobekli Tepe Collins answers a question that has stymied archaeologists and prehistorians for decades. Why farming? Although you can still find claims that humans took to farming in the face of uncertain food supplies caused by climactic upheaval, this has been proven wrong time and again. Farmers lead a precarious, back-breaking existence, putting in a huge amount of time and labor for a low quality, nutrient poor diet. Farmers face the recurrent threat of crop failure and famine, problems unknown to hunter-gatherers.But farming does produce something that is the hallmark of our modern life – a sedentary culture that supports a non-productive elite characterized by hereditary wealth. Why a free people would willing subjugate themselves to this miserable existence to support a powerful few has puzzled great minds for centuries. Collins has come upon the answer. The subjugation came first; the miserable existence followed.Given his remarkable insights, Collins can be forgiven for the weird bit of how a dream led him to the Garden of Eden. While the Garden of Eden legend certainly ties into this story, Collins could have come up with a less crazy sounding way to explore it.
DK –
I bought this book as a result of a coincidence: having been talking to a friend about Gobekli Tepe when I returned home I went to look up an unconnected book on Amazon and the first thing that came up was this one. I was so stunned I thought someone must be trying to tell me something so I bought it!I am not disappointed. Apart from looking at the material context and nature of the ancient stone circles (the archaeology) Collins attempts to identify the people who built them (anthropology) and understand their motivation (mythology). This is a much more difficult task which leads Collins on a wide ranging cultural tour of detection for possible links. However he doesn’t lose the thread, always managing to relate the discussion to Gobekli,Tepe in a style which is clear and precise. In some ways his book recalled to mind the brilliantly intuitive study of the palaeolithic cave paintings by David Lewis-Williams, `The Mind in the Cave’.In the end his thesis – that Gobekli Tepe was inspired by a group of shamans trading on fears of a cosmic disaster which persuaded people to change their ways – is unpersuasive simply because it is too narrowly based. The fact is that what was happening here was part of much wider change that was going on across the whole of the Levant, from Jordan (Wadi Fayan – which predates Gobekli Tepe) to Syria (Tell Abr) involving significant construction – Collins mentions the tower and walls of Jericho. What all these sites have in common is that they seem to have been built to accommodate ceremonial and ritual practices reflecting a widespread change or development in social organisation. But why?In the end, despite the speculation and supposition, it is a time so distant that we can really know very little. But the importance of Gobekli Tepe is that this `little’ has been enough to radically challenge and overturn the established narratives about the origins of civilization and the so-called Neolithic Revolution. We can now see that one of the most important transformations of human lifestyle in history was driven not so much by material or economic need as spiritual belief, ceremonial and ritual concerns which in turn promoted new ways of living. Unlike in our own materialistic age, homo sapiens emerges from the mists of time preoccupied with the spiritual world which is defined in the context of a symbolic order. It is this that sets modern humans, in their origins, apart from their predecessors and may have contributed to their ultimate dominance. So different is this past to our present that we find it very hard to conceptualise it, let alone understand it – but AndrewCollins deserves full marks for trying.
Srikant Urs –
As indicated by my rating it is excellent