Skull Cult

[bholder]

What an excellent band name! Scientists have found evidence of a mysterious 'skull cult' in an ancient temple

 

[HaphAsSard]

What an excellent band name! Scientists have found evidence of a mysterious 'skull cult' in an ancient temple

Göbekli Tepe is apparently a huge deal. Earliest known megaliths, earliest known religious site. Some scholars have suggested the Agricultural Revolution in the Fertile Crescent (which, to the best of our knowledge, predated any other such development occurring independently in scattered locations through time and space) started exactly here, possibly triggered by the need to sustain large numbers of people gathered at the site to attend ceremonies and/or to contribute to its expansion. "Ian Hodder of Stanford University said, "Göbekli Tepe changes everything"."
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"David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says: 'Gobekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world.'"
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^ A clickbait title, and peppered with gratuitous reference to Judeo-Christian religion, but an interesting read nonetheless.

 

[bholder]

Göbekli Tepe is apparently a huge deal. Earliest known megaliths, earliest known religious site. Some scholars have suggested the Agricultural Revolution in the Fertile Crescent (which, to the best of our knowledge, predated any other such development occurring independently in scattered locations through time and space) started exactly here, possibly triggered by the need to sustain large numbers of people gathered at the site to attend ceremonies and/or to contribute to its expansion. "Ian Hodder of Stanford University said, "Göbekli Tepe changes everything"."
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"David Lewis-Williams, professor of archaeology at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, says: 'Gobekli Tepe is the most important archaeological site in the world."
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^ A clickbait title, and peppered with gratuitous reference to Judeo-Christian religion, but an interesting read nonetheless.

and it's still a good band name, too!

 

[HaphAsSard]

and it's still a good band name, too!

Flows better than Goe-bek-LEE Tep-PAY itself for sure. Its meaning ("Potbelly Hill") OTOH has potential. Almost sounds like a Fats Domino pastiche...

 

[tangentmusic]

Skull Cult sounds too much like this band.
There was Southern Death Cult.
Then Death Cult.
Then simply the Cult.
Great band.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Can we just shorten it to Skult®?

 

[mapleglo]

Ah yes, the skull cult. I am one of the charter members. Here's a small part of our collection in ascending order.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Ah yes, the skull cult. I am one of the charter members. Here's a small part of our collection in ascending order.

The one all the way to the right has your smile!

 

[kesslari]

Thanks for posting @bholder and @HaphAsSard - read the article and then the Wikipedia entry. Really fascinating stuff that is reframing our ideas about how we humans evolved into large organized societies..

 

[fhm555]

Wifey is a fan of skulls and has quite the collection of animal skulls.