Karahan Tepe | The Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the 21st Century | Andrew Collins

Explore Turkey: www.megalithom.... Karahan Tepe is unquestionably the greatest archaeological discovery of the twenty-first century. A sister site of Gobekli Tepe, it is located around 30 miles away in the Tektek Mountains of southeast Turkey. Since 2019 archaeological teams under the command of Dr Necmi Karul of Istanbul University have uncovered huge stone enclosures forming part of a massive ceremonial complex covering an area of around 10 hectares. The 11,000-year-old monumental architecture present at Karahan Tepe displays precision geometry, astronomical alignments, immense sophistication in design as well as a mindset of its inhabitants wherein it is clear that the objectives of constructing these special buildings was to connect with a cosmic source recognised by the symbol of the snake. Most important of all about the discoveries being made right now at Karahan Tepe is that it tells us Gobekli Tepe was not some one off anomaly but was part of an extremely sophisticated society that can now be recognised as a lost civilization of the ancients that thrived in the immediately aftermath of the last ice age. Andrew reveals everything we know so far about Karahan Tepe, having investigated the culture behind its creation across the past 25 years and visited Karahan Tepe on many occasions. He attempts to answer the questions of who built it, when, and why, and relates its builders to the Watchers and Nephilim of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki of Sumerian and Babylonian mythological tradition.
Andrew Collins is one of the world’s most renowned authorities on the world of Gobekli Tepe, being the first ancient mysteries writer to feature it in book form within his 2006 book The Cygnus Mystery. He has gained a strong reputation for reporting the facts correctly and in a manner accessible to a general audience. Andrew is also a lead proponent of the concept of a lost civilization and has a massive following on social media and on KZbin, where he regularly posts videos on the latest discoveries in the ancient mysteries subject. His key video on Karahan’s Discoveries can by found at the following link: • ANDREW COLLINS UNPACKS... . His website is www.andrewcolli...
Megalithomania is taking a group there in September 2024 including special access to Karahan Tepe. Details here: www.megalithoma...
Filmed at the Megalithomania Conference on 7th - 8th May 2022, Glastonbury, UK.
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Karahan Tepe Supercivilization - • Karahan Tepe Supercivi...
Winter Solstice Discovery at Karahan Tepe - • Karahan Tepe Discovery...
Interview with Andrew Collins - • Karahan Tepe Revelatio...
10,500 year-old Karahan Tepe: Göbekli Tepe's Sister Site - • 10,500 year-old Karaha...
The Unfinished Monolith at Karahan Tepe - • 10,500 year-old Karaha...
2018 Exploration with Andrew Collins - • Karahan Tepe | Gobekli...
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Megalithomania is taking a group to Karahan Tepe, Gobekli Tepe and ancient Turkey in September 2024 with guest host Andrew Collins. Details here: www.megalithomania.co.uk/easternturkey.html

[@lyrigageforge3259]

In Finnish language, which is rather old - the milky-way is called the track aka path / trail of the bird (linnunrata). The Finnish sauna, which is protected as cultural heritage - has archaeological history of about 9K years. And there are some genetic markers left in Finno-Ugric people that trace to hunter-gatherers - and some other such, notably to neanderthals and denisovans. My point is that Finnish language has been around for a time, in it's various forms, never mind the proto-form. I don't claim anything complicated or silly with these points made - but I do find it funny how essential this bird symbol seems to be at this site, how it ties to the stars and the milky-way. It is funny to find odd bits of connections that may have something to it, even if there is nothing really to be confirmed. Bit the same as the similarity between American native legend about 'Sky Woman' and the Finnish origin story involving Ilmatar (Air Maiden) - on one hand both stories are different, but this idea of female air entity is very similar. As for a snake - I think they found a stick that may have been carved in shape of snake at some archaeological dig in Finland and women still have traditional snake rings that wrap around your finger. Well that said, it was simply a statement about how funny it is to notice things that seem to have either fascinated or even meant something to people in different parts of the world, which almost echo connections unseen, hard to prove. But then again, I tend to like that legendary and mythological side of the matters quite a bit. It's wee bit like somewhere between fantasy and reality. Except that it is all blurred as to what is but imagination, and what the old cultures actually may have believed. For someone like me, who writes fantasy for her own fun - it's also material to toy with. But that said - I love history - and while no-one in their sane mind would risk a trip back in time - lol... one still wishes for a tiny fly drone fitted with a camera and mic to observe it all from the safe distances (^^). It really is a bit annoying to not know for sure what all those little echos from the past mean or how they lived then.

[@kerribartlett2849]

The snakes look like the letter Nun in ancient Hebrew. Which among other things, could be sperm ( unstoppable )

[@armenuhigrigoryan2365]

Could you please explain "What 😂 does it mean", Ancient Turkey,you mean prehistoric????

[@maughan3061]

While camping in Dorset during the heatwave this summer, I fell asleep lying in the long grass of a meadow the heat fading as the sun dipped below the horizon. Waking in the dead of night the first thing my eyes focussed on was the Milky way a huge celestial curtain slowly sweeping across the sky. I remembered previous lectures by Andrew and was able to identify the Great rift and Cygnus. As I lay there, my braincells exploding with the magnitude, an Owl flew silently over between me and these stellar clouds.

[@canonaler]

Gaii

[@anonony9081]

Owls are closely linked with many weird sightings and encounters. Check out the koncrete podcast he did a whole interview with a guy who has been researching owl encounters

[@maughan3061]

@@anonony9081 Thats really interesting thanks I'm on to that.

[@elwyberge6286]

So beautifully written!🙂🪽

[@maughan3061]

@@elwyberge6286 Wow thanks. That's really nice of you.

[@sancocho1718]

We, people of today, suffer from light bias. That is, we have grown up in a society with light pollution. So, we never really consider the stars as our ancestors did. Humanity has observed the night sky for tens of thousands of years, and we've only had electricity for 140 years. This is why most sights have many astronomical alignments. We tend to forget that these people, were just as observant, intelligent and had the same deductive capacity as us. They observed their world, extremely carefully, because it was literally a matter of life and death. When there were times of plenty, and leaner times. When animals migrated, gave birth. When plants, fruits, nuts, wild grains would be available. When fish spawned. When birds laid eggs. Is it any wonder why, most of these sites are associated with life, death, and the stars.

[@garywhitt98]

I think these places were schools where a story was taught to the young using the constellations as memory images. Each constellation, represented by its image, carries a part of the story, part of the “song”. The tribal Bard would be responsible for transmitting this tribal knowledge to the young. What is the story? “In the beginning… now the Snake was more crafty… and the Lion will come… and the Serpent will rise out of the Sea….”. And so you teach the young, “when you rise up and when you lie down.”

[@cdfdesantis699]

Thanks so much, Mr. Collins. Great work. Keep pushing back the history. Humans have been doing amazing things a lot longer than we give ourselves credit for.

[@robertbeerbohm1800]

Fascinating. World history as perceived by many is being re-written every year now as "we" have rediscovered so much. Thank you for sharing what you and others fortunate enough to be able to trek and bear witness to these sites

[@mariansmith7694]

Speaking to things your group sees, that experts dont, underlines the value of fresh eyes. This is so important.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Technical Note: Dear Andrew, Without familiar objects in your photos, e.g. a human, a car, a matchbox, it's often difficult for viewers to appreciate the SCALE of your finds. Ask any angler! 😉 (Kindest from Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉

[@geoffreynhill2833]

PS: The same goes for ARGOS Catalogues!!!

[@SV-mr5ux]

So glad to see this presentation! 👍🏽

[@davebremixes]

Andrew demonstrates his clear understanding of the various sites, artefacts and history. Another great presentation from #MegalithomaniaUK Thanks for sharing 👍👍

[@alohaservant]

written in stone, in the stars, the heavens. I so enjoyed this presentation A,Collins. Your excitement is well understood. many thanks.

[@miamihoser]

These eclipses and the port holes remind me of the basic designs for particle accelerators- wow - love this stuff. Looking forward to Turkey next year

[@fatihcambel]

Thank you for presentation keep up work

[@davidlancaster8152]

Couldn't the wriggling through the portal stones also simulate birth? Very shamanic notion. Facinating presentation. Thanks Andrew!

[@sarahdafoe6375]

Totally and the elliptical area is shaped like a snake’s egg, being birthed from the egg into the chamber…

[@jeffatwood9417]

There is a Swedish folk practice to split birch trees in a way to spread a hole through the trunk. The folk tradition was to be birthed through the tree in order to heal sickness.

[@davidlancaster8152]

@@jeffatwood9417 shamanic indeed. Thanks for that information. Appreciate your input. Please be well.

[@turnipsociety706]

doesn't sound very shamanistic. More like metaphorical

[@davidlancaster8152]

@@turnipsociety706 you obviously know nothing about shamanism.

[@spiritualhumanist]

Conan the Barbarian movie is probably close to explaining the lost civilization. Different abilities than ordinary people.

[@okgroomer1966]

The keepers of the horn?🤣🤣

[@ZiggyDan]

Great stuff, just what I need.

[@nathanmoak1515]

i have been interested in ancient history for most of my life. what i have learned is that if you look back more than 5000 years, everything gets very fuzzy. there is nothing written in a language that we can decifer. it's like looking through a telescope back a few million light years and trying to figure out if anyone is looking back at us. there is a lot of conjecture and speculations and theories. you can dig up pieces of civilazation and try to figure it out, but you may never find out if you are right or wrong. we are still trying to figure out what the pyramids were built for and when and how long it took.

[@JonathonCant]

Interestingly I understand that the first people’s of Australia have a very similar relationship with those stars and that dark rift in the Milky Way.

[@golden1789]

What a treat to have this marvellous scholar for Christmas. Thank you.

[@garethde-witt6433]

Unfortunately these are still guesses and no one will ever know the origins of such sites. Of course there were civilisations way before what we think, and we are not really an advanced civilisation, there are methods and understanding that has been long forgotten and that didn’t get passed down. We are so arrogant and to presume that we can understand ancient cultures is ridiculous.

[@loisraymcinnis6006]

If you were in a boat in the dark with a guide; he sees in the dark by following the tops of the tree's shapes to know his way. So the constellations are on the land below; the continents are worlds.

[@DragonWizards]

As Andrew says, the main totems were the Vulture and the Snake, this was in his early work, the snake of course is the Sacred Serpent (Serpents) which resides and flows across and through all planetary bodies and has its origin (for the earth) in the Galactic centre which is epitomised by the Vulture with out stretched wings, which if you have seen the latest galactic images which show the tips (like wings) of the galaxy tipping, one up and the other opposite down... a most brilliant description and use of natural animals to describe these powerful plasma energies that have created our worlds.

[@loril.mangold8160]

The snake Also represents kundalini, /energy,

[@rodchristoffersen7052]

not just energy, but also infinity (the snakes head eating the tail) and perhaps the black hole/ infinite singularity

[@raywhitehead730]

These sites were not only very old but they predate the making of pottery. And some were continuously inhabited for up to 4 thousand years. They did have copper, but no copper tools have been found, apparently, copper was used for ornamental jewelry. Some sites have had thousands of beads found. Very fascinating. My theory is that they were founded along animal migratory routes. The round structures, lodges, we're for ceremonies

[@fatcat1325]

Very vivid imagination about what could have gone on in KT, but for all we know it could have been a water amusement park or concert hall. 😂 What is clear though is advance civilisations did exist in 9000BC, and I would caution labelling it as a "cradle" of civilisation, you could imagine it might have been the END of a far older great civilisation. After all, remember the Sumerian Annunaki history supposedly goes back 400 000 years.

[@okgroomer1966]

This seems a much more rational answer but probably not good for a documentary or lecture. "Hello everyone, we have no idea how old this place is. Good night".🤣

[@Mr.sister.G]

The hypothesis of the snake could be a representation of the wave of sound and vibrations, as this whole settlement is directed to music. After all, the origin of the universe is vibration, sound and frequency.

[@marksweet6298]

It would be fascinating to experience this concept in virtual reality.

[@davidmurphy619]

If I was the stylish alien I know I am...well.. I would build a pyramid second to none with steps coming up to the top which is precisely twice the diameter of the shiny wheel I drive... That way they could all see my comings and goings....and roll out a red carpet when I get back and have thousands kneeling all the way to my temple....

[@nancyvolker3342]

there could be something much more ancient under GP than most would even think to look for I'm looking into it if I find more I will let you know

[@PandarenCH]

Have you found something?

[@thepaulhenderson]

Another good one! You guys need to publish an illustrated guide to these sites. I'd love to have a photo album of all the items in the Puma Punku video, especially the seldom seen incredible artifacts in their "warehouse." Those photos aren't available anywhere else, and those items are never included in the various computer "reconstructions" of the site. Keep up the great work!

[@scottzema3103]

I believe that the presence of animals in the carvings at these sites are possibly early totems identifying social groups; for example, the Fox or Snake clans, whose animals as you point out seem to dominate in the carvings of animals and possibly related to some sort of ritual progress, connected for example to coming of age rituals or rites of passage in primitive cultures (or even in higher culture, such as a Bar Mitzvah ritual). There is a strong possibility that these clans evolved into formal cults, and later into established religions in later culture, notably the animal based Egyptian religion. I think the model for ancient Neolithic cultures might be found in historical pre-pottery civilizations such as the Northwest Coastal tribes of North America. In fact the organization of the longhouses with their separated benches indicating tribal status seem to recall those stone enclosures at Karahan Tepe. No formal religion necessarily but revealing the importance of animal clans or phratries originally based on family social status, such as the Eagle phratry or the Raven phratry. Modern Neolithic cultures as models for ancient culture in Turkey. Societies or male fraternity structures in Melanesia or sub-Saharan Africa are other examples. Certainly ancestor worship might have been prominent. In later civilization one sees the Imperial cults associated with Roman emperors, personalities evolved into deities with their own priests and temples as an example of religious rituals derived from social connections without specific astronomical associations or basis. Getting on with this discussion, it was not necessary for these ancient cultures to dwell too intensively on astronomical details because of the assumption that these early Neolithic cultures were indeed of a basic hunting, gathering, and trading nature and were not agriculturally based, and so were not concerned with astronomical indicators important to farming matters. The lecturer mentions all sorts of alignments of structures against the compass (but perhaps not against each other) which don't in the end really seem to have any consistent intellectual framework. Perhaps astronomical ideas at this early date in culture had no special importance. These people had no telescopes. The temples in Malta seem to illustrate this indifference with astronomical alignments, for instance, which do not appear in temples until later in the Neolithic and the interest in agriculture as central to the culture, the earlier temples revealing an interest especially in fertility and fertility imagery. SZ BA MA UW Seattle

[@stevengirton3745]

If you’ve never been in a place far enough away from any man made light to experience the Milky Way you definitely should. It’s an amazing experience

[@liamporter6243]

An instant like, just to hear them pronounce Gobekli Tepe or Karahan Tepe is gold.

[@sirendipityful]

I particularly enjoy the totally different pronunciation of Tepe. Gobekli TEpaaay but Karahan tePAAAY

[@brynduffy]

According to Wikipiedia, "In the Chinese love story of Qi Xi, Deneb marks the magpie bridge across the Milky Way, which allows the separated lovers Niu Lang (Altair) and Zhi Nü (Vega) to be reunited on one special night of the year in late summer. In other versions of the story, Deneb is a fairy who acts as chaperone when the lovers meet."

[@melmarrison8769]

could the pit with the pillars be full of water and reflected what was seen through the porthole?

[@nycgweed]

Easier to.lift stone in water

[@Dallasl_andscaping_.]

Structure AD was a domed ancient healing temple. Those kinds of temples are suppressed. A sick person would sit inside for days sometimes and a temple priest would interpret their dreams. Plaques about previous healings would sit inside these nice little built out squares in the walls.

[@chiefhutch8993]

Wow very great presentation

[@1000YearsofPeaceplan]

Love Andrew, great presentation

[@terranu1]

Man there were civilizations as far back as 50 million years ago on this planet. We can't fathom such vastity so we limit ourselves to finding stuff that is at most 12000 yrs old, it's like a hardcoded mental limit, everything must be at most 12k yrs old. Now that is when the Atlanteean culture vanished in a cataclysmic event so its not by chance we limit ourserlves to not find things older than that. Like if you suffered a deep trauma, you end up refusing to remember events before that lead up to it, you only remember things after the trauma ended.

[@beverly3397]

Many Blessings Mr. Collins! Cygnus constellation is still being talked about today as the Swan/Phoenix in astrology 😄😄

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Astrology is bullshit!

[@loisraymcinnis6006]

People don't climb Mount Everest and die for a medal. They know what is on the other side.

[@davesmith5656]

I'm fairly confident that in the absence of microscope, they had no idea what "a sperm" looked like. I'm not giving a lecture on archaeology, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn last night!

[@eugenestandingbear6516]

Very good presentation, thank you.

[@peathead4450]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting! Combining the story Andrew tells about the snake pit (with tha ladder) and the lighting of the snake head in Karahan Tepe, it makes it all the more likely that the pit with the head was roofed.

[@tikitiki7610]

fascinating!! thank you

[@Dodgevair]

"I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance, in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high-ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. "It's still classified above Top Secret." - Senator Barry Goldwater, 1975 “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with the government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical World AFFIDAVIT (1) My name is Thomas Jefferson Dubose (2) My address is: XXXXXXXXXX (3) I retired from the U.S. Air force in 1959 with the rank of Brigadier General. (4) In July 1947, I was stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field [later Carswell Air Force Base] in Fort Worth, Texas. I served as Chief of Staff to Major General Roger Ramey, Commander, Eighth Air Force. I had the rank of Colonel. (5) In early July, I received a phone call from Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen, Deputy Commander, Strategic Air Command. He asked what we knew about the object which had been recovered outside Roswell, New Mexico, as reported in the press. I called Col. William Blanchard, Commander of the Roswell Army Air Field, and directed him to send the material in a sealed container to me at Fort Worth. I so informed Maj. Gen. McMullen. (6) After the plane from Roswell arrived with the material, I asked the Base Commander, Col. Al Clark, to take possession of the material and to personally transport it in a B-26 to Maj. Gen. McMullen in Washington, D.C. I notified Maj. Gen. McMullen, and he told me he would send the material by personal courier on his plane to Benjamin Chidlaw, Commanding General of the Air Material Command at Wright Field [later Wright Patterson AFB]. The entire operation was conducted under the strictest secrecy. (7) The material shown in the photographs taken in Maj. Gen. Ramey’s office was a weather balloon. The weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press. (8) I have not been paid or given anything of value to make this statement, which is the truth to the best of my recollection. Signed: T. J. Dubose Date: 9/16/91 Signature witnessed by: Linda R. Split Notary Public, State of Florida. "There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. “ - Daniel Inouye Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (Iran-Contra hearings) (1987) REMOTE VIEWING (a technique developed by our CIA and Stanford Research Institute) PER FARSIGHT INSTITUTE data suggests...Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven... AND..As the Quran has it, Prophet Muhammad took a night trip to heaven aboard a trusty winged pony-horse-mule-ish creature called Buraq... Many other topics begin to make sense.. It has been said that after President Carter was finally briefed on the et reality, he was deeply upset. For several weeks.. MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and others such as Bob Lazar, Andrew Basiago and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL and associated TIME TRAVEL cover-ups. It would also be nice to know what the results of the many years/projects involving the back-engineering of recovered "vehicles" are. Who has been footing the bill for that? How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The longer an "official" disclosure is delayed...the more disruptive it could be and the longer our slavery will stay entrenched. The general public is waiting to be given permission to believe...to know.

[@BubuH-cq6km]

who would have thought Uncle Fester was interested in archeology 🤷🏼‍♂

[@davidlancaster8152]

That's uncalled for and extremely disrespectful. Even to Jackie Coogan.

[@wafikiri_]

What a weird way to pronounce Tepe! After so many years studying Karahan Tepe, Andrew Collins should know the second e in Tepe is pronounced exactly like the first.

[@funkeserenityportait]

Two standing stones in the middle - man and women or mother and father, The standing stones on the perimeter are years one through twelve and the hole is the rebirth (birth canal) into the thirteen year where the phallus are erected (adulthood). It's completely seperated from the first circle as the initiate progresses to the next stage of life. The holes structure is a progression of the life stages witth ancestors going to the mountain (snake) in physical form and the soul to Deneb (vulture) in the sky. Just a guess with a wild imagination.

[@funkeserenityportait]

The Journey is a coiled snake. The phallus's likely represent the number of offspring one would have in that stage of life. The upright Milky Way would be the vagina birth canal that one enters when they die. The snake pit might be where the deceased are placed until the Milky Way lines up at which point they are cremated. Without a write language the ritual conveyed would provide all that was needed to retain knowlwdge of the proper lifecycle.

[@woodspirit98]

Or not

[@toxicblackwidow9841]

No more imagination than Andrew Collins. You should write a book about it and make as much money as Collins with his fancy stories ! 😉

[@raulbancroft2552]

Don’t sell yourself short. Everyone is just guessing unless we have definitive writing or other from the inhabitants to explain the true purpose. The quality of the guess and likelihood of it being correct comes back to Ockham’s razor - when presented with an unverifiable unknown the logical thing to do is to use the explanation that requires the least amount of steps, parts, etc. required to get the final solution. For example, when looking at KT one could say, someone found a collection of stones with interesting natural features that they expanded on slightly to form what we have today. That would be a preferred explanation to - Someone quarried the stones carried them and then collected workers to create a very specific religiously important representation of all the myths and beliefs of their culture. Even though it’s likely that the second one seems to make more sense, until we had something verifiable selecting the process that required the least amount assumptions is our best option because the likeyhood of it being the correct answer is statistically the highest. Yours is a pretty good explanation based on that principle.

[@chrismartenable]

Absolutely incredible, not only did these people have the ability to design & plan but they were sophisticated cosmologists. As this could only have been carved out of the bedrock with metal tools. What happened to them?

[@okgroomer1966]

You don't know it was metal tools. They could've had knowledge that would be completely foreign to modern man that allowed such construction. Or, metal being likely scarce it would not be waisted so we don't find it discarded. People over hundreds of years would've taken anything metal left behind by accident. We know materials were used for other projects over time and any handy tools would be the first things taken. These sites would've spent hundreds of years out in the open after being abandoned. They were picked clean long before rediscovery

[@ScorpIron58]

@@okgroomer1966 I understood that Gobekli Tepe (at least) had been deliberately buried; so you're not likely to bury your tools ! I know I wouldn't !

[@brynduffy]

Thank you for an excellent presentation!

[@FINNIUSORION]

Good stuff. Why do we say it's religious and or ceremonial? Because that's what we say about other sites with zero physical proof in that direction. If our current generation of archeologists and related academics were two thousand years in the future and found a McDonald's arch they would say it's religious and we must have worshiped a red haired clown God 🤡. These people that built all these amazing structures had the exact same brain as us. Many of their structures were far more utilitarian than we give them credit for. They wouldn't be wasting so much energy on such things...I can't remember the last time I built a ceremonial structure.

[@galeocean4182]

I agree about citing religion as a purpose for many archeological finds, but I can't think of any utilitarian use for these tepe sites. Can you?

[@FINNIUSORION]

@@galeocean4182 if someone in the future found a bike rack but didn't know what a bike is what would they think it was? They would make guesses but they could never get it correctly without the prerequisite knowledge of the bicycle. I think that might be where we are with a lot of these sites.

[@lindsaydickson47]

Having a person wiggle through that 70cm diameter length sounds like a birth.

[@blackpearl44704]

I am a Turk, and i feel like this all related to Sahmaran, Turkish Myth, well,not anymore. She is real.

[@stephenelberfeld8175]

Jupiter exalted in Sagittarius is the "Wheel of Fortune" which like the snake swallowing its tail is a symbol for a cycle. For Minoans, winter was the season of the snake. On the soapstone cup from ancient India with an androgen holding two serpents there is the ox and Lion as well. I think it is from Mohengo Daro.

[@mariansmith7694]

I'm watching this in Solstice Season, 2022. I so want to go with you all in September 2023.

[@LucideLeven]

I can't imagine you being there at 2923, but okay :P

[@timboslice980]

The thing I find most interesting about these sites is how they were filled in. It's like end of the ice age, time to bury all this stuff we've been doing for thousands of years. Also there's been shockingly little carbon date work done. Only 4 samples from gebekli tepe

[@SCHULTZEH]

Thank you

[@cheribreier3188]

I so I Enjoyed this lecture.Thank you

[@haroldmorris5901]

Not by a long shot. But you need to get your views up. Good luck.

[@nancyvolker3342]

there is mention of it by Tony Rodriguez in his latest interview i think it was with James Rink

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Two more charlatans and frauds.

[@webbking49]

Thanks for the context banner big bro!!

[@BaumMentor]

The 10° orientation to the northeast has something to do with form energy. We find this everywhere in Northern Europe, in ancient stone settings and stone circles. But also all ancient churches are built 3° offset to the northeast. This gives the building a positive vortex that brings with it a building energy that can be felt by anyone who enters an old church in Germany. The porthole is clearly an energy funnel, meaning that the energy collected inside is sent through the porthole to a central point. Where the energy was sent to is determined by the stone setting where the energy was generated and sent through the porthole. Simply draw an extension of all the plants through the portholes, which should be a central point, or the plants were connected in series and each plant amplifies what was sent to it.

[@PAPITO_49]

At minute 29:50 showing this head, to myself it appears to look like a carving from the Olmec culture located in the museum of Jalapa (Xalapa) Mexico.

[@andrewconrad2859]

Fantastic. Loved "Ashes of Angels" The phrase "visage like a viper" has stuck with me for 20 years. Andrew Collins> Andrew Conrad> Andrew Cuomo

[@iulyanah]

Very good lecture. Thank you

[@rebeccataylor6577]

Thankyou my friend. Hopefully I’m moving over there to a place with little light pollution and will be able to understand how the ancients monitored our world x

[@okgroomer1966]

If people keep moving there it will keep getting more lights.🤦‍♂️

[@jeffatwood9417]

the snake pit looks like a kiva from Hopi religion. The vulture-panther and eagle-lion is interesting. Eagle-Lion tends to follow a fiery nature, but a Vulture-Panther has a bit of a different underworld quality. American shamanic cultures identify the Eagle with Northern traditions and the Condor/Vulture in the Southern traditions. The Etana myth typifies the Eagle/Serpent conflict that could have related to cult histories of conflict. Were Sumerian people as "black-headed people," the Southern people or...? Myths hold histories by symbolic narratives, allegory, and key technologies. They personify ideas, emotions, material phenomenon and other things as the oral tradition of wisdom keeping was used to hold culture together. I think all these global temple structures evolved together and connected global migratory communities within a common religious paradigm, obviously with variations. The healers as snake charmers and worm extractors continue to utilize that symbology in the modern symbol for doctoral skills. The caduceus or the Rod of Asclepius shows the symbolic serpent upon the divine world tree. T-pillars are quite similar to the Saxon idea, and a modern variation, of Irminsul. Snakes as water and fire beings are interesting, like dragons in China. Watching the red lines in hot coals makes it easy to understand how fire can relate, but the Etana myth has a little clue. The serpent had to hide in a bull's carcass to entice the eagle to feast, since his hunger was the reason the Serpent lost her children.He lost his feathers, which is why he couldn't leave the earth pit. Similarly, the Æsir of Icelandic myth killed Thiazi by burning his feathers away. Krishanu in India, the archer Asura who was supposed to protect the elixir of immortality, Soma, shot at the phoenix that Indra rode to make it lose a feather. The feather fell and became the first Agni fire altar on earth. These sites are an exciting view of how religious narratives matched our animal's ability to shape matter into things our minds can imagine as abstract imagery. The oral tradition preserved so many memories that humans forget. As Solon was told by his Egyptian informant, because the Greeks did not write histories they were doomed to be forever children, and because of that the Greeks did not know the Great people from whom they descended...suggesting that Egyptians did remember!

[@ltlwlwl5057]

What's really funny here is.... They are now saying those birds aren't Vultures but actually Cranes. That land was once very wet with rivers and marshes. Its seasonal Wet vs Dry... these people only acknowledged two season.... Wet vs Dry. The Cranes and Scorpions are seem during the Wet season. This place is basically a huge Hunting Camp. Ancient Men were more practical than nerdy educated guys want to give credit for.

[@DavidfromMichigan]

Looking at the history of animals, they all seem to have been huge many years ago. Makes sense to think that the human, at one time, was huge.

[@rickyvengeance]

Excellent!

[@netizencapet]

Note about the so-called PPN (Pre-pottery Neolithic) designation of Göbekli Tepe: An actual terra cotta mug was found at Karahan Teple in the stratum of around 9 to 10K BC(E). Also, the stone vessels there may not be fired but the patterning on them is very similar to much later terra cotta fired pottery. So does this change the notion of when pottery culture began? Maybe it doesn't insofar as the firing techniques of later peoples are not yet in evidence. However, perhaps they will be found at the other unexcavated sites? Either way, I think it's solidly confirmed that they were not agrarian and - at least in theory - were before animal domestication. What is fascinating is that previous notions of "grain surplus precedes monumental temple development" is flat wrong. While that's no excuse for entertaining silly comparisons to Gothic sculpture (or even New Kingdom Egyptian) which is FAR, FAR more advanced than the primitive sculpture at Gobekli Tepe or elsewhere in Cappadocia, it is a lesson to remain open minded. That he could even make the comparison shows a criminal lack of nuance. Then again, linking it to later Levant myths specifically - rather than generally - seems spurious. An unexplored potential revision of previous assumptions of "firsts" (in my unprofessional view) would be the severed skull preservation and posterior decoration cult we see in evidence both in Gobekli Tepe and Gürcütepe, which seem to striking echoes in the skull storage and decoration pracrtices 2500 to 3,000 years later at Çatalhöyük, other Neolithic sites in Turkey, and even Jericho.

[@okgroomer1966]

What if this place was inhabited/visited over thousands of years. Who can say when a mug arrived? I think it gives 1 data point at best and we really have no clue when this was built. Probably never will either

[@rodchristoffersen7052]

I think I saw somewhere else that they used advanced glues/ resins in weapon/ tool manufacture. The archeologists missed this key point in their talk about this that the resisns were activated at 4-7 hundred degrees and so must have required a crucible to contain it. Would stone/ bone/ or some other item have been suficient for this?

[@netizencapet]

@@rodchristoffersen7052 I feel like our mutual observations of these points demand for a rejection of the rigid, blockhead style assumptions implicit in the hard PPN (Pre-Pottery Neolithic) view that so many archaeologists are comfortable regurgitating while checking their common sense at the door: that suspiciously strong antecedents, even qualifying examples of practices that later bloom into full-fledged, dominant ways of life, are seen LONG before the big movements spring forth due to giant shifts in production patterns and their associated demography and social relations. I make the same inference with regard to the severed skull preservation and decoration cult: that this practice could in fact date from 15K or 20K years BCE and reflect the deep roots not only of the early Bronze age in the Neolithic, but even of Neolithic religion in the Paleolithic. The reason they do this is because they offhandedly and subconsciously confuse moden scientific innovation, or manifesto-launched literary or artistic trends, where - due to innovation's degree of specificity and the formality of its discourse - the shift to a new paradigm or tendency can be precisely identified, with the much more estuarial process of paradigmatic productional transitions, which are more shifts of prevelance, intensity, and compositional formality than strictly innovations per se. They know this but though rote habit don't talk as if they know it, and these bad habits then affect their overall mindset.

[@rodchristoffersen7052]

The reality is that these new discoveries have not been fully excavated yet and untill they publish the results they will not admit anything. Thats good in a lot of ways but for those of us who find this incredibly interesting frustratingly time consuming. I bet any help they can get would be greatly appreciated. @@netizencapet

[@rebisreturn888]

Thankyou 💓🌳

[@SittingWithIlluminedMasters]

These ancient sites are "Honor Grounds" They were built to honor those from elsewhere that died on this planet during the beginning stages of the expansion of Consciousness in man, but specifically all of creation, and at times of war between several interplanetary beings. Although there were times when these beings had to bury the dead in the Earth, the overwhelming majority of time they built these monuments to them and then transported their bodies back to their home world or disintegrated their bodies. Many more of these sites are to be found the world over, including America! Life is about to become far more interesting and magnificent for all of those who go inward for their answers!! I Love You All!!!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Really amazing. All this was made without metals tools, of course.

[@robertlee4809]

We do not know that..

[@gilaschannel1855]

Very interesting and informative, thank you.

[@dermagerhaser6622]

I still agree with Prof. Schmidt at his first attempt of dating... when he said 18,000 years ago... my first thought was "he might be right"... he also said that he thought there were more structures buried even deeper...

[@adamakaru2683]

AMAZIN and I could agreed with you more Mr, A Collins. Yes Ancient Alliance is real thank you.

[@goldenoriolesilverbirch8220]

Something extraordinary was certainly going on. The sites had profound meaning, and this seems a plausible attempt at making sense of it.

[@mariansmith7694]

Snake pit rumor likely kept some people out.

[@neddyladdy]

Is this greater than any find still to come in the next 77 years. A brave claim indeed.

[@alexanderfahr2658]

The pillars look like a tuning fork.

[@deanharris9662]

5:51 yes brother underneath is more important???

[@raywhitehead730]

The circular dwellings, remind me of the American Indian Mandan tribes lodges. Bigger lodges were used in a ceremony where a whole in the roof was used to hoist men up to hang in an initiation ceremony.

[@likklej8]

Good universe vibrations venue for your talk

[@Quixpeed]

Hi there, I have some observations i would like to suggest here: The Serpent with the human head is probably a representation of the Serpent from the Adam and Eve story, which is Satan as he approached in a shape shifting form or actually haunted a serpent (Snake) and talked to Adam and Eve in the known story and its repercussions !!!. The face on that Serpent depiction looks exactly like how the in middle eastern cultures depict Satan face is. The Danab constellation analogy is related to the tail, the word Danab "Thanab - TH pronounced as THe" means literally "TAIL" in Arabic language, i believe its another reference to the Serpent or Snake, i mean what if for them it was a representation of a snake instead of a Swan (minus the wings for sure), the constellation titled Cygnus, because the whole shape of the Cygnus bird (the Swan), and that star represents its tail is the Danab. The Vulture is probably a Phoenix, why !!! because the Phoenix in greek mythology is known that it does resurrect from the ashes and comes back from death to live eternally, according to Greek mythology. IMO, its another representation of the afterlife, as the dead person is resurrected from ashes back to life. I can also assume that this might as well be a Satanic cabal temple of sorts, the clear admiration of the Serpent is a hint to that. Another scope of observation on this site, the whole area (Northern Mesopotamia) was known to be resided by the people of the prophet Echelon (Idris), those people are called the Sabians, they were monotheistic in their faith identical to Muslims, but the interesting thing about them is that they prayed towards the north star Polaris, they worshiped the same Lord of Muslims and Israelite Allah or Elohim, but instead of pointing towards Mecca or Jerusalem in their prayers, they were commanded to point to Polaris, and until this day they still point to Polaris in their prayers, also there is a small community of them still resides northern parts of Iraq. BTW, if anyone needs to learn about old names and sciences, cosmos in particular, look up their ancient names and its meaning, ancient Arabs have done a lot of pioneering research into the cosmos and they simply derived some of the names or knowledge from the ancient people. I hope this info is somewhat fruitful for this topic. Its just what came to my mind listening to Andrew, so if anyone came something out of it, please comment and enlighten me !!

[@vestaarcadia]

It's a clock, probably signifying when different sections of the ritual are to take place. Aligning when each of the constellations are in their respective parts of the sky.

[@trendtalklive]

Karahantepe means Black Settlement Hill. Göbeklitepe means Stomach Hill, not 'pot belly'. Keçetepe means Goat Hill. The Turkish suffix 'li' is like 'ly' in English. When I see the stone 'thrones' it reminds me of the stone and cement manger type structures used today on small farms for holding goats and sheep, especially to fatten up for sacrifice. The snake is associated with Satan or Lucifer. Paul Wallis (Echoes of Eden) gives a great explanation about who the gods actually are.

[@rodcoombes8711]

The Kurdish name ( Kurdish region) means Black Night, the Turkish authorities did not allow them to use that name for political reasons, so kept ‘pot belly hill’.

[@louiscervantez1639]

Speechless!

[@zoeteco9238]

I see structure AB as a sperm with a tail, (it just seems so obvious to me) and it is entering the egg (enclosure D). AA would then be the womb. So if this was the Nephilim or Annanaki, they were known to experiment with hybridization through genetic manipulation. Maybe that's what these structures represent?????

[@okgroomer1966]

I immediately saw that too

[@loril.mangold8160]

And in 2012 the alignment of the milky way again, it records a time, when we start coming into a Cold period, our planet moving farther away from the Sun

[@carminedipietro1151]

Wow 👌

[@caveman1334]

Lovely Thank you 😊 💓

[@walt3223]

Ophiuchus is not a part, nor will it ever be, of the Zodiac. The Zodiac is internal, the sky within, if you like. Claudius Ptolemy sat down his books, the one that the Arabs call the Almagest and the other is the Tetrabiblos. By the way, Ophiuchus is a Greek/ Roman thing with its own meaning outside of the Zodiac. Now as for the galaxy center, it moves with the rotation of the Earth, and during 9000 BC it was visible at 5 in the morning during the winter solstice and not at noon on the summer solstice.

[@markculp6126]

When I see drone images from above showing the entirety of what is excavated, it looks like a stock yard. Perhaps this was their way of protecting the animals that fed the people living in the nearby underground cities from the disaster that drove the people underground. The structures likely had roofs to protect the animals. I know if I were driven to live underground, I’d want my cows pooping above ground.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Sagittarius 🏹 Having a "Studied Astrology" and *Being a Sagittarius ♐ Sun, "Galactic Center" us located appx 27° Sagittarius* and I'm thinking that was the Focal Point. ... and they may have been interested in "Jupiter" Rulership Signs (♐ and ♓) *Sagittarius defines Higher Education, Justice, Law, Guru, Luck, Benefic Energies, Evolving, Expansion, Long Distance Travel, Religion, etc.*

[@ShainCaldwell]

You mentioned an enclosure, with a 50 minute delay. What if AD was covered around the sides with a roof structure similar to a football stadium leaving the center open to sunlight. Because of the roof would that account for the 50 minute time delay? I seriously don't know, just playing with the puzzle pieces.

[@loisraymcinnis6006]

I perceive that what's up their are maps to what's down here on a bigger Earth beyond the ice walls which are three not one. And with gates. One sky and one Land beneath so all people's eyes see the same skies.

[@TWOCOWS1]

Please use the name Mirzan in honor of the historic local name and tradition. This is a part of the "Mirazan Culture", that includes Karahan, Buncuklu and Gobekli, among others, dating back to 13,000-9,000 years ago. The local Kurdish name. Mirazan which means "miracle maker", a very suitable name by the local people for these sites (instead of the comical "Gobekli=pot belly in official Turkish" that is given to them by the state politicians in that modern country).

[@sean6948]

I'm really going to try and make this tour next year it's my ultimate dream

[@staciebrunnett4082]

Me too Sean, me too lol

[@westpacificmarketanalytics2384]

To me it all looks to revolve around the ritual of water.......