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This paper endeavors to unravel the symbolic significance embedded in the depictions associated with the limestone bench relief featuring intricate representations of both animal and human figures, situated within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B archaeological site in Sayburc. Drawing from my extensive body of work, including 'The Shaman Phallus,' 'The Origins of the Roman god ‘Janus’ at Göbekli Tepe,' 'Göbekli Tepe: The ‘Vulture Stone’s’ Sister Stone Pillar 33 and the Zarzian Snake Shamans of Anatolia,' and 'The Shamanic Chronicles Unveiling Cosmic Mysteries and Rituals at Göbekli Tepe,' I contextualize the enigmatic representations found at this neolithic site. These symbols, intricately etched into the limestone bench, raise questions about the shamanic spiritual beliefs and rivalries, rituals, and cosmology of the ancient populace responsible for Göbekli Tepe’s creation.
The scholarly paper “Shamanic Chronicles: The Convergence of Heaven and Earth Unveiled through the Symbology of Göbekli Tepe” delves into the intricate history of this ancient site. The author, Mark Black, explores the emergence of distinct waves of Zarzian tribes and their connection to shamanic practices. These tribes, originating from the Zagros Mountain range, left their mark at pivotal Neolithic sites, including Zawi Chemi Shanidar village and Shanidar Cave. By tracing their migration routes, the paper sheds light on their progression from the Zagros region to Anatolia, ultimately settling in key locations such as Kortik Tepe, Tell Qaramel, Göbekli Tepe, and Hallam Cemi. Göbekli Tepe, often hailed as the world’s oldest stone temple, stands atop a mountain ridge in southeast Turkey. Inhabited from approximately 9500 to 8000 BCE during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, this site is renowned for its massive circular structures adorned with intricately carved T-shaped pillars. These megaliths provide rare insights into prehistoric religion and iconography. The paper explores the emergence of Zarzian tribes, their shamanic practices, and their impact on Göbekli Tepe’s complex history. Notably, the site features two distinct shamanic clans represented by centrally positioned T-shaped pillars: Pillar No. 18 symbolizes the bull (male), while Pillar No. 31 personifies the fox (female). The symbolism of the snake, embodied by these ancestral shamans, adds further intrigue to this ancient sanctuary.
In this document I will outline a connection between the elite Zarzian shamanic priests and their subjects the Natufians as those who built Gobekli Tepe. By mapping the origins of an ancient obsidian trade in the Anatolian and the Levant. A subservient relation that compelled the Zarzians from their Neolithic site at Shanidar cave and Zawi Chemi; to travel down the Batman River to Kortik Tepe and El Qaramel. From Kortik Tepe, Zarzian shamanic priests will produce the first shamanic priesthood and begin to initiate both Natufian and Zarzian initiates into their shamanic religion at Gobekli Tepe. At Kortik Tepe, I will then demonstrate that Zarzian shamanic priests exclusively manufactured the ritual paraphernalia I have called a 'Shaman Phallus' and bags found on the 'Vulture Stone'; and used at Gobekli Tepe. This Neolithic relationship has also revealed the contents of the (3) bags and their power animals etched into the 'Vulture Stone'; which are a Bird, Goat, Turtle and lastly a Bee. A Bee cult that disintegrates the Zarzian and Natufian's relationship; and effectuates the demise of Gobekli Tepe. Furthermore, this paper will connect Kortik Tepe's Zarzian shamanic priests to the winged deities the Apkallus, and the Natufians "fisher-tortoisemen" to Oannes, discuss the triangle pattern found by an Israeli archeologist at Gobekli Tepe, skull cults, a bone plaquette indicating a ritual performed at Gobekli Tepe and much, much more.
Uncovering the contents of the three bags and their power animals etched into the ‘Vulture Stone’: By tracing the Zarzian and Natufian’s relationship that effectuated the construction and demise of Gobekli Tepe.
Uncovering the contents of the three bags and their power animals etched into the ‘Vulture Stone’: By tracing the Zarzian and Natufian’s relationship that effectuated the construction and demise of Gobekli Tepe.2020 •
This paper represents the only document that outlines the connection between the elite Zarzian shamanic priests and their subjects the Natufians as those who constructed Gobekli Tepe. These findings were accomplished by mapping the origins of an ancient obsidian and chlorite trade in the Anatolians and the Levant, which points to a Zarzian elitism and a Natufian subservient relationship between the two cultures. A relationship that compelled the Zarzians from their Neolithic site at Shanidar cave and Zawi Chemi to travel down the Batman river to establish Kortik Tepe and establish an outpost at El Qaramel that I have designed as Gobekli Tepe I. After Gobekli Tepe I was destroyed at El Qaramel by fire, Zarzian shamanic priests from Kortik Tepe founded what I have designated as Gobekli Tepe II near Sanliurfa, Turkey. From where they would establish the first shamanic priesthood and begin to initiate both Natufian and Zarzian initiates into their a Zarzian shamanic religion at Gobekli Tepe. At Kortik Tepe, I then demonstrate through academic papers that Zarzian shamanic priests exclusively manufactured the ritual paraphernalia I have called chlorite ‘Shaman Phalluses’ and the bags found on the ‘Vulture Stone’ that were used at Gobekli Tepe. This Neolithic relationship has also revealed for the first time the contents of the (3) bags and their power animals etched into the ‘Vulture Stone’; which are a Bird, Goat, Turtle and lastly a Bee. A Bee cult that disintegrates the Zarzian and Natufian’s relationship; and effectuates the demise of Gobekli Tepe. Furthermore, this paper will be the first to connect Kortik Tepe’s Zarzian shamanic priests to the winged deities the Apkallus, and the Natufians “fisher-tortoisemen” to the Oannes, discuss the triangle pattern found by an Israeli archeologist at Gobekli Tepe, skull cults, a bone plaquette indicating a ritual performed with a ‘Shaman Phallus’ at Gobekli Tepe and much, much more.
Van Yüzüncü Yıl University the Journal of Social Sciences Institute
Self-Revelation: An Origin Myth Interpretation of the Göbekli Tepe Culture (An Alternative Perspective on Anthropomorphic Themes)2023 •
The humans of the Göbekli Tepe Neolithic culture of the Upper Euphrates Basin left behind long-term settlements with surprising monumental structures and a rich set of symbolism. This study puts the various symbolic themes of this culture to its center, and attempts to offer a reasonable interpretation of how the people of this culture and period constructed a “reality” about themselves. When the themes of human head and phallus are positioned at the center of the interpretations of this period’s symbolism, it is possible to claim that the Neolithic people conceptualized/explained themselves through an complex mythological narrative. This paper also hopes to contribute to the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, sociology and history of religions by asserting that the T-shaped pillars of the Göbekli Tepe Culture are the phalli of the ancestors representing these ancestors’ remaining fragment/aspect on “the world,” and thus, are the material representations of the “now” and “this world,” rather than mythological ancestors, supernatural beings or gods. In this context, it is possible to relate the T-shaped pillars with ancestor cult, and also an important part of the anthropomorphic statues and reliefs with the initiation rites in which a person gains status in society. One of the biggest goals of this study is to begin a discussion about what can be the main mythological narrative of this culture.
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MYTH: DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPE’S ICONOGRAPHY2020 •
Water is one of the archetypal elements of all mythologies, to mention only the flood myth which is one of humankind’s most widespread myths. The Epic of Gilgamesh’s depiction (3rd millennium B.C.) of a catastrophic event which occurred in Western Asia, is considered to have been one of the earliest versions of the Biblical flood, describing a calamitous inundation, probably in relation with the current overflows of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, that was preserved in the memory of the local populations. A reference to these disastrous inundations seems to have been recorded in the iconography of Göbekli Tepe’s enclosures, dated the 12th millennium B.C. . Situated in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent in Upper Mesopotamia, near the Balich River, a tributary of the Euphrates, Göbekli Tepe represents one of the largest early PPN sites in the region (Çelik 2016: 361). The irregularity of the Tigris-Euphrates river system floods occurring in spring, which are recorded in the mythology of Mesopotamia (Fiala 2005: 431) could not have passed unnoticed in the early local mythologies either. An eloquent example could be the bas-reliefs of Enclosure D at Göbekli Tepe, which record an event similar to the one described in the Gilgamesh flood myth, illustrating with zoomorphic images the different stages of a flood. A zoo-semiotic analysis of the iconography of the bas-reliefs scenes carved on the T-shaped stone pillars of the monument reveals diverse types of flooded landscapes (Gheorghiu 2015), that can be perceived as components of a visual story about a flood. By comparing the visual story at Göbekli Tepe with parts of The Epic of Gilgamesh, one can imagine the complexity of the mythology of the late epi-Palaeolithic – early pre-pottery Neolithic populations of Western Asia.
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