Part 2: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe

June 19th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Part 2: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe –
Odd Pillar Creatures, Bizarre Totem and Mouthless Man

“The T-shaped pillars have an anthropomorphic identity. But who are they?
As their faces are never depicted, they seem very likely to be related to
supernatural beings, beings gathered at Gobekli Tepe for certain,
but so far unknown, purposes.”

– June 2012 Issue of Actual Archaeology Magazine-Anatolia,
“The First Temple of the World: Gobekli Tepe.”

South (top), West (right), North (bottom) and East (left) view over the main excavation
area at Gobekli Tepe. In the foreground Enclosure D, to the left Enclosure C, in the
background Enclosures B and A. Image © 2012 by DAI, N. Becker, June 2012 issue
of Actual Archaeology Magazine-Anatolia, “The First Temple of the World: Gobekli Tepe.”

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June 18, 2012 Gobekli Tepe 8 miles northeast of Sanliurfa, Turkey – As the sun rose on the eastern horizon June 13, 2012, I first faced the sun and then turned 180 degrees to face the opposite point in the west. Below me in the Gobekli Tepe Section C, a large pillar is cemented to a rectangular base like an altar. On that altar-pillar is a long-bodied animal that doesn’t quite match any known Earth animal today. With the sun shining on my back, that pillar animal was facing me on an east-west axis.

Pink arrow points at Section C pillar on large rectangular base similar to an altar.

To my right in Section D, there is another large pillar mounted on a rectangular base (lower pink arrow), like a second altar repeating the same type of base as in the Section C altar. The Section D altar also faces the sun on an east-west axis.

Foreground pink arrow points at Section D pillar on large rectangular base like an altar.

The Section D altar has two long arms stretching down along the broad sides of the pillar around another animal, perhaps a fox, that has a shorter body and shorter tail. The arms end in five fingers that clasp the pillar. Below the hands is a band of symbols that to date have not been translated. Along the base of the rectangular alter are five strange bird-like creatures.

From the belt of strange symbols “hangs” an animal skin, perhaps fox, with
a long tail between two legs with five toes. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

The June 2012 issue of Turkey’s Actual Archaeology reported about the belt symbols and animal skin: “A belt buckle is visible in both cases, and on the eastern pillar there are some decorations on the belt in form of H- and C-shaped symbols. Furthermore, another attribute is most interesting. On the belt, a loincloth (fox pelt) depicted in relief cut out of the stone is hanging down, covering the genital region … Due to the existence not only of arms and human hands, but also of belts and loincloths on the central pillars of Enclosure D, it can be clearly stated that the T-shaped pillars have an anthropomorphic identity. But who are they? As their faces are never depicted, they seem very likely to be related to supernatural beings, beings gathered at Gobekli Tepe for certain, but so far unknown, purposes.”

Image © 2012 by DAI, N. Becker, Summer 2012 Issue 02 of Actual
Archaeology Magazine-Anatolia, “The First Temple of the World: Gobekli Tepe.”

12,000 Years Ago – Symbols, Creatures and Totem
Long Before Mesopotamia, Egypt and Classic Greeks

Older than Egypt, Sumeria, classical Greeks and Stonehenge, the tallest T-shaped pillars are 19 feet and weigh 7 to 10 tons each. A few unfinished pillars have been found that are 23 to 30 feet long, much larger than any of the finished standing pillars found so far. There is evidence that the pillars were roofed and that the central pair of tallest pillars may have supported a roof. The floors are made of burnt lime, known as terrazzo.

Gobekli Symbol Layers

Pillar carvings are also layered, such as the one below that includes five creatures that arch above a large-toothed wild bore and a smaller bore at the bottom of the pillar. Are the five creatures in the arc like the extinct dodo bird? Or an unknown animal hybrid that has both bird and animal features? Many of the Gobekli Tepe creatures are not recognizable in terms of currently known Earth life.

A dodo sketch from 17th Century Dutch School.
The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless
bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. was about
one meter (3.3 ft) tall and weighed about 10.6 kilograms (23 lb). Its
external appearance is evidenced only by paintings and written accounts
from the 17th century. Because these vary considerably, and only a few
sketches are known to have been drawn from life, its exact appearance
remains a mystery. By the late 1600s, all Dodos had been killed by
hungry sailors, their domesticated animals, and other invasive
species introduced during that time. Source: Wikipedia.

Florida wild bore image by Circleghunting.com.

Greek mythology used the wild boar to rank warrior mettle. Only the lion ranks first above the wild boar, followed by birds of prey. The hunting of the Caledonian boar was one of the most famous episodes in Greek heroic legend.

Zeus’s colleague, the Titan Prometheus, allegedly was chained and punished in the Caucasian Mountains some time around 9,500 B. C., which would be about the same time that the thirty acres of Gobekli Tepe pillars in circles were erected. Those ancient “Greek Gods” could incarnate in different bodies over time as “cycles of gods.” Those ancient advanced Greek gods also had extraordinary abilities such as living outside of linear time.

Stressing the fact that the creatures, symbols and humanoids found in the Gobekli Tepe excavation came long before later cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Mediterranean, the following layers of symbols on one of the Gobekli pillars is especially puzzling in its meaning.

Layer 1: Manacles?

The top layer of handles on rectangles could relate to the much later Minoan symbol for manacles (handcuffs) from 2000 B. C. Middle or Late Minoan Bronze Age.

Source: Wikipedia Phaistos Disc Minoan Middle or Late Bronze Age 2000 B. C.

Layer 2: Vulture and Eternal Disc?

The bird-like figure holding the disc might relate to the much later Nekhbet, white vulture, who was usually depicted with her wings spread frequently clutching a shen symbol (circle with tangent on one side) in both of her claws. Shen derives its name from the ancient Egyptian word, shenu, “to encircle.”

Egyptian Goddess Nekhbet photographed in the unusual
double temple of Kom Ombo from 305 B.C. to 30 B.C.
Photo taken by Hajor, Dec.2001.

The shen is a symbol for eternity, infinity and protection, which is why it evolved as a cartouche to surround names. In ancient Egypt, it was believed that without a name, a person was incomplete and when a person was incomplete, they could not pass into the afterlife successfully. Royal names had to be protected for all eternity and thus, the shen came to surround names, to protect them for all time.

Layer 3: Scorpion

There are more than 1300 species of scorpions worldwide. Scorpions can slow their metabolism down to live without food or water for a year. The scorpion’s most feared and recognized feature is its sting. The sting contains a neurotoxin, which the scorpion uses to paralyze the victim, so it is easier to kill and eat. Scorpions also stay hidden under rocks and that makes their body temperature cooler.

Even when the scorpion’s body has slowed down to barely functioning, it can still quickly snap into action to catch a meal. But when a scorpion attacks its prey, it first excretes enzymes through its fangs, or chelicerae. Those enzymes then break down the victim’s tissue before it enters the scorpion’s body as external digestion. That way, the scorpion maximizes the nutrients that it sucks out of its meal without squandering the energy involved in internal digestion.

Scorpions are the longest-living arachnid species, able to survive as long as twenty-five years in a variety of climates having maybe only a couple dozen meals in a lifetime. For Samarians on the West Bank of the Jordan River in the ancient kingdom of Israel, the scorpion was linked to the Sun. Ancient writings depict Scorpion-men guarding sacred gateways leading to ascension, pleasure and enlightenment. Death symbolism comes into play in Greco-Roman mythology where Artemis (Diana) used the Scorpion to sting Orion’s foot, which caused his death. Afterwards, Zeus (Jupiter) made the Scorpion a zodiac sign among the stars. Ironically, scorpion venom is the antidote for its sting, so the scorpion signifies protection and warding off evil in Egypt and Tibet. But what exactly did the scorpion mean to the builders of Gobekli Tepe?

Layer 4: Another Bird

The bottom layer is another bird. Turkey’s June 2012 issue of Actual Archaeology reports about this bottom carved layer of this pillar: “To the right of the (bottom) bird’s neck… due to damage to the pillar it is not preserved completely, but the representation of a headless human with an erect penis is quite clearly recognizable. His condition could indicate a violent death, and his company of scorpions and vultures strengthens this impression.”

Other carved creatures include 3-D feline figures with long tails; hyenas, wild asses, herons, ducks, ants, spiders, many snakes and some humanoid figures with odd faces. Some of the limestone pillar carvings have been deliberately erased, for unknown reasons.

Urfa Museum: Safe Haven
for Highly Strange Gobekli Artifacts

Shockingly, in June 2012 before our tour group arrived, one of the excavated Gobekli sculptures was stolen and an investigation is underway with Klaus Schmidt’s cooperation. The theft has provoked even more security at the hill excavation and the transfer of valuable 12,000-year-old artifacts to the local Urfa Museum in Sanliurfa. When we visited on June 13, 2012, after the sunrise morning at Gobekli Tepe, I was disturbed by the eerie, haunting, puzzling Gobekli sculptures, especially a totem about six feet tall to the left of a short alien-looking being. The tall non-human encompasses totem scenes going downward inside its totem body into the birth of a human-looking baby.

What appears to be snakes and heads on either side of the tall humanoid figure above turn into the knees of the totem body giving birth to the human-looking baby below.

Turkey’s June issue of Actual Archaeology reports, “One of the biggest surprises at Gobekli Tepe was a large sculpture reminiscent of the totem poles of North American Natives, which was discovered in 2009 and excavated in 2010. The sculpture had been set into the northeastern wall of a rectangular room and was not visible originally due to the wall completely covering it. The remarkable length is 1.92 meters (6 feet 4 inches). The uppermost motif depicts a predator.”

Gobekli’s Urfa Man

The June 2012 issue of Actual Archaeology describes the Gobekli statue known as “Urfa man” this way: “Male statues like the life-size Urfa statue, can be dated to the Early Neolithic as well. The Urfa statue has a face. Its eyes are depicted by black crystals of obsidian. Below the eyes are the nose, broken off, and a sunken chin without a mouth. Also, the statue seems to be naked with the exception of a V-shaped necklace. [ Others argue the V-neck is a leotard-type body suit.]
It is not entirely clear, but it seems that the hands are holding the Urfa man’s phallus. Legs are not depicted. Below the body there is only a conical tab, which allows the statue to be set into the ground easily.”

Urfa Man images at Urfa Museum, Sanliurfa, Turkey,
above and below © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

To be continued in Part 3: Why was Gobekli buried 1,000 years after its creation?

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Also see Earthfiles Archive:
• 10/01/2010 — Gobekli Tepe: 12,000 Years Old and Rewriting Human History

More Information:

For future ancient site tour information:

– Ancient Civilization Tours with Gregory Poplawski, Poland: http://www.timeofanewera.com

– Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., Geology, Boston University: http://www.robertschoch.com/

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