New statues found in Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe: The first painted neolithic statue was discovered

JTF Truth Yes, maybe (and yes that is a figure holding its penis - the same has been discovered at the center of a complex freeze at nearby Sayburç). But fertility/virility of what? By whom? And when? For one should also notice that the figure from Karahan Tepe equally powerfully portrays all its ribs exposed, its body ravaged. This exact motif appears regularly in certain power figures from this area, all of them connected to the God holding his own penis.

The most likely symbolic meaning deduced from so many depictions of this type is it being a representation of an acute, reoccurring threat - hunger and death bringing starvation.

Fertility and starvation - now there's a double message!

And that I think is the point.

Because when you are in the business of replacing one ancient religion with another, at first you always have to start by incorporating elements of the old to give your new story gravitas and meaning - because the old beliefs are embedded in people's DNA and they wont get rid of it easily (ask the Christians and how they incorpoated so many elements of ancient Middle-Eastern and Northern pagan myths into their programming).

So what's the devious story going on here? Well...

Once upon a time there was a much adored, all powerful 'God' who solely possessed divine procreative power and who watched over his flock and kept them healthy and fed. But he has gone now. He's been driven from the scene. Conquered and overwhelmed, leaving behind but a memory and an abandoned flock. And all his fertility left behind has turned to ash - and starvation!

The same figure is represented in the new finds at Göbekli Tepe in the top picture. The original God - once beloved of the people - can be seen in the already long excavated vertical slab at the back with the hole in it. If you understand this figure properly you can see it as a once all powerful entity, the hole being its 'head' - which is too complicated an issue to go into here - with his arms and horns aloft in a show of divine grace and majesty. It is positioned directly North at the 12 o'clock position of Enclosure D. North was the most sacred position in all ancient myth - north was where the God once 'lived' in close proximity to his flock. North, where the still center of the universe still resides to this day (and why do you think Father Christmas comes from the North?). This represents the same figure as the one holding his penis. They are dual representations of the same concept of absolute grace and authority. However...

The new discoveries are the ferocious, implacable boar astride an 'alter' upon which at the front is the distinctive 'H' symbol, which is likely a further distilled, depersonalized symbolic form of this same precursor God but here being faced down and dominated by the new kid on the block; the cosmic Serpent. Along with the cosmic trickster, The Fox - The Serpent and The Boar were key power figures of a new religion. They are here showing their dominance over the old (and most likely represent distinct comets, rogue planets or other electrical cosmic forces of destruction that haunted the minds of the people of that time from terrifying first hand experience as they watched their world of harmony burn and disintegrate).

The old power let you down and abandoned you, this design declares. Now a new reality - based on raw power, fear and darkness - is running the show!

Down on your knees and give sacrifice! Preferably blood! Human blood of course! Otherwise you will join the likes of your previous god and the starvation he left in his wake as the new gods arrived and drove him from the field.

This mythos comes down to us today in the much, much, much later and completely manipulated/diluted story of how the Olympian Gods defeated their predecessors the Titans, and above all the fall from power of Chronos/Saturn.

Myth and the control of myth was after all, the political ideology of the times.

And Secret Societies have extremely long antecedents...

The massive catastrophe of the Younger Dryas destroyed the old order - bringing the end to the Golden Age.

For many millennia after the victorious comet gods patrolled the horizon and regularly revisited their destructive power down below... if the people didn't give their full obedience...

For the power of the comet gods rightfully left an utterly indelible terror and trauma mark on the survivors for countless generations.

Göbekli Tepe / Karahan Tepe and the like is where certain pathological types began the task of rearranging the belief systems of the survivors and engineering their minds into seeing the world in a completely different way.

Blood, power, sacrifice, obedience, control.

But above all - fear...

In their pomp, these places would have made the CIA's Jonestown look like a 3 year olds bedtime story.

But if you tell that to youngsters today... they won't believe you! They won't!

FWIW.