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  • By: Andrew Collins
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  • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Gobekli Tepe

By: Andrew Collins
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Summary

Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths - built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons - show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched until the rise of the great civilizations of the ancient world, Sumer, Egypt, and Babylon.

Chronicling his travels to Göbekli Tepe and surrounding sites, Andrew Collins details the layout, architecture, and exquisite relief carvings of ice age animals and human forms found at this 12,000-year-old megalithic complex, now recognized as the oldest stone architecture in the world. He explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm - the Great Flood in the Bible - and explains how it served as a gateway and map to the sky-world, the place of first creation, reached via a bright star in the constellation of Cygnus. He reveals those behind its construction as the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian tradition.

Unveiling Göbekli Tepe's foundational role in the rise of civilization, Collins shows how it is connected to humanity's creation in the Garden of Eden and the secrets Adam passed to his son Seth, the founder of an angelic race called the Sethites. In his search for Adam's legendary Cave of Treasures, the author discovers the Garden of Eden and the remains of the Tree of Life - in the same sacred region where Göbekli Tepe is being uncovered today.

©2014 Andrew Collins (P)2018 Tantor

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What's with the resting place of the Ark?

Why does the author keep discussing the mythology of Adam and Eve without once saying “this of course is just a myth, there were lots of other humans around at the time, in fact several million over all the major continents”?
Why is the author so obsessed with finding the site of the garden of Eden?
If it is a mythical place then it was never real. If it was real then what was it? The author keeps suggesting that it is a place where there were no food chains, where lions lay down with lambs etc. Really? It is 2019 surely there are no educated people who actually believe that obligate carnivores would live peacefully with their prey? What do the lions eat? The bible is clear that Adam lived to 700 years, surely people don’t actually believe this stuff as literally true? Why are people, in 2019, talking about magic? Magic trees which secrete an oil which stops or reverses aging?
I just cannot understand what the author is saying, why does he keep using the term miraculous?
I laughed when he wrote that some bloke went to Jerusalem and miraculously found a bit of the true cross apparently made of the same wood as the magic tree.
The central idea which he could have put over in an hour, not a dozen, is that there were a group of possible human/Neanderthal hybrids that had some special knowledge and somehow “controlled” an early society to build structures such as Gobekli Tepe. However, the question is why a super-knowledgeable culture would encourage Neolithic peoples to waste their life putting up endless carved stones with animal pictures as some way of preventing another comet strike. Clearly they were not that advanced if they thought carving pictures of foxes and wolves would somehow stop a comet strike. I cannot understand how they could possibly predict comet returns (other than a short period one such as Halley) without using a heliocentric model. There is not a scrap of evidence that humans considered heliocentricity until the last millennium.
I am comfortable that Noah’s flood may well be a myth memory of something such as the flooding of the Black sea basin at the end of the last ice age. Why does the author spoil this interesting speculation by then discussing the resting place of the Ark? The atmosphere never holds more than 5cm of rainfall worldwide. It is puerile, childish, and frankly offensive to rational people to talk about the resting place of the Ark, this would, of course, mean that sea level suddenly rose by over a km in less than a year without any clear and obvious geological trace and causing the extinction of every land and fresh water animal on the Earth. Good luck with getting Kiwis to New Zealand in 9000BCE.
Just so tiresome! Why does the author use BC and AD when everyone is now using BCE and CE?
I was expecting the author to start bible-bashing at any moment but instead he just fizzled out as if he will tell us more amazing secrets in his next book.
If he is going to write another tedious book please could he do everyone a favour and put his cards on the table in the first chapter, I still do not know whether he regards biblical myths as stories based on real scientifically-explainable events or thinks magic and miracles are actually a thing.

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Fanciful notions

This is very heavy going. Mediocre narrating coupled with a definite idiosyncratic style of writing do not make for a relaxing read. add in the fact there is actually little about gobekli tepe (though I will admit to some interesting details about prehistoric culture, and some interesting reflection on mythology - then conflated, again meaning the power of what is being suggested is lost) and a *lot* of speculation. all together what could have been riveting became a fight with myself to make it to the very anti-climactic ending.

then, to top it all off the author talks about the "fanciful notion" of ancient astronaut theory (p278 on the kindle mobile app). considering 37 appearances on the long-running series ancient aliens (from 2014 when this book was written, to 2020 - however in total he has 52 episodes under his belt!) this sounds just a little like hypocrisy. you can't have it both ways Andrew.

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Fantastic listen.

Mind blowing views on humanities evolution through history and religion. Well written and worthy of your time to listen.

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Groundbreaking but mispronounced

This is a groundbreaking book detailing the Earth changing discovery of the oldest known temple on the planet. A true work of art and Andrew Collins should be hugely commended for it.
But why on Earth is it narrated by a man that mispronounces the direct topic of the book?! It's Göbekli Tepe (tep-ay) not teper!
12 hours of constant mispronounciation, if you can get past that, this a must read.

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Too old testement based

The author writes from a very religious perspective. Too many logical leaps based on this perspective. Not for me.

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Not what’s it’s sold to be

As many other reviewers, I went into this book thinking I will be getting 10+ hours of theories about Gobekli Teppe but I unfortunately it is not.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty interesting research and theories that sort of try to link the genesis of Gobekli Teppe and other things together but it’s too confusing at times to follow which strand leads where.

It’s a good book. Interesting. But only 1/3 at best is related specifically to Gobekli Teppe itself.

Narration is a bit dull, 3/5 but then it’s not always easy to narrate a book like this.

All in all, a slow going but an interesting enough listen. If this was a physical read I probably would have given up earlier but I persevered. And it was 3/5. Without a substantial conclusion though so will need to keep digging for more.

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Ok, but not what I thought

I went into this book thinking the story around Gobekli Tepe would be expanded - but in reality Collins looks for another excuse to talk about his musings on the Bible and locations therein.

Narration is good and it’s nice to hear an accent other than US or British.

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Wonderful eye opener & magical

Outstanding, mind blowing and truly magical. This world we live in is madness, the ancients who built Gobekli Tepe left us clues to a wholistic life in tune with nature and ourselves, Thank you for this beautiful book 🙏🌸💖

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Not that impressed

Whilst this book has some interesting story line there isn’t that much extra about Gobekli Tepe itself

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waste of time

if you want to know anything about gobekli tepe don't bother listening to this. nothing to.hear here

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