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NEW Turkey Tour for 2023
The Megalithomania tour of Turkey planned for September 2022 with Hugh Newman and JJ Ainsworth is now fully booked. We have, however, put together another tour of Turkey in May 2023. Full details ate given below. Why not join us for this trip of a lifetime, where new discoveries are always made by not only the hosts, but also the tour group itself.
Here is how it is billed on the Megalithomania.co.uk site:
"The breath-taking plains and steppes of eastern Turkey, the traditional Garden of Eden or terrestrial Paradise, was the setting for the Neolithic revolution and the rise of civilization. We will visit some of the world’s most exciting archaeological sites including Göbekli Tepe, the oldest stone temple complex and now a World Heritage Site, and Karahan Tepe, a newly excavated site from the same era, as well as numerous other Tas Tepeler sites that are currently under excavation. The new Urfa Archaeological museum has hundreds of artefacts from Gobekli Tepe, Nevali Çori and other pre-pottery neolithic sites. We also explore the ancient city of Harran, and Çatal Höyük, the world’s first city. We visit the city of Konya, home of the Whirling Dervishes; Alaca Hoyuk and Hattusa that have incredible megalithic polygonal masonry similar to Peru, Sanliurfa, the ancient Christian city of Edessa, birthplace of Abraham; and the traditional area of the Garden of Eden, home of the Watchers and Nephilim of the book of Enoch, and the Annunaki of Sumerian myth and legend. We will also visit the huge underground city of Derinkiyu as well as the Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia. Andrew, Hugh and Jj will be presenting evening lectures throughout the tour, plus they will be discussing theories and new research on site."
Full details below and also at: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/turkey2023.html
We shall, of course, be going to Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe and many of the other sites associated with Anatolia's civilization of the ancients. Check out the details and come along with us.
AWAKENING EXPO 2022
Finally, I was able to connect with the life I had before Covid when I attended the Awakening Expo 2022 event at Blackpool in the north of England.
I presented material from new book Origins of the Gods alongside friends and colleagues including Erich von Daniken, Giorgio Tsoukalos, Billy Carson, Johnny Enoch, Hugh Newman and many more.
It was great to be back in the saddle, and I renewed old acquaintances and made new ones as well.
Erich von Daniken with a copy of Origins of the Gods (Picture credit: Alvin Krishan Askoolum).
I was able to present Erich von Daniken with a copy of Origins of the Gods. He wrote its foreword in which he stated:
"This book is a milestone ... Origins of the Gods should become a textbook and compulsory reading in all schools."
Thank you, Erich, for this great compliment. The book takes the whole ancient aliens concept on to its inevitable next stage suggesting that in addition to being visited in the past by extraterrestrials humanity has co-existed with and interacted with transdimensional beings since the beginning of time. These entities may even have shaped civilization. That is the message of the book. One of the main vehicles of these n-dimensional beings as we call them (n-beings for short) is plasma, the fourth state of matter, which might well harbor an extra dimension of space. Indeed, plasma, ionization and electromagnetic fields are all key to understanding how our minds are able to interact with transdimensional consciousness most obviously at portal locations. Both Greg Little and I write extensively about the significance of plasma in the book, just as I do in 2012 book LightQuest. Another writer who also now considers that plasma might be the key to understanding the nature of non-terrestrial lifeforms is Robert Temple, whose new book A New Science in Heaven also covers similar ideas. Check that out too sometime.
Matters such as plasma, transdimensionality, multidimensional realms such as the bulk, the existence of portals or points of contact with higher dimensional entities, as well as the use of quantum entanglement to attain communion between us and the n-beings are today key issues in new ufology that is emerging today. Clearly, the extraordinary videos taken by US Navy airmen in both the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans remain at the forefront of people's minds, and rightly so, for they provide us with the best confirmation to date of the US military's acceptance of the existence of UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena). However, if we are to move forward and attempt to gain some real insights then we have to look beyond Roswell, UFO crashes, back engineering, Skunk Works, aliens working secretly with humans, nuts and bolts spacecraft, secret agendas, and whistleblowers for our answers. Hopefully, books such as Origins of the Gods, Lightquest and Robert Temple's A New Science in Heaven can help provide at least some clues in this respect.
ORIGINS OF THE GODS:
TRANSDIMENSIONAL BEINGS, SKINWALKERS, AND THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION
BY ANDREW COLLINS
Origins of the Gods: The Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences
Foreword by Erich von Daniken
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Origins of the Gods by Andrew Collins and Greg L. Little
EXPLORING STONE CIRCLES
I enjoyed the surreal ambience Blackpool provides as an old style seaside resort (I come from Southend, Essex's equivalent, so I know what they're like), but had to get back out into nature on the Monday after the event. So Hugh Newman, Giorgio, his partner Krix, our friends Nick Burton and Renee Goulet travelled north to visit some stone circles in the Lake District. We went to Castlerigg, Long Meg and Her Daughters, and also the Little Meg circle.
Among our findings was that there are incredible acoustic properties within a rectangular formation of stones in the southeastern section of Castlerigg known as the Sanctuary. I don't think anyone has noticed this before, even though it is clearly there.
At the entrance to the Sanctuary is a large boulder different to those making up both the circle and the rest of the sanctuary, which are made of a grey slate stone. It is quite literally green in colour, a fact that has to mean something. Why green, and exactly what type of stone is it?
It also seems significant that the Sanctuary appears to align with an outlying stone to the southwest of the main circle. If the Sanctuary is an integral part of the original design of the stone circle then I suspect it was used as a kind of battery or powerhouse where shamans would chant or produce choral notes that would bring alive the entire circle, which would be seen to resonate with power.
Nick, Renee, Giorgio, Krix and Hugh approaching the Castlerigg stone circle.
At Long Meg and her Daughters we realised that the tall monolith known as Long Meg is made of stark red sandstone, while "her Daughters" are made of a grey granitic rock. Once again, the choice of colour seems significant. It is also only on the Long Meg monolith that there are so-called cup and ring marks taking the form of two (and possibly three) series of concentric circles. Giorgio and I speculated that since so many stone circles are traditional associated with the manifestation of mysterious lights that just maybe these carvings represent the intelligences associated with the manifestation of localised UFOs/UAPs. Even more striking examples of similar series of concentric rings can be found on Ilkley Moor in the neighbouring county of Yorkshire. There they look even more like manifesting plasma lightforms.
The other important discovery at Long Meg and Her Daughters was the fact that the Long Meg monolith bears the uncanny resemblance to a human head complete with large nose, seen on the righthand side, a carved mouth, an eye created by one of the cup and ring marks, and even an elongated cranium eccentuated by a tall headdress. Take a look at the photo below and you will see what I mean. If this similacrum is meaningful then it means that the stone was anthropomorphised and was thus probably chosen for erection for this very reason. The question then becomes - who or what does it represent. Is it Long Meg herself? If so, was she some kind of goddess or female shaman? Could it signify a great ancestor, or perhaps even some form of celestial being associated with the manifesting lightforms. There are, of course, no answers, although it is fun to speculate.
Nearby to Castlerigg is Langdale Pikes, which was an important source of raw material for the fashioning of stone axes during Neolithic times. Examples have been found at the stone circle suggesting that there was some relationship between the two sites - perhaps indicating that stone axes made from stone extracted from Langdale Pike were brought to the Castlerigg circle to be blessed prior to use.
I also noticed a prominent mountain on the western horizon that I had a hunch was seen as important to the builders of Long Meg and Her Daughters. It had a saddleback indentation so could have been used for sighting purposes. Its name, we learnt, is Blencathra, which is actually known colloquially as the "Saddleback." Its strange name is made up of Cumbric ‘blain,’ meaning "top" or "summit," and ’cedeair,’ meaning "seat" or "chair," which gives you ‘The summit of the seat like mountain.’ However, more commonly it is known as the ‘Seat of Arthur,’ which connects it with traditions in the Lake District regarding the legendary king of this name. Others translate the name as the Devil's Peak, with the devil in question being Afallac, who was a Cumbric god of the underworld. All this confirms to me that the builders of Castlerigg would have been well aware of this mountain and perhaps saw it as the abode of a local deity or entity that came to be seen in terms of Afallac, a god of the underworld.
Chatting with Giorgio Tsoukalos at the monolith known at Long Meg. Hugh Newman with the camera (pic credit: Nick Burton).
Little Meg stone circle is tiny - no bigger than my front room! It lies some 400 meters from Long Meg and Her Daughters and must have formed part of a much larger ceremonial landscape created during late Neolithic times. My only sense was of a group of people chanting there, waiting to receive some notification that a much greater ceremony or event had begun at the nearby Long Meg and Her Daughters.
The circle is today situated on the edge of a farmer's field, although access to it is easy and legal. It made for a great finish to our day of sight-seeing in Cumbria. We then returned back to Blackpool following a hearty meal at a pub on the canal at Garstang, Lancashire.
Krix inspects the Little Meg stone circle.
The following day I went out on some old style psychic questing with my old friend Debbie Cartwright. We visited various sites including the Mitchells Fold stone circle in Shropshire. As with Castlerigg in Cumbria it seems to reflect an interest in local hills including Stapeley Hill to the north. This was an important source of raw materials for the fashioning of stone axes indicating that Mitchells Fold played a similar role to the manner Castlerigg was connected with the nearby axe center of Langdale Pike. Since their were only a few such axe centers in Britain in Neolithic times Mitchells Fold's presence there has to be significant.
Places where raw materials were sources for the making of stone axes and other stone tools were probably seen in the past as endowed with special qualities, just like Mount Gerizim in what is today the Palestinian West Bank. The inhabitants of the nearby Qesem Cave, as well as another outdoor settlement site named Jaljulia went to the mountain to obtain a special type of Eocene flint to make their stone tools as much as 400,000 years ago. As I demonstrate in Origins of the Gods, Moun Gerizim would appear to have been associated with the manifestation of strange light phenomena since biblical times. I strongly suspect that mysterious light phenomena was one of the reasons why this mountain became so important to these Lower Paleolithic peoples as much as 400,000 years ago.
Similar traditions might well have been associated with Langdale Pike in Cumbria and also Stapeley Hill in Shropshire, both of which would appear to have been served by important stone circles of Neolithic age.
At the Mitchells Fold stone circle.
Gobekli Tepe Builders came from Siberia - new video
A new hypothesis from Turkish archaeologists proposes that the ancestors of the builders behind Gobekli Tepe came from Siberia as much as 30,000 years ago. This is exactly what I say in my books and precisely why I was thrown out of Gobekli Tepe by site manager and lead archaeologist Dr Lee Clare in 2018 for peddling what he called "your lies and pseudoscience." Now I am being proved correct big time.
Not only is this new hypothesis regarding the origins of Gobekli Tepe exactly what I have been trying to get across in my books, culminating in Denisovan Origins (2020) co-authored with Gregory L Little , but the greater implications of this realization is that this high culture did indeed originate among the Denisovan-modern human hybrid groups in Siberia and Mongolia to the south. A virtual paper trail of blade tool production can be traced from the Denisova Cave circa 45,000 years ago down through Mongolia and then westwards into SW Asia via the Russian Steppe.
It is this that I have been trying to tell people since my book Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods came out in 2014. What this shows is that the incoming shamanic elite responsible for Gobekli Tepe had its origins thousands of miles to the east in what is today the Urals and beyond this into Siberia.
Now various Turkish archaeologists are proposing this same hypothesis. I don't mind that they are doing this and ignoring my research since it independently confirms my research. More important is that my theories are today being taken seriously, meaning that we do now have to at least consider the possibility that the incredibly sophisticated human population known as the Denisovans are important to the foundations of civilization.
Have a great July. I shall announcing a very special book project on the 23rd of this month. Watch out for that.
EVENTS AND TOURS FROM
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September 24/26, 2022: Ancient Civilizations Event, Gaiasphere, Boulder, Colorado. Andrew Collins is key-note speaker at this Ancient Civilizations event to accompany the successive GaiaTV show of this name. Clicked for more information.
October 5: Andrew will be special guest at the Southend UFO Group meeting at the Balmoral Centre, Balmoral Road, Southend Essex SS0 6AU, UK, talking about the nature of UFOs. He will explain their connection with ancient aliens, multidimensional environments, transdimensional beings, portal locations, plasma manifestations, and quantum entanglement. Entry is from 7pm onwards for a 7.30pm start. Tickets on the door. £5 per person. For more information click here.
May 15-27, 2023: M E G A L I T H O M A N I A PRESENTS Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe Tour. May 15-27, 2023 (13 days/12 nights) Explore the Mysteries of Turkey with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth. Hosted by Andrew Collins, author of Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, with Megalithomaniac Hugh Newman, author of Earth Grids, Giants on Record and Stonehenge, and "Megalithic Maiden" JJ Ainsworth, a leading authority on ancient symbolism. Click for full details
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September 2022
September 24/26: Ancient Civilizations Event, Gaiasphere, Boulder, Colorado. Andrew Collins is key-note speaker at this Ancient Civilizations event to accompany the successive GaiaTV show of this name. Clicked for more information.
October 2022
October 5: Andrew will be special guest at the Southend UFO Group meeting at the Balmoral Centre, Balmoral Road, Southend Essex SS0 6AU, UK, talking about the nature of UFOs. He will explain their connection with ancient aliens, multidimensional environments, transdimensional beings, portal locations, plasma manifestations, and quantum entanglement. Entry is from 7pm onwards for a 7.30pm start. Tickets on the door. £5 per person. For more information click here.
May 2023
M E G A L I T H O M A N I A
PRESENTS
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe Tour
May 15-27, 2023(13 days/12 nights)
Explore the Mysteries of Turkey
with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth
with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth
Hosted by Andrew Collins, author of Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, with Megalithomaniac Hugh Newman, author of Earth Grids, Giants on Record and Stonehenge, and special guest from the USA, JJ Ainsworth, a leading authority on ancient symbolism.
M E G A L I T H O M A N I A
PRESENTS
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe Tour
May 15-27, 2022 (13 days/12 nights)
Explore the Mysteries of Turkey
with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth
with Andrew Collins, Hugh Newman and J.J. Ainsworth
Hugh Newman, left, and Andrew Collins, right,
with Graham Hancock at Gobekli Tepe.
Hosted by Andrew Collins, author of Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, with Megalithomaniac Hugh Newman, author of Earth Grids, Giants on Record, and Stonehenge, and "Megalithic Maiden" JJ Ainsworth, a leading authority on ancient symbolism.
The breathtaking plains and steppes of eastern Turkey, the traditional Garden of Eden or terrestrial Paradise, was the setting for the Neolithic revolution and the rise of civilization.
We visit some of the world’s most exciting archaeological sites including Göbekli Tepe, the oldest stone temple complex and now a World Heritage Site, and Karahan Tepe, a newly excavated site from the same era, as well as numerous other Tas Tepeler sites that are currently under excavation.
The new Sanliurfa Archaeological Museum has hundreds of artefacts from Göbekli Tepe, Nevali Çori and other Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites.
We also explore the ancient city of Harran, and Çatal Höyük, the world’s first city. We visit the city of Konya, home of the Whirling Dervishes; Alaca Hoyuk and Hattusa that have incredible megalithic polygonal masonry similar to Peru, along with Sanliurfa, the ancient Christian city of Edessa, birthplace of Abraham; and the traditional area of the Garden of Eden, home of the Watchers and Nephilim of the book of Enoch, and the Annunaki of Sumerian myth and legend.
We will also visit the huge underground city of Derinkiyu as well as the Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia.
Andrew, Hugh and JJ will be presenting evening lectures throughout the tour, and discussing new theories and research on many of the sites visited.
Turkey Tour Costs:
Main Tour: $4995 USD (meet Istanbul)
based on double occupancy
based on double occupancy
Single occupancy supplement: $700 USD
(tour deposit: $400 USD)
Please email info@megalithomania.co.uk for more info
See below for more information on all the sites
featured on this comprehensive tour of Turkey
featured on this comprehensive tour of Turkey
Hittite warriors at Yazilikaya, near Hattusa.
Left, stone gateway at Hattusa. Right, Hattusa's green nephrite omphalos.
Left, the Sphinx gateway at Alaca Höyük. Right, polygonal wall at Alaca Höyük.
We visit the ruins of the Hittite centre of Alaca Höyük. See its polygonal walls, similar to those found at archaeological sites in Peru, Easter Island and Egypt. See the pre-Hittite royal graves of Alaca Höyük's founding Hurrian elite, and learn of their possible origins beyond the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian Steppe. Also visit the immense ruins of the Hittite capital Hattusa. See its incredible stone walls and gateways, as well as its omphalos stone of polished green nephrite. Visit also the nearby rock shrine of Yazilikaya, famous for its carved reliefs of Hittite kings and deities.
Left, the Red Valley, Cappadocia. Right, fairy chimneys near Goreme.
Left and right, Derinkuyu's underground city.
Visit the mysterious underground city of Derinkuyu, thought to be as much as 13,000 years old, and see the area's famous fairy chimneys and lunar-like landscape. Optional balloon rides will be available when staying there.
Upper left and right, rock chimneys and churches near Goreme. Below left, Templar crosses on rock church at Goreme.
Below right, shamanic birdman in Gorome rock church.
Left, the archaeological site of Çatal Höyük. Right, the Whirling Dervishes at Konya.
See the 10,000-year-old Neolithic city of Asikli Höyük(if open to visitors) and also the 9,000-year-old city of Çatal Höyük on the Konya plain. See the areas of excavation and visit the local museum. At Konya see the Whirling Dervishes' mesmeric dance display.
Left, Nimrod's Castle, Sanliurfa. Right, the Pools of Abraham, Sanliurfa.
Journey on to the ancient city of Sanliurfa, traditional birthplace of the prophet Abraham and seat of the biblical tyrant Nimrod, where we begin part two of the tour.
Left, Göbekli Tepe's Enclosure D. Right, Enclosure D's Vulture Stone (Pillar 43).
We visit Göbekli Tepe, officially the world's oldest temple complex, built by the founders of civilization nearly 12,000 years ago. We visit also the ancient city of Harran, the birthplace of astrology and hermetica.
Left, the ruins of the Paradise Mosque, Harran. Right, beehive huts at Harran.
Visit the ruins of the Paradise mosque with its mesmeric astronomical tower, the city's Seljik period castle built on the site of the Sabian temple of the moon god Sin, and climb the city's 8,000-year-old prehistoric mound. Visit a local shop and café set within a courtyard surrounded by historic beehive shaped houses.
Above and below, left and right, exhibits in Sanliurfa's new archaeological museum.
Sanliurfa's spectacular museum of archaeology contains breathtaking displays of objects and pillars from Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe as well as other Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Arabic era sites in the region. The tour also takes in Sanliurfa's Pools of Abraham close to which is the cave said to be the birthplace of the great prophet. The city's famous bazaar and suq market are a must!
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Our journey continues eastwards into the Tektek Mountains where we will visit Karahan Tepe, Göbekli Tepe's sister site, where some of the most extraordinary discoveries anywhere in the world are being made at this time. We explore its astronomically aligned stone enclosures and see its estimated 250 T-shaped pillars. Many of the site's more portable carvings are now on display at Sanliurfa's breathtaking archaeological museum.
 Karahan Tepe's Structure AD, also known as the Great Ellipse. Note its extraordinary elliptical geometry, first noted by chartered engineer Rodney Hale and Andrew Collins in 2021. |
Both Hugh Newman and Andrew Collins have been visiting Karahan Tepe for many years and have developed a strong knowledge of its Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture, in particular their interest in the cult of the serpent and celestial alignments involving the sun, Milky Way and Cygnus constellation.
The ancient Turkish city of Mardin (Credit: Wiki Commons Agreement 2021).
After leaving the area of Sanliurfa the tour group will journey onward to the beautiful ancient city of Mardin, where we visit various sites of historical and mystical importance. It will be a chance to comtemplate and reflect on what has been seen and experienced across the past two weeks before finally heading out to Nemrut Dag mountain in Adiyaman province.
On the way we visit the Atatürk Dam and see the Euphrates river. We visit also the Karakus tumulus, built by the Commagene king Mithridites II for his mother Isas. We inspect its strange columnal gateways and pillars, and view its alignments into the local landscape. Continue to Hotel Euphrates and before a sunset journey by vehicle to the base of Nemrut Dag. Climb its steps to reach the mausoleum of Antiochus III built in 62 BC. See its amazing pyramid of pebble stones and the strange stone heads of eagles, gods and kings that eternally gaze out over this mysterious landscape of the dead.
Left and right, the mountaintop mausoluem of Antiochus III on the summit of Nemrut Dag (Mount Nimrod).
The final journey will be to Adiyaman airport and the return flight to Istanbul.
Turkey Tour Costs:
Main Tour: $4995 USD (meet Istanbul)
based on double occupancy
based on double occupancy
Single occupancy supplement: $700 USD
(tour deposit: $400 USD)
Please email info@megalithomania.co.uk for more info
Buy Andrew Collins's book
Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods
READ ABOUT WHO BUILT GÖBEKLI TEPE, WHEN AND WHY.
For more information on Göbekli Tepe:
Andrew defines Göbekli Tepe's cosmic blueprint, showing that it is aligned to the Milky Way's Dark Rift and the bright star Deneb in Cygnus.
Fig-mulberry tree marked the summit of Göbekli Tepe.
