I have a question regarding Gobekli Tepe and mentions of it in Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus' mentions of the Pillars of Seth, constructed after the flood by the to pass the knowledge of astronomy and mathematics to future generations by the sons of Noah, remind me of some of the theories regarding Gobekli Tepe.
This was possibly the place were the survivors of this ancient advanced civilization tried to pass on their knowledge to the hunter gatherers through myth and symbols. This could be done through astronomical alignments and animal symbols to tell a story.
Josephus' narrative of the history of the Jews was based on a 3000 year old Torah that does not exist today. The oldest Torahs we have physically are relatively recent.
A quote from Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2, 68-71:
"...Now this Seth...did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues.... They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day."
What are everyone's thoughts on this possibility?
This was possibly the place were the survivors of this ancient advanced civilization tried to pass on their knowledge to the hunter gatherers through myth and symbols. This could be done through astronomical alignments and animal symbols to tell a story.
Josephus' narrative of the history of the Jews was based on a 3000 year old Torah that does not exist today. The oldest Torahs we have physically are relatively recent.
A quote from Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 2, 68-71:
"...Now this Seth...did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues.... They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars; the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day."
What are everyone's thoughts on this possibility?
