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This is the entire collection of anything
that was going on in the Chandlerfer region

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prior to Quebec-Litepe and it amounts to
about 10 flint or stone implements or

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projectile points. Now that doesn't mean that
there was not settlement here, just

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the fact that quite clearly they've not
uncovered anything here, but what we do

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know is that the culture behind Quebec-Litepe
was certainly up and running

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in eastern Anatolia as much as a thousand
years earlier. There's a site

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there called Halamshemi, which is related to
the same

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culture, but it's like a proto-form, but it
does seem as if there are other

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influences from Quebec-Litepe possibly coming
from the south, from what's

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northern Syria and places like that, but as
I've said, you know, my books and

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even Professor Klaus Schmidt says that there
does appear to be an influence

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coming in from the north, probably between
the Black Sea and the Caspian

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Sea. I mean obviously have a look at these
flints, not much to look at there,

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but as soon as we step into the next room,
bang, Quebec-Litepe culture.

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This is obviously a reconstruction of
enclosure D at Quebec-Litepe, and the whol...

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has been recreated is interesting because you
come in from the south, well

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the south-easters, they've made it here, but
you would approach from the south

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and you would come here and you'd stand
between these incredibly beautiful, large

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18 and a half feet tall monoliths, and you'd
have looked through that hole,

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which should be in the centre, it's wrongly
placed, and if I get an

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opportunity to speak to somebody about this,
I will do, and ask them to actually

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put it in the correct position, but you'd
have been able to look through that

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at night and you would have seen not just the
bright star Cygnus, sorry, bright

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star Deneb in the constellation of Cygnus
setting on the horizon, but around

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it you'd have seen the Milky Way, where it
bifurcates or falcks at this point, and

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this I think would have been the point of
synchronisation that would have allowed the

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shaman or shamaness or the priestesses to
enter into the outer states of

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consciousness so that they could then project
their souls out of the body

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through that hole into the sky world so that
it could do its business, you know,

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it could counteract supernatural forces, it
could speak to celestial beings,

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communicate with the ancestors, you know, see
the gods or whatever, you know, this

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to me is what was going on and to me this is
the affirmation that these

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enclosures are focused towards the north,
they're not focused towards the south,

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these are only looking at you as you walk in
here, you know, you are walking

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between these, you're facing them just in the
same way, if you

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walk into a church and you've got Jesus and
the Virgin Mary, each side of you as

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you walk towards the high altar, it's the
same thing, they're not looking towards

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the southern horizon, they are part of the
experience for the person, the

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person going inside this building, this
structure and the altar, if you like, if

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you want to call it that, the Holy of Holies
is the whole stone, the soul

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hole, the soul hole is the Holy of Holies,
that's the point of exit of this world

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and the entrance into the next so that you
can go about your business there,

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you can communicate with the ancestors, you
can speak to the gods and goddesses,

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you can, you know, encounter the celestial
beings or the supernatural

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forces, the creatures, the tricksters, that
would have been associated with

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with the stability of the world.

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Right, this is the soul hole, okay, this,
Klaus Schmidt himself said, he thought

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that this represented the soul hole, this
would have been part of an entrance

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into a lost enclosure and now Klaus Schmidt
came from Germany, he would

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have known about megalithic architecture
there, in fact I think he was quite

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interested in the subject and he would have
known that you have these holes in

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the entrance facades of the dolmens there,
there's quite a number in Germany

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itself with these soul holes, so this is how
he knew about this term

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sielandach, soul hole in English, the idea of
to allow the passage of the soul from

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this world to the next, be it the burial
that's inside the dolmen, the soul being

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able to come out through the hole and wander
out and coming back, like the

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false doors that you find in various ancient
Egyptian temples, so you know I

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think that he was probably right and this is
like a more portable form of

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the soul hole that you get in enclosures C
and D, now which type of

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enclosure this came from we don't know
because this was found basically loose

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on the ground when Schmidt got there, I mean
there was a number of bits and

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pieces that they actually just picked up off
the ground, yeah yeah I mean

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obviously they well actually I think it's
once it's four yeah four pieces and

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obviously they've they they picked this up
and anything decent they took away

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anything that they they they didn't really
want to worry about they just

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numbered and they placed it in a big garden
area right by the entrance

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opposite and you'll see this when we go back
tomorrow there's a whole garden

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full of just fragments that they've they
obviously found and have not even

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bothered to take away from the site

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Archaic features you know quite very strong
jaw a little bit like Earth a

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man but but even even even longer now he has
a very strange ponytail the hair is

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is drawn up and gathered together in what
appears to be like a sort of

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ponytail and he's wearing and it seems to be
partly shaved around the top of

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the ears now again we don't know whether this
was just some artistic style or

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what but this is a very very strange statue
it's possible that the eyes may

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have been of obsidian indeed

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now that this is one of the only obvious
relief images of a woman that's been

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found so far at Quebec lit up a it was
discovered by the altar on the floor in

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front of the altar in the lion pillar
building close to the fig mulberry tree

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on the top of it okay now it was not in
primary use it was in secondary use in

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other words it had probably come from
somewhere else and been moved here at a

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point so it doesn't necessarily date to the
same time frame as the lion pillar

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building in other words it could be from an
earlier phase so we don't know

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exactly what it represents or whether it is
connected with that that particular

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temple but obviously you have a woman here
with a very strange I would say

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mushroom or or serpent headed because you'll
see that the heads of the

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serpents that very very similar to this which
we'll see shortly you have got

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you have got some goddess statues found here
some small ones I mean you know

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these are more obvious yeah goddess statues

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that's that's the considered a Raptor

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music

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this is the famous this is the famous earth a
man okay it's a stone idol that

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was found actually in chanler for very close
to the pools of Abraham in the I

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think it was the the beginning of the 1990s
and it was found during urban

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development and they found it they got it out
and they did excavations at the

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spot and they found that there was a
settlement here that went back in age to

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around 9,000 BC and it's this reason why the
guides will tell you that earth has

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a history going back to 9,000 BC because of
this early settlement and the fact

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that it's so close to the pools of Abraham
and the birthplace of Abraham

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does definitely suggest that there would have
been a continuity going from

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this early settlement right the way through
to the age of Abraham let's call

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it that then through to modern shang-e-fa now
the actual idol itself is

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it very very important because firstly it's
got a head and a face now you

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might think oh well so what but what this
proves is that the culture who were

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responsible for Gebekli Tepe knew how to do
faces if they wanted but for some

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reason he hasn't got a mouth which presumably
is purposeful his eyes are

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made of the black volcanic glass known as
obsidian which was highly prized and

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what's interesting is that obsidian eyes were
also used in the statues on

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Easter Island the Moai statues that they use
bless you

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and so you know this is an interesting thing
why would you create these people

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with these black eyes I mean obviously
presumably it represents the the iris

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but that's that obviously it's life-size
around its neck you have

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these these these twin bands that almost
certainly are meant to represent

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some kind of emblems of office that you know
he's wearing some kind of thing

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around his neck that gravity is pulling it
down either that or it's some kind of

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garment

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right what Matt here has just pointed out is
there's a tiny sliver of

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presumably is it bone or something let's have
a look six bone a bone plaque from

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that was found at go back to Tepe I've never
ever seen before and it almost

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certainly shows two T shaped pillars standing
in the middle of which is a

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person and above them between the two pillars
is the soul hole as shown in

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enclosure D and enclosure C and probably
within other enclosures that are now

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either covered up or destroyed so this is
showing the veneration that may have

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been taking place in these enclosures whilst
they were operational and showing

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the significance of the soul hole that's a
major fine thank you that's yeah and

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I shall credit you in the in the book I shall
definitely mention this in the

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book

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yeah

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yeah