by Satanus 48 Replies latest jw friends
Compare the north american inhabitants to the south american: The norths, the huntergatherers had, mainly, the one god. The souths - incas, aztecs, mayans, etc, who had highly developed agricultures and cities; they also had highly developed pantheons.
S
The temple was built 11,500 yrs ago.
I thought the WTBTS taught we have only been here for about 6000 years... Are you telling me these men are lying to us?
Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like, dbnc.
A really cool animal, maybe a croc
Xanth
Me, too.
S
Totem pillar
'In National Geographic, Charles C. Mann explains what we're seeing in Vincent J. Musi's incredible photos:
To [archaeologist Klaus] Schmidt, the T-shaped pillars are stylized human beings, an idea bolstered by the carved arms that angle from the "shoulders" of some pillars, hands reaching toward their loincloth-draped bellies. The stones face the center of the circle-as at "a meeting or dance," Schmidt says-a representation, perhaps, of a religious ritual. As for the prancing, leaping animals on the figures, he noted that they are mostly deadly creatures: stinging scorpions, charging boars, ferocious lions. The figures represented by the pillars may be guarded by them, or appeasing them, or incorporating them as totems . . . Every few decades people buried the pillars and put up new stones-a second, smaller ring, inside the first. Sometimes, later, they installed a third. Then the whole assemblage would be filled in with debris, and an entirely new circle created nearby. The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.'
The natgeo article http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-text
S
A goddess, perhaps, or porn, not that porn officially existed until the victorians
This column has hands depicted on the front corners. Arms go up, bending at elbows and up to top of column. Just below hands, a belt like depiction. No head on it. On the tv program, they said the missing heads suggested representation of nondivinity.
Pdf article, 2010 by klaus schmidt http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/authors37/37_21.pdf
Some nice pics in there.
S
Great information and photos, S. I may have the chance to visit Turkey for several months late this year or next year. I'll try to visit this site, if it's considered safe for Westerners. Near the Syrian border is a little too close to, well, Syria.
