Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Ovals B C D of Goebekli Tepe as lunisolar calendars
part 3, ovals C and D, Nevali Cori, double purpose

The inner oval of temple C is larger than the oval B,
the ring counted 12 or perhaps 13 pillars, and there
is again a pair of inner pillars (four or five of the ring
pillars are lost, have been destroyed by farmers).
Oval D is larger than the inner oval C, ring 12 or
perhaps 13 pillars, a pair of inner pillars (complete,
but only partly excavated).

A ring of 12 pillars, plus a pair of inner pillars: count
a ring pillar for 30 days, 12 times 30 yield 360 days,
add 5 or 6 days for the space between the inner
pillars and you obtain a solar year of 365 or 366 days.
5 rings plus 3 ring pillars yield 63 ring pillars or 1890
days that correspond to 64 lunations. The same idea
and numbers hold for a rectangular building at nearby
Nevali Cori.

A ring of 13 pillars, plus a pair of inner pillars: count
a ring pillar for 28 days, 13 times 28 yield 364 days,
and add 1 or 2 days for the space between the inner
pillars, thus you obtain a solar year of 365 / 366 days.
10 rings plus 5 ring pillars yield 135 ring pillars or
3780 days that correspond to 128 lunations.

A lunisolar calendar is justified by the lower hieroglyph
on the southern narrow flank of an inner pillar of oval D,
showing a lunar sickle embracing a solar disk with
a hollow from below. The upper hieroglyph shows
a pair of vertical bars and a hollow in between, the
ensemble resembling our letter H. The hieroglyph on
the narrow southern flank of the other inner pillar of
oval D shows a bucranium with a hollow.

Klaus Schmidt is reminded of the Iranian "towers of
silence" Dakhmahs, walled mortuary precincts where
the corpses were exposed to birds, wind and weather;
the bodies were quickly decomposed, then the bones
were gathered and placed into stone chist tombs.
My reading of the hieroglyphs goes along with that
interpretation. The body of a dead leader may have
been placed between the inner pillars (H), whereupon
his soul was reborn (bucranium, symbol of the female
reproductive organs) and ascended to the sky (sun).

The tops of the pillars of oval D are covered with cup
marks. I found an explanation for this in the Genesis.
Isaac may have been a Birdman GHI SH'AC, supreme
ruler of Upper Mesopotamia, of the "Flanky Hills" or
the Fertile Crescent in general, residing at Haran / Harran
just south of Goebekli Tepe, where the old ways may
have lasted for a long time. His son Jacob left Bersheba
for Har(r)an, spent a night at a certain place, dreamed,
saw the Lord on top of a heavenly ladder from where
he spoke to him and appointed him ruler of that very
place. In the morning Jacob wakes up, finds the place
dreadful, but certainly the Lord must be here, so he
gives it a name, Beth-el (Beitin), erects the stone he
had used for a pillow for a pillar (_for_ a pillar, says my
Bible, adding emphasis), and pours oil over it. He did
not become a supreme ruler GHI SH'AC as his cultural
father Isaac, but a pronvincial ruler SH'AC Ja'aqob Jacob,
a sagan (governor of the province of Judaea). He humbly
accepts his minor role and pours oil over his pathetic
pillar. This indicates the purpose of the cup marks
on top of the pillars of oval D of Goebekli Tepe: a ruler,
freshly appointed GHI SH'AC, supreme leader of Upper
Mesopotamia, may have poured oil over the pillars.
Also this interpretation goes along with the hieroglyphs:
standing between the inner pillars (H), connected to the
power and order of the heavens (solar disk embraced from
below by a lunar sickle), and provided with general fertility
and wealth (bucranium).

The ovals of Goebekli would then have served a double
purpose: establishing a supreme leader, and transferring
his soul to his heavenly abode after his death. The double
role is very well visualized by a large stone head for the
supreme ruler on earth, and a large limestone ring with
a hollow head (negative head inside the ring) that shapes
the sky into the form of a human face, testifying to the
heavenly life of the ruler: look across that ring and you
can see him in the sky ...

Next time: deep etymology of English "language"

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch



Ovals B C D of Goebekli Tepe as lunisolar calendars
part 3, oval B
making an ancient monument speak again, thus of
concern for sci.lang

The diameters of the relatively small oval B measure
about 8 and 10 meters, while the space between
the central pillars measures nearly 250 centimeters.
10 pillars form an oval, and a pair of pillars mark
the central space. Using the numbers by Klaus
Schmidt for the excavated pillars, my own letters
for the reconstructed pillars, and the asterisk *
for the central space, you get about this ensemble:

upper arc 16 X 34 Y

central line 15 10 * 9 Z

lower arc 14 6 7 8

(with the new interface of Google I can't draw no
more ascii patterns, so you must view my pattern
in the proportional font; hope it appears the same
when it goes online as now when I compose it)

The pillars of the arcs are placed radially, while
the lateral pillars of the central line or row follow
the circumference of the oval. All the four pillars
on the central line (not exactly on the long axis)
are parallel, vertical in the above pattern, in situ
oriented toward ca. NNNW (upward) or SSSE
(downward).

I propose the following sequence for the solar year:

16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8 * (16 X 34 Y Z ...)

Count 30 days for each pillar, thus you get 360
days. Add 5 or 6 days for the space * and you
obtain a solar year of 365 or 366 days. Pillar 16
marks the New Year. This is justified by a stone
phallus that was placed in front of pillar 16. From
pillar 8 you must go to pillar 16. If you prolong
the line of pillar 8, it crosses the central space *
and leads exactly toward the narrow front of pillar
16 where the stone phallus had been found.

For the lunar calendar proceed as follows:

16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8
16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8
16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8
16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8
16 X 34 Y Z 9 10 15 14 6 7 8
16 X 34

These are 63 periods of 30 days, yielding 1890
days, which correspond to 64 lunations (as
explained in the previous messages). The final
pillar number 34 points exactly toward the central
pillar 9, the eastern pillar with the female fox and
a bowl carved into the floor at the base of the pillar.
I dare say this was the lunar fox rising from her
nocturnal cave, and the bowl in front of her was
meant for receiving pebbles - one small pebble
for every day, 30 small ones replaced by a bigger
one, 12 big ones by a still bigger one, thus
allowing to count the periods of time that have
passed. There were also plenty statues found
in situ; some of them might have been used
as moveable calendar markers, placed in front
of one pillar, in front of the next pillar, and so on.

The foxes on the central pillars form with their
tails and backs a quadrant of a circle each, and
both look toward SSSE. The male fox on pillar 10
would be the solar fox raising from his nocturnal
cave.

The lunisolar calendar is justified by a hieroglyph
on a central pillar of the oval D, showing a lunar
sickle embracing the solar disk.

Regards to those who can read; read more than
ten lines of a message; combine an open mind
with a scientific knowledge; don't dismiss a new
insight a priori; and consider that Sir Karl Popper
did not only ask for testable and falsifiable theses
but also for daring ones - the more daring the better

.

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