Ove Posted December 8, 2021 #1 Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) Ancient bathing pools ? Edited December 8, 2021 by Ove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted December 8, 2021 #2 Share Posted December 8, 2021 I guess that's possible but I wonder how they'd be drained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted December 8, 2021 #3 Share Posted December 8, 2021 41 minutes ago, and then said: I guess that's possible but I wonder how they'd be drained? Evaporation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenemet Posted December 8, 2021 #4 Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) I wonder how they'd be filled. They're not exactly water tight nor do they seem to show signs of water. Plus... kinda deep, I think. And then there's the question of why a seminomadic people would build a bathing place far away from everything when they regularly bathed in rivers and lakes and ponds near their own sites. Edited December 8, 2021 by Kenemet 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted December 9, 2021 #5 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Kenemet said: I wonder how they'd be filled. They're not exactly water tight nor do they seem to show signs of water. Plus... kinda deep, I think. And then there's the question of why a seminomadic people would build a bathing place far away from everything when they regularly bathed in rivers and lakes and ponds near their own sites. Oh boyyy, here we go with the logic and common-sense stuff again. I guess you're going to say the pyramids weren't bounce houses either. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanos5150 Posted December 9, 2021 #6 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Ove said: Ancient bathing pools? Gobekli Tepe, no, but why "bathing"? Looking at this photo there is a channel that leads to the "pool", basins I think are more apt, on the left which may have served a drainage or supply purpose. I hate to say it, but curiously these pillars are supposedly penises and the basin from above with drainage "tail" looks like spermatozoa which similar motifs have been noted on pillars and at least one bust. Not sure what that feature on the left of the left basin is. Regardless, maybe they were ritualistic perhaps having to do with fertility and/or cisterns for water collection. Edited December 9, 2021 by Thanos5150 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted December 9, 2021 #7 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Interesting, and I guess anything is possible. But, only about the 10% of Göbekli Tepe has been excavated so far. There are at least twenty or more such a circular structures below the surface. This would mean Göbekli Tepe is/was one of the largest bathing complex in the history of a mankind. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted December 9, 2021 #8 Share Posted December 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Thanos5150 said: basin from above with drainage "tail" looks like spermatozoa When was the first time anybody could see the shape of a spermatozoa? After the first microscope I think. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 9, 2021 #9 Share Posted December 9, 2021 14 hours ago, Ove said: Ancient bathing pools ? Maybe they were houses. From an old thread: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/231550-merged-gobekli-tepe/#comment-4408835 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted December 9, 2021 #10 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Only if they were built by archaeologists in the past 2 decades What appear to be "pools" are simply the limited areas that have been excavated. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted December 9, 2021 Author #11 Share Posted December 9, 2021 17 hours ago, and then said: I guess that's possible but I wonder how they'd be drained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted December 9, 2021 Author #12 Share Posted December 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Abramelin said: Maybe they were houses. From an old thread: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/231550-merged-gobekli-tepe/#comment-4408835 Roof for rain water harvesting ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted December 9, 2021 Author #13 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) Looks like it is a multipurpose ancient rain water storage system, carved out of a solid rock. Edited December 9, 2021 by Ove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanos5150 Posted December 9, 2021 #14 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Tatetopa said: When was the first time anybody could see the shape of a spermatozoa? After the first microscope I think. Did you see the size of those penises? Note I said "I hate to say it" meaning not something I support but as noted, whatever it represents, it is a similar motif found elsewhere at the Tepe's which some alternative folk liken to a representation of sperm. There was a whole sentence there. And, again, the basin is full of penises. Edited December 9, 2021 by Thanos5150 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted December 9, 2021 Author #15 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) Edited December 9, 2021 by Ove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanos5150 Posted December 9, 2021 #16 Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Ove said: Looks like it is a multipurpose ancient rain water storage system, carved out of a solid rock. You mean like: "Regardless, maybe they were ritualistic perhaps having to do with fertility and/or cisterns for water collection."; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted December 9, 2021 #17 Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Thanos5150 said: Did you see the size of those penises? You see penises, I see chessmen. Think what that might imply. 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 9, 2021 #18 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Ove said: Roof for rain water harvesting ? No, just a roof. I hope you've read what I linked to. And maybe the rest of that 9 years old thread also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 9, 2021 #19 Share Posted December 9, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Thanos5150 said: And, again, the basin is full of penises. You can't be serious, right? Edited to add: Ok, I had Göbekli Tepe in my minds eye. Edited December 9, 2021 by Abramelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 9, 2021 #20 Share Posted December 9, 2021 6 hours ago, Essan said: Only if they were built by archaeologists in the past 2 decades What appear to be "pools" are simply the limited areas that have been excavated. And that is the sanest thing I've read in this thread up to now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted December 9, 2021 #21 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Ancient water harvesting in India. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 10, 2021 #22 Share Posted December 10, 2021 22 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: Ancient water harvesting in India. I doesn't even come close to the Karahan or Göbekli Tepe site. But I assume thàt was the message, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ove Posted December 11, 2021 Author #23 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Cranes stand in water The snakes represents running water Edited December 11, 2021 by Ove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 11, 2021 #24 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Foxes walk on land: 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted December 11, 2021 #25 Share Posted December 11, 2021 (edited) Chickens go "cluck, cluck" cows go "moo", piggies go "oink, oink" how 'bout you? Of all the items that both sites could be, I think swimming/bathing pools is at the very far end of the spectrum of possibility. Edited December 11, 2021 by Trelane 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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