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Andrew Collins is a historian and journalist who has devoted over four decades of his life to the study of ancient civilizations, much of it among the enigmatic T-shaped pillars that dot the stone hills of the Turkish highlands. He believes that Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are more than ceremonial sites of hunter-gatherers—he takes these monuments to be the remnants of a foundational proto-culture that authored the earliest versions of the myths and narratives found in the Bible, Torah, and Qur’an. He walks us through why he believes that the imagery carved into the stones of Karahan Tepe represents humanity’s first abstract engagement with the spiritual realm, how the legends developed were likely the product of the peoples the Sumerians called the Annunaki, and the pivotal role the serpent symbol plays in linking the land of the living to the cosmic spheres.
DEMYSTICON 2025 ANNUAL MEETING IN PORTUGAL!!!
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Andrew Collins is a historian and journalist who has devoted over four decades of his life to the study of ancient civilizations, much of it among the enigmatic T-shaped pillars that dot the stone hills of the Turkish highlands. He believes that Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe are more than ceremonial sites of hunter-gatherers—he takes these monuments to be the remnants of a foundational proto-culture that authored the earliest versions of the myths and narratives found in the Bible, Torah, and Qur’an. He walks us through why he believes that the imagery carved into the stones of Karahan Tepe represents humanity’s first abstract engagement with the spiritual realm, how the legends developed were likely the product of the peoples the Sumerians called the Annunaki, and the pivotal role the serpent symbol plays in linking the land of the living to the cosmic spheres.
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