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Gobekli Tepe
- Genesis of the Gods: The Temple of the Watchers and the Discovery of Eden
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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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.
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- Richard Bundy
- 01-05-22
An interesting story
The first half of the book was interesting because it was fact based. The author then went on an imaginary didactic preach about an elite tribe from Europe influencing the construction as if it were a singular phenomenon.
Stone structures exist near the location of Gobekli Tepe that predate the site, showing a progression of construction over along period of time.
We remain curious about the origin and mystery of the ancient world, but by placing speculation in a book doesn’t make it fact.
There are as many truths to the past as there are people who write them.
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- Scott
- 18-07-19
Great Gobekli Tepe research.
Some of the best ideas around on what Gobekli Tepe was used for and by who.
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- Tom
- 17-06-20
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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- Agvas
- 04-06-23
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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- Paul Gordon
- 01-02-21
Mind Food
This fascinating book, had me hooked., i was absorbed from the start and my mind feels like its been wrestling with some mad MMA grappler
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- The Crack In Space
- 08-03-23
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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- Mr Sharrocks
- 03-10-18
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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- Rob
- 24-08-19
Way to names
Fascinating subject but struggling to finish it. Very difficult to keep track of all the names.
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- jonathan
- 22-08-19
About to do my third listen to this. Fantastic!
This is great, just finished my second listen and about to go for a third. really brilliant work!
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- Unna Windweaver
- 07-02-23
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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