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[[*History 8 First Towns and Villages Video Notes]]
 
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The columns found in Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, carved with fox, serpent, and lion figurines, were used as an altar for a religious sky burial. The logic behind a sky burial is to allow scavenging birds to eat the carcass of a deceased person, and as they eat the bones clean it is believed that the person's soul is released up to the heavens above. It marks a point where a group collectively thought together to create a public ritual in which everyone believed the same beliefs. This 12,000 year old sanctuary marks the budding of a religion, and it now eventually has grown into the beliefs and religions of today.
 
 
 
 
http://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video_DEV/973/399/ngm-gobekli-tepe-artwork_480x360.jpg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
First Towns and Villages Video Notes
 
Baptista, Fernando. "Gobekli Tepe." National Geographic. National Geographic
 
    Society, '''1888-2015 scrool down to copyright date'''. Web. 11 Jan. 2015. <http://video.nationalgeographic.com/
 
    video/magazine/ngm-gobekli-tepe-artwork>.
 
Matthew Kushwaha
 

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*History 8 First Towns and Villages Video Notes