Andrew Collins, Gobekli Tepe, and Enoch

Most 'in the know' truth-seekers are already aware of Gobekli Tepe and its implications regarding the errors in academia's dating of humanity's origins. It is getting more and more difficult to support traditional historical hypotheses regarding the development of humankind. The discovery of Gobekli Tepe has turned the archaeological world on its head. Unfortunately, not many archaeologists have come to grips with this as of yet. And yet, the discovery of what seems to be a ritual site with its T-shaped standing stones embedded in circular stone walls and free standing monoliths, standing stones representing figures of some kind set in twos in the center, dating back to 10,000 BC - when no such site "should" have existed - demands that we reevaluate our traditional concepts of progress and development. Who built it? Why did they build it? How? And how - especially in light of traditional ideas that placed development of temples and organized ritual sites - like Gobekli Tepe - sequentially after the development of cities - did the builders find and feed enough people to maintain the workforce that presumably would have been required to construct - and fill in - this site?

Andrew Collins offers well-researched speculation here in his attempts to answer these questions. The double-edged sword that is the History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" means that Collins and his work is now better known, yet also regarded with some degree of skepticism, fueled by some in the mainstream who are quick to label all of it "UFO quackery". But this exploration of the possibilities of what Gobekli Tepe is and what it means is far more complex and well-researched than those skeptics might credit. As Collins freely admits, sometimes he makes intuitive leaps - and why not? Knowledgeable intuition is responsible for most of humankind's advances.

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.

Unlike some of his critics in academia, Collins is not stating his ideas are unequivocally THE answers. They open up the conversation - what did occur in the period dismissed as "pre-history"? As a reader, I was left wanting more support for some of Collins' hypotheses. Others, I found mind-blowing in their possibilities. I enjoyed the intellectual stimulation involved in entertaining the new paradigms he offered, and having my curiosity stoked.