Deforestation, stars and straight lines

It’s not easy to find straight lines in wild nature.

If we see straight lines they may be added to wild nature by humans. They do so, as is commonly thought,  since they started with agriculture and made irrigation canals, stone houses and storage buildings about 14,000 years ago.

But before they added their stone constructions with straight lines, to provide for more food and shelter, they started to make, it seems, stone buildings out of spiritual motivations.

Instead of just experiencing spirits or energies in natural objects such as trees, mountains, rivers, they built a temple on top of a hill, perhaps to get closer to spirits they felt in the moon, the sun and stars. This shift may be related to widespread deforestation that occurred in West Asia at the time and made the sky more visible during the days and nights.

The oldest human construction found so far shows little proof that people had agriculture or stone houses to live in. At the pillars they did not carve out wheat plants or farmer tools but wild animals that they encountered in the open landscape.

Likely, these humans were gathering and hunting in the local area, while building a sanctuary on the hill to express their felt connection the now everywhere visible stars high up in the air.

Their place is in present-day Turkey and called Göbekli Tepe.