Many comments on my previous video on Göbekli Tepe centered on three enigmatic symbols at the top of Pillar 43, the "Vulture Pillar." Given the interest, I produced this video to discuss the potential significance of these images, and to present an interpretation of them that I originally offered in an article in 2011.
Here's a link to that article: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/661207?mobileUi=0
Here's a link to my previous Göbekli video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3yal951gw&t=321s
And a link to a more recent article I published about new findings at Göbekli Tepe:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2022-0317/html?lang=en
and here are some links to other relevant videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQKvxbLojA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNrMucrAGjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZrGBrnyTo
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Chapters
00:04 Introduction & Review of Comments
02:16 Assyrian Buckets
02:59 Other Buckets around the World
03:38 Cosmological Significance
04:53 Mundane Baskets
05:15 Argument by Analogy
11:30 Weights for Beam Balances
11:55 An Alternative Explanation
13:01 A Conjectural Reconstruction
14:25 Conclusion
15:32 Credits