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The discovery at Gobekli Tepe of a temple "older than civilization" raises important questions about the current patriarchal historical timeline.

The Lessons of Gobekli TepeThe World's Oldest Temple Gobekli Tepe, the oldest Temple (or built structure) so far known on earth, raises important questions that lay bare the gratuitous assumptions of the patriarchal historical narrative.Feb 2010: Newsweek magazine, writing from the standard late-patriarchal point of view, summarizes a conundrum presented to the progressist-patriarchal establishment by the Gobekli Tepe Temple in what is now Turkey:Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization.What is most remarkable about this account is its implicit faith in the framework of the modern patriarchal narrative of history, even when one of its central pillars is shown to be an illusion.The article continues:The new discoveries are finally beginning to reshape the slow-moving consensus of archeology. Gobekli Tepe is "unbelievably big and amazing, at a ridiculously early date," according to Ian Hodder, director of Stanford's archeology program. Enthusing over the "huge great stones and fantastic, highly refined art" at Gobekli Tepe, Hodder—who has spent decades on rival Neolithic sites—says: "Many people think that it changes everything . . . It overturns the whole apple cart. All our theories were wrong." And yet what astonishes a neutral observer (one who does not take the current patriarchal/ progressist narrative as read) is how many theories remain rather absurdly unquestioned. And yet what astonishes a neutral observer (one who does not take the current patriarchal/progressist narrative as read) is how many theories remain rather absurdly unquestioned. We are asked to believe that this temple, with its carved and polished circles of stone, with terrazzo flooring and double benches, was the first structure made by humans and was made by people devoid of any other civilization.Why would such a complex and elaborate structure be the first ever built just because it is the earliest so far found? The faith that the current state of patriarchal Western knowledge represents the boundaries of all knowledge is almost touchingly childlike.Before this structure was found, it would have been deemed impossible. Now that it is found, all the assumptions that made it "impossible" are faithfully retained. Somehow, out of nowhere, came this vast and complex project.The implications of the temple, even on this hypothesis, are fascinatingSchmidt's thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that brought mankind together in the very first urban conglomerations. The need to build and maintain this temple, he says, drove the builders to seek stable food sources, like grains and animals that could be domesticated, and then to settle down to guard their new way of life. The temple begat the city.Now while we would dispute the "up from the apes" narrative implied here, the substance is correct. Maid is a fundamentally spiritual being. Her spiritual essence comes first. Her physical manifestation is only a secondary result of that. Similarly, her civilizations are fundamentally outgrowths of her spiritual existence, not of an "animal need to survive".Certainly, in the very profoundest sense, the Temple begat the city, just as the spirit begat the body.A blogger summarizes the "scientific" narrative:Gobekli Tepe is thus the oldest such site in the world, by a mind-numbing margin. It is so old that it predates settled human life. It is pre-pottery, pre-writing, pre-everything. Gobekli Tepe hails from a part of human history that is unimaginably distant, right back in our hunter-gatherer past.The trouble with this is – if "we" were unaware of a structure of this age and complexity a short time ago, how can "we" be so sure there was no pottery or writing this long ago or longer? And how can "we" be sure "our" assumptions about "hunter-gatherers" have any real validity? The traditional view of history would place this Temple in the later Dvpara Yuga or Age of Bronze. According to traditional history, maid, originally a purely spiritual being, and later one who manipulated material things by the power of the spirit was finally reduced to a creature who (mostly) had to interact with matter by purely physical means.While this view of maid is dismissed by the modern "scientific outlook", what is actually more consistent with the facts of Gobekli Tepe? That maid, on her way "down" from a higher state created this huge and complex serie...

Lessons of Gobekli Tepe - the earliest known temple on earth