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All right, so I'm going to draw up a...

We'll first see a picture of Kobayetepe.

And guys, these places were only discovered in the past few decades, okay?

So these are new places.

We're only starting to understand these places and

so this place is in Turkey in central Turkey

and this dates back about 9500 BC

so this is this about over 11,000 years old

and we don't even think this is the oldest place okay

so if you did your research you will know

that this is basically a place of religious worship you can see

that they constructed this place so that there are these t-shaped pillars okay and these things These are huge, right?

This is a human being and this is a T-shaped pillar.

We think, again, this is all theory.

This is all what we know.

We don't know that much because this is all recent.

But we think that these T-shapes represent human beings.

And within these T-shapes are animals.

can see that they align or they built this this T-shape in a way

that they can practice a ritual or a worship okay

so the people who are leading this will probably who we call shamans

or religious leaders that help us bridge our world with the animal world and a spirit world okay so these are shamans

And so Gobletepe is a place of religious worship.

Now what's interesting about Gobletepe is that the religious site is the oldest,

but we also find houses that are built later on.

So what we think might have happened here is that hunter-gatherers will come to a place now and then

to practice religion, because ultimately,

as human beings, and we discussed this last class,

we have a yearning or we have a need to understand why.

And religion solves this problem for us.

Also, as hunter-gatherer, you need to associate with other hunter-gatherers in order to find mates, okay?

To find husbands and wives to reproduce.

And so this sort of religious center,

great time to come and practice religion

but it's also a great time to feast

and to meet someone you can marry and have children with okay

so that was the original function of the temple now these places are often led by shamans

and what makes them special is that they are charismatic leaders okay

charismatic leaders charismatic leaders are people like Mao Zedong Barack Obama

Bill Clinton okay they're people who for the reason people just love them

and want to follow them okay and so maybe what happened was

that these charismatic leaders they built this place and they became like celebrities

and people came from all over to meet them to hear them to hear the religion

and to meet other people and over time some people even chose to stay with them

and build houses to celebrate them okay and then

when they died what happened was they still worship them in their death

and so this place became a temple okay does that Does that make sense?

So that's one theory about Kobay-Tepay.

There are other theories, okay?

There are some people who will tell you that space aliens came down and built this place because it's so sophisticated, okay?

So there are different theories,

but the one that scholars most agree with today is that it was a religious center.

Any questions before I move on?

So this leader, but religions, or honors.

Okay, so that's a great question okay where is where does religion come from

and this is something that we will look at very closely next class

and the answer is is this okay even though we all

have the need for religion we don't all have the ability to produce religion okay

so who these charismatic leaders are are people who have visions

or dreams of God or the spirit world okay

and then they present their visions to other people

and we have people like this throughout human history right

so think of Jesus think of Mohammed think of Buddha freak

of Confucius right these are people who have these visions of God

or of spirituality or of a new world and present to people

and because they're charismatic they're able to attract followers

and spread the religion and that's that's what probably happened here as well

because as you can see from this picture it was very hard work to build this temple okay this is

11,000 years ago they didn't have bulldozers they didn't have shovels okay this all by hand

so for them to want to dedicate their lives to building this temple

because it took a long long time right it took years

and years and hundreds of people well you needed something called religious devotion right faith does

that make sense okay and again throughout human history we've seen this So think of Christians,

think of Buddhists, think of Muslims, religious faith.

So that's what built this.

Okay, so does that answer your question?

Okay, any more questions before I continue?

Yeah?

Okay, so that's a good question.

Why is a temple structured like this?

Okay, and the answer is that there's cosmological significance to the structure.

Meaning that on a certain time of the year,

what will happen is that the sun will hit this place in a certain way.

So it's almost like a clock.

Does that make sense to you guys?

They designed this in a way so they can tell time.

But their intention was not to tell time,

their intention was to connect with the outer world.

Right?

Does that make sense to you guys?

So they were extremely sophisticated.

They knew a lot about the way the stars worked.

Okay?

So basically for them, this is science, okay?

Today we say this is a religion,

but their science back then is no different from our science today.

Okay?

Does that answer your question?

Okay, and you had a question?

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Did the leaders, like the religious leaders,

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they made up the vision or they really had the vision?

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Okay, so if you talk to any religious people, they saw it, okay?

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They were there, they talked to God, right?

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So we're like, well, you know,

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that doesn't make any sense,

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but they really believe it,

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and that's why they're able to convince their followers.

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Okay, so in the future,

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we will look at someone like Mohammed,

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who had religious visions in a cave,

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like you're like did he really see an angel well he thought he really did okay

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and in fact if we in our research what we discovered is

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that people use who use something called psychedelics okay you know what psychedelics are

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psychedelics are drugs what drugs what these drugs do is they shift your

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neural system so that you see the world in a different way.

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When you do that, you're able to have different visions, okay?

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But we also know that if you go hungry for a long time,

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or you meditate for a long time,

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you're able to see different things.

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So from their perspective, they actually saw this thing, okay?

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Even though, like, we don't think it actually happened.

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Does that make sense?

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For them, it's true.

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But maybe for us, it's not so true.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Any more questions?

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تدريب Shadowing: Why the First Cities Might Just Be Fan Clubs - Prof. Jiang Xueqin - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية مع YouTube

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الفخاخ الشائعة في النطق

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تدريب Shadowing: Why the First Cities Might Just Be Fan Clubs - Prof. Jiang Xueqin - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية مع YouTube

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القواعد والتعابير في السياق

الفخاخ الشائعة في النطق

ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟