86) The Earth Mother Goddess

Gobekli Tepe is the oldest archeologically uncovered site. Located in Anatolia / Turkey “east of” Eden (currently covered by Noah’s flood under the Mediterranean) and north of the landing site of the fallen angels on Mount Hermon in Lebanon, the time and place identify it as one of Cain’s first settlements. Consistent with this era’s worship of astral gods and production of 1st generation hybrid giants, it is a monumental astronomical observatory whose purpose is as puzzling to humanist scientists as its burial is inexplicable.

This site contains the oldest depiction of a woman giving birth.

The oldest idol of a mother goddess was unearthed Gobekli Tepe’s neighboring residential area of Catalhoyuk, identified as such by the throne flanked by the royal felines, and the striking similarity to later iconography of the Anatolian Mother Goddess. 

For example, texts dating from 1500-1190 BCE found in the royal archives of the ancient Hittite Capital of Hattusha name KUBABA and depict her, like the Catalhoyuk Mother Goddess, sitting on a throne under which reclines a lion,

Multiple figurines unearthed at other ancient settlements in Anatolia indicate a female-oriented fertility cult.

After the collapse of the Hittite Empire c. 1200 BC the Phrygians established a kingdom in Central Anatolia, transforming Kubaba into the Phrygian Cybele [hard “C” like Kibbles].

Cybele’s cult worship involved ecstatic / drugged all night orgies with music, especially drumming, dancing, singing, and shouting. There is truly nothing new under the sun. The worship of Cybele spread west to Greece and Rome as those cultures developed.

Hesiod’s Greek Theogony in the 8th century BCE[7] describes Hekate of Caria (on the coast of western Anatolia) as a goddess of great honour with domains in sky, earth, and sea, consistent with the three elements of human, spirit gods, and hybrids. As such she was portrayed as three figures. There is strong evidence that this Hekate of Caria is the same as the earlier Phrygian Cybele and Hittite Kubaba and later culturally transformed into Greek Artemis through a coastal Anatolian city doing trade with Greece.

ARTEMIS ELEUTHERA
Homer’s Iliad on the Trojan War refers to Apollo’s twin sister, Artemis, as the mother-goddess of the Anatolian coastal region of Lycia and the protector goddess of its primary city of Myra. Her magnificent temple was famous as Lycia’s most splendid building until it was heavily damaged in the earthquake of 141 AD. 

EPHESIAN ARTEMIS / DIANA
In Ionic (Greek) settlements in Anatolia, such as Ephesus in the 6th century B.C., the Mother Goddess was identified as the Greek Artemis. However test holes have confirmed that the site of her temple in Ephesus was occupied as early as the Bronze Age and at this temple the goddess was venerated in an archaic style consistent with a culture far older than the Greek. She wears a mural crown (like a city’s walls), like Cybele and shrines and venerated objects found in her temple demonstrate her continuity with classical mother goddesses.

“A certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith…called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs,…ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia [Minor / Anatolia] and the world worshippeth.” (Acts 19:24-28)

About two hundred years later, after suffering much persecution for such intolerant monotheism, Christians were overjoyed when Emperor Constantine legitimized Christianity. He went so far as to replaced paganism-suffused Rome in Italy with a newly built Christian capitol in Asia. A generation later in 380 Emperor Theodosius / God’s Gift made monotheistic Christianity the official state religion. 

Worship of the Christian Virgin Mary became prominent in Ephesus, and continues to this day.

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