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More than just a pretty face….

Looking at another book that insists they’ve discovered what most of us mortals have missed.  This time we look at Andrew Collins’

First I looked into Collins and there just isn’t much in any what I call “legit” sources:  This is from a site on author’s biographies (http://www.arecatalog.com/Authors/Author/11/Andrew-Collins)

Andrew Collins was raised in the Essex town of Wickford. As a teenager, he became a UFO investigator, and in 1977 he investigated the first-ever missing time abduction case reported in the UK, and that investigation changed his life. He became a journalist with the magazine Strange Phenomena and openly sought the help of psychics in an attempt to better understand the relationship between UFOs, prehistoric sites, earth energies, and the human mind. As a science and history writer, he has authored a variety of books that challenge the way we perceive the past, including his best-selling The Cygnus Mystery… He continues to speak and travel throughout the world ….He leaves ( think they mean lives—or maybe not) near Marlborough, Wiltshire, in the UK.

So basically he started as a teenager UFO hunter and graduated into writing as a “science and history” writer…though how scientific and historic (in the factual state) remains to be seen.

Next I looked at #Gobekli Tepe:

The Smithstonian asks if  Gobekli Tepe: was The World’s First Temple?  and goes on to say:  Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization.  (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/#3yucwq13zWmgGAls.99) in a current article that reviews the most current dig there.    If you read this article you find many theories including this area was the birth of Neolithic society but nothing on the garden of Eden which is claimed on the cover of the book.

A sumary of the book states that at the end of the last ice age with tones weighing from 10-15 tons, shows a level of sophistication that was unmatched until the much later rise of Sumer, Egypt and Babylon.

On Collin’s site (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/gobekli_tepe01.htm):  Göbekli Tepe can be described as sacerdotal, (of, relating to, or characteristic of priests)   in that it was clearly utilized as a place of veneration and perhaps communication with supernatural entities and domains. This is accepted by the main excavator Dr Klaus Schmidt of the German Aarchaeological Institute of Istanbul.

According to Wikipedia:  Klaus Schmidt (December 11, 1953 – July 20, 2014) was a German archaeology professor who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014. …. It was not until 1994 that Schmidt’s attention was caught by the report.  A short time later, Schmidt’s team uncovered evidence that the area was not used as a settlement. Schmidt has suggested the possibility of the site being a burial ground with the dead placed along the hillside, and could have potential insights to hunter-gatherer groups.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Schmidt_(archaeologist)   I find the supernatural contacts would be the indigenous gods of the tribe or tribes that settled and found this amazing site but not  anything beyond the normal speculation on ancient religious beliefs and nothing that it was the origin of our race and the first humans (at least in the Hebrew/Christian theology)

The Garden of Eden is the biblical “garden of God”, described most notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.  The “garden of God”, not called Eden, is mentioned in Genesis 14, and the “trees of the garden” are mentioned in Ezekiel 31. The Book of Zechariah and the Book of Psalms also refer to trees and water in relation to the temple without explicitly mentioning Eden.

Traditionally, the favored derivation of the name “Eden” was from the Akkadian edinnu, derived from a Sumerian word meaning “plain” or “steppe”. Eden is now believed to be more closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning “fruitful, well-watered.” The Hebrew term is translated “pleasure” in Sarah’s secret saying in Genesis 18:12.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden  

So this is biblical and has no mention of exotic gods or presences except the serpent and in fact the presences of other gods are continually decried in the Hebrew text.    The previous listed Wikipedia  site also gives multiple theories for locations by historians and scholars which would show how wide spread this particular topic matter is.

Sorry but again I can find no support for Mr. Collins’ theories….but I have given you sites and his book and web site  so that you can create your own theories—“life is more fun if you think for yourself”—And that’s a quote from me—the Diva herself.