At Sayburç in southeastern Turkey, Neolithic reliefs include a man apparently holding his genitals between two leopards and a large-bull scene interpreted as bull leaping. The video presents this as the earliest known bull-leaping example and argues that the enclosure's roughly 348° axis links Sayburç with Göbekli Tepe, Deneb and the Cygnus Rift around 9000 BC, reflecting a Neolithic 'sky world' belief. The sky-alignment explanation is the presenter's archaeoastronomical theory.
The video presents Sayburç's bull scene as the earliest known bull-leaping example
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Key facts
- Sayburç's Neolithic reliefs include a male figure apparently holding his genitals between two leopards.
- A second relief depicts a large bull and human figures; one figure is interpreted as being in a bull-leaping pose.
- The video presents the Sayburç scene as the earliest known bull-leaping example; the Middle Bronze Age and Minoan bull-leaping art in the search results is later.
- The video says the enclosure axis is roughly 348° (12° west of north) and links it with Göbekli Tepe, Deneb, the Cygnus Rift and a Neolithic 'sky world'; this is the presenter's archaeoastronomical theory.
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