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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Note on Dating System Used
Illustration Credits
Introduction By Graham Hancock
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
GÖBEKLI TEPE IN CONTEXT
EGYPT’S FIRST TIME
LION PILLAR BUILDING
FORGOTTEN CIVILIZATION
CATASTROPHOBIA
ABODE OF THE GODS
CULT OF THE VULTURE
FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS
Prologue: In Quest of Angels
Part 1: Construction
Chapter 1: A Lifetime’s Work
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SUBLIME SOPHISTICATION
SANGUINE DISCOVERIES
NEOLITHIZATION
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MINEFIELD
THE CULT BUILDING
THE GREAT MONOLITH
A PERSONAL DIVINITY
EXPLORING GÖBEKLI TEPE
Chapter 2: Monumental Architecture
SNAKE PILLAR BUILDING
CULT OF THE SNAKE
ENCLOSURE B EXPOSED
NEW TEMPLES DISCOVERED
DELIBERATE BURIAL
THE YOUNGER DRYAS MINI ICE AGE
A LIFE OF BEER
CUP MARKS FOR CARRION BIRDS
ENGINEERING CONUNDRUM
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 3: Frozen in Stone
ENCLOSURE C
A DOUBLE RING OF STONES
THE DROMOS
ENCLOSURE D
MYSTERY OF THE FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
LATER PHASES OF BUILDING ACTIVITY
TRIANGLE D’OR
Chapter 4: Strange Glyphs and Ideograms
THE H GLYPH
SHAMANIC POT STANDS
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART
EMBLEMS OF OFFICE
THE EYE AND THE CRESCENT
THE WESTERN CENTRAL PILLAR
Part 2: Cosmos
Chapter 5: Gateway to Heaven
A CLOCKWISE MOTION
THE SUN’S PATH
COSMIC HARMONY
CENTER OF THE WORLD
PLACE OF THE PLACENTA
TEMPLE OF THE TWINS
TWIN PORTALS TO THE SKY WORLD
Chapter 6: Window on Another World
THE LASCAUX SHAFT SCENE
THE SUMMER TRIANGLE
THE VENUS AND THE SORCERER
THE GREAT RIFT
CAVE SCENES TO CULT SHRINES
Chapter 7: Turned toward the Stars
ANGLES OF ORIENTATION
AN ORION CORRELATION?
ALIGNED TO SIRIUS?
NORTH OR SOUTH?
TARGET REVEALED
ENCLOSURE DATES
CELESTIAL MARKERS
SIGHTING STONE DISCOVERY
SOUL HOLES
CAUCASIAN DOLMENS
PASSAGE OF THE SOUL
Chapter 8: The Path of Souls
CLEAVING OPEN THE PORTALS
THE DENEB PORTAL
STORM DEMON WITH OPEN MOUTH
VENERATION OF THE POLE STAR
SHIFTING POLE STARS
Chapter 9: Cult of the Vulture
PSYCHOPOMP
GÖBEKLI’S VULTURE STONE
HEAD LIKE A BALL
VULTURE WINGS
STAR MAP IN STONE
CYGNUS AS A VULTURE
Chapter 10: Cosmic Birth Stone
THE KILISIK STATUE
COSMIC BIRTH
BIRTH CHAMBER
COSMOLOGICAL BELIEFS
Part 3: Catastrophobia
Chapter 11: The Hooded Ones
THE MINI T-SHAPED STATUE
A SUDDEN CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE
MESSIANIC MESSAGE
Chapter 12: Fear of the Fox’s Tail
BELT BUCKLE CLUE
THREE-TAILED COMET
MARK OF THE COMET
COMETARY CANINES
I PREDICT A COMET
Chapter 13: Cosmic Trickster
TURNING THE HEAVENS
MAN VERSUS DEVIL
RESTORING COSMIC ORDER
Chapter 14: From a Fox to a Wolf
THE CESSATION OF COSMIC TIME
Chapter 15: Twilight of the Gods
THE EDDAS
THE DEVOURING OF THE SUN AND MOON
THE MIDGARD SERPENT
THE MONSTROUS REGIMENT
BATTLE OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS
THE EARTH SINKS
THE FIMBUL-WINTER
DONNELLY’S DATES
NUCLEAR WINTER
Chapter 16: The Wolf Progeny
SAVIOR OF THE WORLD
BLACK DOG
THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE
TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY
THE BUNDAHISHN
Chapter 17: A Dark Day in Syria
THE BIG CHILL
MICROSPHERULES AND SLOS
MELT PRODUCTS
MULTIPLE IMPACTORS
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
KILL, CHILL, ILL, AND NOW GRILL!
Chapter 18: Aftermath
A BEDOUIN CATASTROPHE MYTH
SEVEN-TAILED COMET
PROFESSOR SCHMIDT’S OPINIONS
A REMEDY FOR CATASTROPHOBIA
Part 4: Contact
Chapter 19: The Reindeer Hunters
TANGED POINT CULTURES
THE CASE OF MARY SETTEGAST
THE SWIDERIAN CULTURE
THE SWIDERIAN LANDSCAPE
Chapter 20: Swiderian Dawn
THE WITÓW PEOPLE
SWIDERIANS IN CRIMEA
TANGED POINTS IN THE NEAR EAST
POST-SWIDERIAN CULTURES
FINNO-UGRIC PEOPLES
HUMAN HYBRIDS
Chapter 21: The Solutrean Connection
RIMUTÈ RIMANTIENÈ’S COMMENTS
ANCIENT MARINERS
THE BRÜNN CONTROVERSY
SOLUTREAN STONE FRIEZES
PURSUED BY A BULL
SOLUTREAN BIRD CULT?
THE SKY PEOPLE
SWANS AND WOLVES
HUNTING WITH WOLVES
Chapter 22: Obsidian Obsession
THE FRANCHTHI CAVE
LETHAL WEAPON
CROW-FLINT FIRE
OBSIDIAN RELIGION
THE SEARCH FOR NEW SOURCES
Chapter 23: The Bingöl Masters
THE EMERGENCE OF HALLAN ÇEMI
EUROPEAN TAKEOVER
THE GOBUSTAN WARRIORS
DISTANT COUSINS
Chapter 24: Wolf Stone Mountain
SERVANTS OF SATAN
LAND OF THE PERI
Chapter 25: Saviors of the World
WOLF-STICK FESTIVAL
THE SHAMAN’S POLE
OCCULT BATTLE
STRANGE CUSTOMS OF THE SÁMI
FINNO-UGRIC ORIGINS
FOX, NOT WOLF?
Chapter 26: Strange-looking People
COMMUNITY NETWORKING
THE WALLS OF JERICHO
SCHMIDT AND THE SWIDERIANS
THE END OF GÖBEKLI TEPE
Part 5: Convergence
Chapter 27: In the Garden of Eden
TEMPLE IN EDEN
THE EXISTENCE OF PARADISE
THE GREAT REFORM
THE HIDDEKEL
GIHON AND THE LAND OF CUSH
IN SEARCH OF THE PISON
THE LAND OF GOLD
SEAT ON THE RIVER OF EDEN
RELAND’S CHOICE
Chapter 28: The Fountain of Paradise
THE PLAIN OF MUSH
MONASTIC FOUNDATIONS
THE TREE OF LIFE
FINDING OTHER EDENS
THE REVEREND MARMADUKE CARVER
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
A MERE UTOPIA
CHERUBIM WITH THE FLAMING SWORDS
CARVER’S MAP OF PARADISE
MOUNT ABUS
THE SOURCE OF MANY RIVERS
Chapter 29: The World’s Summit
THE PISON RIVER—NEW EVIDENCE
FOUNTAIN OF LIFE
AL-KHIDR, THE GREEN ONE
THE CULT OF ENKI
DILMUN—GARDEN OF THE GODS
THE DIMLI KURDS
THE FOUNTAIN OF HIZIR
Chapter 30: Rise of the Anunnaki
MOUNTAIN OF THE GODS
THE NIPPUR FOUNDATION CYLINDER
MOUNT AL-JUDI
THE SWITCH TO MOUNT MASSIS
THE NIPPUR FOUNDATION CYLINDER
CULT OF THE SNAKE
NO CEDAR FORESTS
Chapter 31: The Making of Humankind
THE CREATION OF MAN
EVE, THE GIVER OF LIFE
Chapter 32: The Coming of the Watchers
FIRSTS FOR HUMANITY
THE SONS OF GOD
VISAGE LIKE A VIPER
HUMAN ANGELS
Chapter 33: Mountain of the Watchers
ARMON NOT HERMON?
MOUNT ARARAT AGAIN
MOUNTAIN-LAND OF THE MINYAS
HEAVENLY MOUNTAIN
THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD
BENEATH THE POLE STAR
ENOCH IN PARADISE
TIGRIS TUNNEL
THE MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY
BABYLONIAN MAP OF THE WORLD
GOD’S PROMISED LAND
Chapter 34: Walking with Serpents
THE MYSTERY OF TELL ARPACHIYAH
SNAKELIKE HEADS
CULT OF THE SNAKE
ELITE RITUAL CENTER
CITY OF ENOCH
THE PERI AND CIN
EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE?
Part 6: Completion
Chapter 35: A Quiet Corner of Eden
EDEN-LIKE WOODLAND
THE DISCIPLE THADDEUS
EDEN AND THE TREE OF LIFE
THE OIL OF MERCY
HOLY ANOINTING OIL
THE ANGEL’S GIFT
THE TRUE AND LIVING CROSS
Chapter 36: The Red Church
STRANGE DECREE
ONLINE APPEAL
HOLY TREE AND SACRED SPRING
DERA SOR IS YEGHRDUT!
SIM MOUNTAIN
Chapter 37: The Secrets of Adam
THE REVELATIONS OF METHODIUS
WHERE IS CORDAN MONTE?
THE SEED OF SETH
THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY
THE PILLARS OF SETH
THE LAND OF SIRIAD
THE ROCK OF TRUTH
THE GOSPEL OF THE EGYPTIANS
THE SEARCH FOR CHARAXIO
MOUNT SIR
MONS VICTORIALIS
Chapter 38: As Angels Ourselves
LIKE THE ANGELS
THE HOLY MYRON
LINKS TO YEGHRDUT
THE CHILDREN OF SETH
A TRIP TO TURKEY
Chapter 39: The Return to Eden
THE TAXI RIDE
PKK SITUATION
THE DERA SOR COMMUNITY
A VISIT TO THE SPRING
THE HOLY TREE
EAGLE ON THE WORLD TREE
THE WOOD THAT CUTS
THE RUINS EXPLORED
FINDING THE CHURCHES
SPECTACULAR VIEWS
IS THIS EDEN?
THE RED EARTH OF ADAM
A RESPITE
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
Chapter 40: A Trip to Paradise
MOUNTAIN LION
PEOPLE OF TRUTH
COSMIC LION
ARRIVAL AT MUSKA
FOUNTAIN OF HIZIR
FISH FARM
POETRY READING
Chapter 41: Göbekli Tepe Revisited
UNFINISHED MONOLITH
JUTTING HEADLAND
NEW LION PILLAR
MIGHTY LION
Chapter 42: A Loss of Innocence
A SENSE OF GUILT
DEATH OF AN IDYLLIC WORLD
TRAUMA AND INJURIES
BACK TO EDEN
A RETURN TO THE SOURCE
Appendix
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
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