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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE 70 THE MYSTERY OF MYTHOS
Maybe we have forgotten how to dream in the last 12 thousand years. The land has taken us captive. Our dreams have been replaced by our future, squeezed between our worries. What is left is a monotonous civilization. A different civilization that does not dream…
We were strangers before. In the middle of a limitless world, a limitless universe, we would dream of stories, myths, legends about our existence, the world, the universe, nature and life, and we would tell them to each other by word of mouth. For this reason, being Enkidu, being a stranger, seemed more exciting than being Gilgamesh. The world and the universe we live in, with all its wildness, has fed our dreams and made them pregnant with myths. This is how Göbekli Tepe was born. We see all the wildness of nature and the universe in it, but we cannot understand it. Göbekli Tepe, with all its mystery and wildness, hovers over this new civilization like a dream...
We cannot understand Göbekli Tepe. Because, how can a civilization that is hostile to nature, other living things, the universe, the above and below ground understand Göbekli Tepe? How can they imagine scorpions, snakes, birds; what can those we now know as enemies tell us? When humans were savages, the world they lived in was their friend. Humans were a part of nature, not its owner. For tens of thousands of years, we have produced myths, stories and legends about nature, life and the universe. Humans have become a part of these myths, not the heroes. Now, we kill cranes and try to understand Göbekli Tepe's crane depictions, and we dream of animals we have made extinct telling us stories...
Myth is the root of the tree. It is common wealth. It is the dream and memory of humanity. Myth is the wild state of humanity, pure and mixed. Myth is nomadic. Myth is ownerless. Every geography adopts myth, changes it according to itself, shapes it, embellishes it and blows it into the ears. It gets richer from ear to ear, then returns; it returns to the root from which it first emerged. In other words, it returns to the human being. With myths, we discover culture, get to know geography, and reach the root.
When there was no religion, when there was no god, there were myths. There were stars in the sky, the shining sun, the forest we passed through, the tree we rested under, the cave we slept in at night, the lofty mountains we could not overcome, the river we drank from its cool water and the other creatures we fed; these were sacred and valuable for life. For this reason, we defined each of them as a sacred river, a sacred mountain, a sacred animal. Myths are the narrative of the relationship between man and nature, a relationship that complements each other.
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