Episode #281: Origins of Civilization

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Summary

With our trip to Turkey coming soon, we sit down to record this episode with Gobekli Tepe on our minds, and this leads to a discussion about the origins of civilization. What came first, the temple, or civilization? How do hunter gatherer people become farmers and ranchers?

Obviously, we don't have the answers. But we work through our thoughts in this episode, and it will be interesting to see how much we learn, and how that will change what we think now, after we see Gobekli Tepe for ourselves.

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0:00.0	Origins of Civilization. You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.1	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons, and monsters and serpents.
0:23.6	This is Brothers of the Serpent podcast, and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science,
0:30.5	where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atopause plateau.
0:35.5	I see the sepulopod got moved.
0:39.1	Yes, it is now on the mantle.
0:40.9	It is on the mantle.
0:45.3	So this ought to be an interesting episode.
0:48.3	There's a couple of things that I think we should talk about.
0:50.7	So I was thinking about...
0:56.7	First, we should introduce the watcher.
0:59.2	He is actually here with us and there are giant fans of the watcher who hate us
1:03.3	because we don't ever introduce him when he's not here.
1:09.0	How's it going, watcher?
1:11.2	Welcome. It's going great, Watcher? Welcome.
1:11.9	It's going great, fellas, and let me set these fans straight.
1:15.8	All right?
1:17.7	Russ and Kyle make extreme efforts to move things around so that I can be here,
1:22.8	but I work a job where my schedule sucks.
1:26.2	And I guarantee you 95% of the time, when I'm not here, it's entirely my fault.
1:33.3	Or the fault of your job, not your fault.
1:35.9	Yeah, I mean, like, you know, life happens.
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