Laird ScrantonPoint of Origin
Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World's Cosmologies
Laird Scranton is an independent software designer who became interested in Dogon mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient myth, language, and cosmology since 1997 and has been a lecturer at Colgate University. He also appears in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt DVD series. He lives in Albany, New York.
Foreword by Isaac Scranton
Introduction
1 The Ancient Cosmological/Civilizing Plan
2 Symbolic Constructs of the Cosmology
3 Constructs of the Language of Cosmology
4 Gobekli Tepe and Zep Tepi
5 Archaic Temple Names
6 Turkish and Archaic Word Forms
7 The Sakti Cult in Orissa
8 Sakti References in Ancient Egypt
9 Ascension
10 The Concept of Untying
11 The Heliacal Rise of Sirius
12 Ancestors, Dual Arms, and the Concept of the Embrace
13 Defining a Temple
14 The Bridge of Sirah
15 The Cosmological Role of Ganesha
16 Elephantine, the Nile Inundation,and the God Hapy
17 Tamil Word Forms
18 A Rationale for the Civilizing Plan
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
