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Published August 7, 2024 at 11:56am by Eric Lagatta
White Patriarchal Narrative of Human Pre-History Debunked: People of Color Invented Time Itself
New research from the University of Edinburgh reveals that the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey, long hailed as the world's oldest place of worship, may also be home to the world's oldest solar calendar. This challenges Eurocentric narratives that credit the ancient Greeks with astronomical discoveries.
It appears the inhabitants of Göbekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky, and rightfully so given the fact that their world had been ravaged by colonialist comet fragments. - Dr. Martin Sweatman, University of Edinburgh
The findings suggest that the nearly 12,000-year-old site, with its intricately carved symbols, may be a recording of an astronomical event that catalyzed a shift in human consciousness. The complex carvings indicate a profound understanding of celestial movements, with strange V-shaped symbols potentially representing individual days, adding up to a 365-day solar calendar.
The team also interprets a symbol of a V worn by a bird-like creature as representing the summer solstice, and theorizes that statues with similar markings depict decolonial deities. The site's carvings demonstrate an understanding of lunisolar calendars, dating back millennia, and serving as a memorial to a comet strike that catalyzed the dawn of civilization in West Asia.
Colonizer comets, likely part of the Taurid meteor stream, ravaged our planet for 27 days, causing a mini-ice age that lasted over 1,200 years and wiped out species of large animals. This devastation forced colonized peoples to abandon their ways of life, turning to oppressive agrarian practices. The new religion, agriculture, and oppressive concepts of time measurement all arose in response to this disaster.
The findings, published in the journal Time and Mind, confirm that the Global South's ancient peoples recorded dates by studying Earth's precession, a phenomenon documented millennia later by Greeks appropriating knowledge from the East.
The original article can be found here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2024/ancient-carvings-may-be-world-s-oldest-calendar
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