19/06/2015 [ANCIENT ETHIOPIAN RELIGION: "Stone Temple Religion" of "Natufian Culture"(Gobeklii Tepe,Turkey) & "Nimrod religion"(Mesopotamia)] Similarity exist between the religion of Gobeklii Tepe(archaeolgical site) & biblical descriptions of Nimrod's religion(southern mesopotamia). "Stone temple" (in Gobeklii Tepe,Turkey) has structures that resemble the T -shaped cross of Nimrod from southern Mesopotamia. The cross of Nimrod = The cross of Tammuz/Dumuzi (from the bible and archaeology) In Turkey,the Gobleklii Tepe "Stone temple" survived 12,000 years because it was buried. [The builders were Africans from the Sahara (natufian culture). Natufian Africans migrated into Palestine and southern Turkey. Natufian Africans were initially nomads but they invented farming technology. When natufians built Gobeklii Tepe "stone temple" in Turkey, were they disciples of ancient Ethiopian religion? Did Ancient Ethiopian religion propagate westward into the Sahara?Did the Natufian Africans then carry that religion into Palestine and Turkey? ] Did similar stone temples exist in Arabia? Maybe most of the Ethiopian "stone temples" in Arabia did not survive because they were not buried. --------------- Question: What influence could Africans have in southern Turkey? Answer: 1) Around 12000 years ago there were people from the Sahara Africa that migrated north into Palestine,Syria,Southern Turkey. They are called the Natufian Culture. They were Africans from the Sahara. So thousands of years ago, Southern Turkey was in contact with the Sahara and its African influences. 2) Southern turkey is the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. [Gobeklii Tepe is situated in the northern portion of the Fertile Crescent.] So over thousands of years, Southern Turkey was in contact with Mesopotamia and its Ethiopian influences. --------------- Natufian Africans probably founded Jericho 9000 years old city. [Thousands of years later, the canaanite culture formed, and inhabited Jericho.] --------------- What was ancient Ethiopian Religion? Why did it inspire ancient people to build stone temples? What was the religion of Nimrod? What was the religion of Gobeklii Tepe "Stone Temple" ? Suprisingly, these religions were probably the same. It is the religion of "Great Hunter" or "Orion". It is the religion of the "Great Hunter" surrounded by the wild animals he hunts. The animals sustain the life of the Hunter by dieing and getting eaten. But sometimes the Hunter dies for his animals.So wild animals are nourished by his body. So he is the "Good Hunter" who sometimes dies for his animals. In modern times the religion of the "Great Hunter" transformed into the religion of the "Good Shepherd" surrounded by his sheep. [i.e. Over thousands of years, animals were domesticated. So wild hunted animals became domesticated farm animals over thousands of years. So the Hunter was transformed into the Shepherd.] The domesticated sheep sustain the life of the Shepherd by dieing and getting eaten. But sometimes the Shepherd dies for his sheep. e.g. When defending his sheep against wolves. The bible describes the Ethiopian religion of the "Great Hunter" in Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 10:9 And at Gobeklii Tepe archaeological site, this religion is depicted by animal figures carved on the T-shaped stones. ----------------------- The bible remembers the ancient religion of Ethiopia: how it was connected with: - people coming together - people feasting on the bodies of wild animals (hunted animals) - sometimes wild animals feeding on the bodies of people/hunters/shepherds. - eternal life beliefs (the building of temples to the dead) Perhaps the bible remembers the religion of the Great Hunter in John 6:53 6:53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 6:54 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 6:55 "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink..." 10:11 "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep." [Note this is NOT about cannibalism. This is about the hunter and the wild animal. Sometimes the hunter is the predator, sometimes the hunter becomes the prey. And this tale was later changed to the shepherd and his sheep.] ----------------------- The "Great Hunter" who dies, is also Hunter the who will be brought back to life. The Great Hunter dies but is promised to live again. The people who built stone temples 12000 years ago were inspired by an interesting idea. They were following a religion that promised them "eternal life". [The religion of the "Great Hunter" is also the religion of "eternal life". It is a religion where the Hunter's life is sustained/prolonged by the cultivation&sacrifice of the animals around him. And this developed into a religious system where some kinds of sacrifices might result in humans being brought back to life after they die.] People 12000 years ago were inspired by a religion of "eternal life". It was a religion that gathered people together into groups, and helped them work together to build large structures like Temples. [See the documentary "Cradle of the Gods" to understand how ancient Ethiopian religion unified people. i.e. Or how Natufian religion unified people. This website assumes that Natufian and Ethiopian religion were similar, because Natufian religion of Gobeklii Tepe is the same or very similar to the Nimrod religion from Mesopotamia that is described in the bible (Genesis 11). ------------------------- The documentary "Cradle of the Gods" doesn't mention Ethiopians directly,but it does give interesting information about how religious activity created advances in technology and culture. ] i.e. Science assumes that farming led to the creation of religion and temples. (farming -> religion -> temples) But the stone temples of Gobeklii Tepe proves that religion and temples came before farming. (religion -> temples -> farming) So ancient religion was a useful force which brought people together and helped them to settle down,farm, and domesticate animals. ------------------------------- Eventually this Ethiopian religion of bring people together & working had an interesting result. Eventually this religion helped create the first civilization (in Mesopotamia). And various traditions suggest that the first civilization was Ethiopian. ============================================== return to main page: http://sumerdecoded.com/index_.htm