Posted on 07/02/2026 1:20:02 AM PDT by Cronos
A new study compares the carved symbolism of Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone with ritual imagery from the Trypillia culture, suggesting that early farming societies in Anatolia and Eastern Europe may have shared cosmological ideas about time, death, sacred space and the movement of the heavens.
At Göbekli Tepe, the famous Vulture Stone has never been easy to read. Its carved birds, snakes, scorpion, abstract signs and headless human figure have inspired competing interpretations for decades. Was it a scene of death ritual, an astronomical code, a mythic narrative, or something more complex? A new study argues that the answer may not lie in choosing one explanation over another, but in seeing the pillar as part of a wider symbolic system linking architecture, timekeeping and cosmology across early farming societies.
The study, published in the International Journal of Culture and History by Oleksandr Zavalii, focuses on the cosmological aspects of Göbekli Tepe’s T-shaped stelae and compares them with religious symbolism from the Trypillia culture of Ukraine. Its central claim is cautious but ambitious: the carvings at Göbekli Tepe may preserve not isolated symbols, but a structured sacred language involving solar cycles, lunar rhythms, animal imagery, geometry and sacred space.
Göbekli Tepe, dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, roughly 9600 to 8200 BCE, already occupies a special place in archaeology as one of the earliest known monumental ritual landscapes. Zavalii’s paper revisits several pillars, especially Stele 43, known as the Vulture Stone, along with Steles 33, 18, 20 and 1. Rather than treating the carvings as decoration, the study reads them as components of a broader visual grammar.
On Stele 43, the upper register includes bird figures, three arch-like forms, a central circle, rectangular elements and H-shaped signs. The lower register contains animals more closely associated with the earth or underworld, including a scorpion, snake, boar, waterfowl and a headless human figure. Zavalii suggests that this division may reflect a two-level cosmos, with celestial imagery above and chthonic or mortal imagery below.
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It’s Noah. 4 birds sent out. One has the olive.
3 ships...Hebrew Septuagint says sons ship 3
It’s the stern endview of 3 ships each with a opening on top with a roof per Genesis.
Noah had the birds ark.
One son had the cattle ship ark.
Another son had the wild animals ark ship.
Another son had the reptiles ship..per Genesis sequence.
You don’t put cattle and lions on the same boat.
The Animals didn’t suddenly become docile and loved each other and as soon as they got of the ark they became wild again.
Reductio ad absurdam
This is why there are multiple reports of finding arks in different locations. It’s multiple arks.
The Hebrew and Greek Septuagint say “ships sons 3”
There are 27 “V”s on the top and middle.
The earth dried up on the 27th day.
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