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Re:Göbekli Tepe by naringas on Friday January 29, 2021 @05:55AM (#25956061)
does it look normal sized? I ask because I know from pictures and the internet that (for instance) Petra is not human sized
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Re:Göbekli Tepe by simonh on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:07AM (#25956434)
It doesn't look particularly outsized.

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-to-mark-turkis...

But then how many cathedrals or major monuments are built to human scale? One of my favourite examples is from a temple to Ishtar in Syria:

https://romeartlover.tripod.com/Aindara5.jpg

Those footprints are about a metre long.

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by mkl on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:34AM (#25956588)
The last picture is now a useless "image hosted by tripod" placeholder. There is a picture here: https://www.alamy.com/ain-dara-iron-age-syrohittite-temple-f...

(There is a huge amount of conspiracy nonsense coming up when I search for this stuff.)

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Re:Göbekli Tepe by ncmncm on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:49AM (#25959339)
Very obviously not actual footprints.

But they do tell us something concrete about how the builders who carved them imagined their gods.

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