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Karahan Tepe's Solstice Light, the Watchers & Ancient Beer with Hugh Newman — Part 3 of 3 | Classics Rotation
Hugh Newman describes watching winter-solstice sunrise light move across a carved stone head at Karahan Tepe and argues the builders were sky watchers. If you are curious who he thinks built these 11,000-year-old sites, from the Watchers of the Book of Enoch to the Sumerian Duku mound, and what beer and psychoactive plants may have to do with it, this closing part gets into it.
It opens with the host asking about Hugh's Turkey trips; the tour details are from the original recording. Hugh recounts seeing, with JJ Ainsworth on December 20, 2021, light pass through a porthole stone and move from…
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