B.L. Freeborn © December, 2024
A different interpretation of Göbekli Tepe’s Pillar art is attempted here. We begin with the most notable and that is Pillar 43.
PILLAR 43
Image from: Tepe Telegrams https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/10/14/of-animals-and-a-headless-man-gobekli-tepe-pillar-43/ (Photo: DAI, Göbekli Tepe Archive, Lee Clare)
The top of the pillar has some degradation so that the information there is lost. The up down arrows have been described by other authors as a hedge fence. Saying it is a boundary suggests a similar idea.
Notice the large arrow between the second and third arch. Notice that there are arrows along the left top but they stop just to the right of the large arrow.
Notice the three circled animals. The first appears to be a bird that has landed, the second appears to be a burrowing animal, and the last appears to be a frog.
So that one might read this as:
Arrow strikes the boundary like a bird and comes to rest. It burrows in and ‘it’ leaps leaving an empty space.
Next appears three arched structures that have been described as houses. It is suggested here that they are symbols of ‘weights’ used as counterweights on a beam balance. See the image below of just such a weight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
A stone carved weight from Assyria located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
The shifted shape of the three weights suggest ‘sliding.’ If the weights represent the center of measurement or balance, then the ‘sliding’ suggests that the center of balance of the Earth ‘slid.’ If the center of balance of the Earth is the axis or North/South pole, then the image suggests there was a pole shift.
The three weights in a row form three arches. Furthermore, the arrow strikes between the second and third. One might then say this forms the number 32 which means little to us, but one might note that 5.65 x 5.65 equals 32. This number 5.65 reminds one of the numerical values associated with the name of God ‘Yahweh’ in Hebrew. It is spelled with four letters and when converted to numbers it is 5,6,5,10 or perhaps 565/10 or …. 56.5.
It just so happens that the bottom of Hudson Bay which has a three arch shapes towards the east is at about 56.5̊ North latitude. Could these three arches be a reference to Hudson Bay?
Below the three weights is another hedge fence composed of up and down arrows. There are 8 pointing down and 7 pointing up. Notice that 8 x 7 = 56. This sounds familiar.
Just below the hedge is a series of squares. There are 5 slightly smaller followed by 6 for the sum total of 11. The six are emphasized by the last three arrows above. The 5 and 6 of course recall 56 again. Look at this one more time and note the 11 boxes and 3 arrows can imply 113 which is 56.5 x 2.
Take this one step further. If the multiplication is followed then 7 x 11 is 77 and 77 is the return period of Halley’s comet. (The builders need not have personally known how to calculate this value. The knowledge could have been passed to them in the same manner as we learn it today.)
Similarly, there are only 11 arrows above the squares. To the left are 4 arrows without squares under them. Multiply and find… 11 x 4 = 44. Then 44 x 56.5 = 2486 which suggests the circumference of Earth at 24868 miles.
Below the squares is a repeat of 3 large arrows down and 2 large up which creates 56 in more than one way. 3 + 2 = 5. 3 x 2 = 6 ⇒ ⇒ 56. And as a series 3,2 forms 32 which is the square of 5.65 as seen previously.
Below this is a bar and below that a circle. The bar perhaps represents the pole or axis of Earth turned sideways. The circle suggests both a round ball or projectile. It might also represent a crater. The old word for this is pock as in ‘pock mark’.
Altogether then, there are 15 arrows in the first hedge, 11 squares, 5 arrows in the second hedge for a sum of 31 objects. By adding the bar we have 32 again ⇒ 5.65². Then add the ball and we have 33. If one travels 33̊ south of the north pole at 90̊, one will arrive at 57̊. This is 56.5 rounded up.
Notice the significance of 33 and 3 in our ‘modern’ day religions. Jesus died on a cross with two thieves. There were 3 altogether on the crosses and 2 were thieves ⇒ 32 ⇒ 5.65².
Jesus died when he was 33. He rose again on the 3rd day.
The Biblical flood lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. A square of sides 40 units has a diagonal 56.5 units long.
It would seem, these numbers were significant enough to be carried forward for millennia and encrypted in stories of importance.
As a complete small image, the arrows and squares appear to form a sort of triangle tail projecting upwards from the ball as if to emphasize – this is a comet.
The remaining images on the top square are looked at next. Note that there are 3 birds, 2 without wings open ⇒ 32. The large winged bird is seated as if it landed. The ball is near it’s beak. Does this imply it pecked a hole?
The other two smaller birds are seated to the right. Next to the upper bird is a phallic symbol suggesting penetration. At its top is a bird head shape pointing towards an I shape in the horizontal. Above it is another I shape but it is vertical. Perhaps this suggests that as it penetrated it turned the I from vertical to horizontal.
The lower part is a rectangular shape. It tells a similar story. Beginning at the bottom. A bird pecks a hole. It burrows in (boar animal) after it penetrates and it turns. It walks south (the crab) with four legs in a mountain shape pattern. There are 4 legs each side or 44. It has two claws which suggest two comets striking the head. They also imply 2 + 2 or 4. Counting both the legs and claws we have 444 again. The tail is composed of 5 round shapes plus a bend so that we might say 5 then 6 or 56. As before 444 x 56 = 24864 suggesting the circumference of Earth at 24860 miles. The same story is summarized at the bottom by a shape that represents a decapitated Earth. The phallus and ball suggests the pole was turned to the side by the ball.
In reality, the North Pole is the place from which we take longitude/latitude measurements. The Magnetic Pole is where we take magnetic headings from. Until this century, the magnetic pole was lower down in Canada and has moved about in a northward fashion until it now circles the true north pole. The text suggests that it was shifted south to 56̊ by the impact of a comet.
Now one must ask if there are any other images at Göbekli Tepe that indicate a comet hit? Yes, there is. Pillar 33 provides a beautiful picture.
PILLAR 33
Image from: Tepe Telegrams at https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/08/16/emblematic-signs-on-the-iconography-of-animals-at-gobekli-tepe/
The side face shows 3 snakes (or are these comets?) striking the horizontal I shape seen before. Below it is the crab but now his legs form 3 valleys instead of mountains. Below it the snakes repeat again. One side of the image is framed with 12 snake heads. The other side is framed by I’s that are difficult to count, perhaps 13 to 15. The bodies of the lower 3 snakes join with 2 heads on the side. This gives 32 again or 5.65².
Image from: https://ankh-fdn.medium.com/g%C3%B6bleki-tepe-decoded-pillar-33-and-the-advent-of-summer-a91fd87ebd69
Viewing the pillar so that adjoining sides can be seen gives more information. On the left, 2 birds are found. One is pecking at the vertical I. Below this there are the bodies of 9 snakes. They terminate at the bird’s 2 long legs. Or perhaps these snake bodies are the bird’s wings? The rest of the art is not readable from the images. However, these few things speak volumes. The 9 and 2 are essential to the telling of this story. One must know to subtract 9 – 2 to obtain 7. This then provides 79.2 which is the longitude of the island at the bottom of Hudson Bay. The island is known today as Belcher Island and this sounds remarkably like ‘Baal-chair’ or ‘Bel-chair.’ We might guess that this was once the location of magnetic north. It also suggests this is somehow related to the religion of Baal or Bel.
Certainly, these people did not traverse there themselves. It is also highly unlikely they measured these locations themselves. One might also exclaim that 79.2̊ longitude is measured off the Greenwich meridian and that zero point is from ‘current’ not ancient times. But is it?
Recall it was stated that the Biblical flood lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. A square of sides 40 units has a diagonal 56.5 units long. Furthermore, a square of sides 56 units has a diagonal of 79.2.
Of course it should be noted that Noah lived to the grand age of 950 years. The inclination is to see how many months this is, since that age is improbable. Then 950 / 12 = …….. 79.2. Yes!
Even more interesting is the diameter of Earth is 7920 miles.
It is almost as if someone traveled there, fixed the longitude of Belchair Island at 79.2 degrees West and traveled back eastward until they reached 0̊. This implies the zero point was not chosen first but it was a result of choosing that island and fixing that number to it (79.2) because of its relationship to the diameter of the Earth. This suggests that the Greenwich meridian is of very ancient origin. **See below.
It should also be pointed out that the name of the lower round circular arc in Hudson Bay is Nastapoka Arc and this is astoundingly Anglo-Saxon sounding. ‘Nes’ means to survive. ‘Tap’ means tap or impact. ‘Pok’ means pock or in this case round scar such as a crater. So then, the word is ‘surviving tap crater.’ Could it be that the ancient people explored the region after the apocalypse (a-poc-calypse) and discovered the reason for the flood? Would that have been a triple comet strike into the TWO MILE THICK ice sheet that instantly melted creating a worldwide flood?
It is easy then to suggest these pillars are telling the story of the apocalypse. It suggests it was a comet impact and a magnetic pole shift. Other cultures use different images to tell the same story. This moves the date of the flood back to about 10,000 years ago which coincides with global temperature changes. We call it the end of the ice age.
In conclusion, we might conjecture that the religion of the builder’s of Göbekli Tepe is one of long duration. We call it today the religion of Baal but know little of it. Yet, in modern day religions, there are still bits and pieces of it as shown above.
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