Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the

Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World's Cosmologies

Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world

â‚¬ Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre-Vedic cult in India to cosmological myths and traditions in Africa, Egypt, Tibet, and China

â‚¬ Discusses how carved animal images at Gobekli Tepe relate to stages of creation and provide an archaic foundation for symbolic written language

â‚¬ Defines how classical elements of ancient Egyptian myth and religion characterize an archaic cosmological tradition that links ancestrally back to Gobekli Tepe

How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies? Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilizations of ancient Egypt, India, Tibet, and China share sacred words and symbols? Revealing the existence of a long-forgotten primal culture and the worldâ‚¬s first center of higher learning, Laird Scranton shows how the sophisticated complex at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is the definitive point of origin from which all the great civilizations of the past inherited their cosmology, esoteric teachings, and civilizing skills, such as agriculture, metallurgy, and stone masonry, fully developed.

Scranton explains how the carved images on Gobekli Tepeâ‚¬s stone pillars were the precursors to the sacred symbols of the Dogon, Egyptians, Tibetans, and Chinese as well as the matriarchal Sakti cult of ancient Iran and India. He identifies Gobekli Tepe as a remote mountain sanctuary of higher knowledge alluded to in Sakti myth, named like an important temple in Egypt, and defined in ancient Buddhist tradition as Vulture Peak. Scranton reveals how Gobekli Tepeâ‚¬s enigmatic â‚¬Å“Hâ‚¬Â carvings and animal symbolism, symbolic of stages of creation, was presented as a kind of prototype of written language accessible to the hunter-gathers who inhabited the region. He shows how the myths and deities of many ancient cultures are connected linguistically, extending even to the name of Gobekli Tepe and the Egyptian concept of Zep Tepi, the mythical age of the â‚¬Å“First Time.â‚¬Â

Identifying Gobekli Tepe not only as the first university but also as the first temple, perhaps built as a civilizing exercise, Scranton definitively places this enigmatic archaeological site at the point of origin of civilization, religion, and ancient science.
Country USA
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ReleaseDate 2015-02-22
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Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Inner Traditions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	FLPK9781620554449
ReleaseDate	2015-02-22
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781620554449

Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World's Cosmologies

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