Gobekli Tepe

You are in the desert.

After a day of suffocating heat, the sun begins to descend towards the horizon, and the wind is now pleasant on your skin.

You can finally remove the sweaty dirty keffiyeh.

In a mirror, you see seven figures in the distance, belly dancing.

Each of them has anklets, from which small bells hang down. The rattles rustle on the sand, drawing a large geometric pattern.

From above, it looks like a mandala, but it is in fact a talisman city.

The dancers move around a stone.

They slowly approach one another, almost fondling, until the drawing on the sand takes shape, becoming more and more defined.

The stone gushes when the geometric shape is complete.

The drops bounce on metal darboukas, creating a magmatic rhythm, and instantly vitrifying as they fall into the sand.

When the sun is tangent to the horizon, the seven dancers are absorbed by their rattles, which come to life and start to writhe as fourteen small snakes, intertwining to form a gem.

The stone is now set in the jewel, becoming a subjective object, a clot of matter that appears different depending on each subject who looks at it.

The jewel remains motionless in the centre of the drawing throughout the sun’s transit across the horizon.

As soon as the last ray of light vanishes in the sand, a violent earthquake manifests with full force.

Instead of annihilating everything in its path, the earthquake brings about an orderly collapse:

By shattering, it gives rise to the talisman city drawn on the sand by the dancers.

What was once the soil’s surface is now the highest point of the new stone and light architecture formed by the earthquake.

The roar of the earth comes brief, but its echo will last for hours.

The drawing on the sand represented the hexadimensional architecture of the talisman city, where the here-and-now is in every point.

The speed of light is no longer conveying the distance with which the self perceives the world.

Each subject having materially reached the speed of light realizes the MEST fusion(matter-energy-space-time) which allows full ubiquity.

When traversed by the wind, the geometries of the talisman-city produce strong hums, spreading as vibrations transmitted through the air.

These vibrations are The Law,

the voice that regulates and harmonizes the rhythm of individual and collective life of the city.

The political system re-transits from anthropocentric to divinatory,

as in the days of Gobekli Tepe*,

where the construction of a monumental sanctuary occurred 5000 years before the advent of the Sumerian culture was the reason for the construction of the first city.

*In Gobekli Tepe was found the oldest example of a stone temple, begun around 9500 BC. Its erection affected hundreds of men over three to five centuries.The oldest architectural remains previously known were the Babylonian ziggurat, dating from 5000 years later. Around 8000 B.C. the site was deliberately abandoned and voluntarily buried with soil brought by man. Excavations brought back to light a monumental megalithic sanctuary, consisting of an artificial hill bordered by walls of rough dry stone. The presence of a monumental structure shows that even prior to the development of agriculture and in the context of an economy of hunting and harvesting, the men possessed sufficient means to erect monumental structures. According to the director of the excavation, the social organization engaged in the creation of this structure, favored a planned exploitation of food resources and the development of early agricultural practices.Professor of archaeology at Stanford University Ian Hodder said about the site: “Many people think it changes everything…It overturns the whole apple cart. All of our theories were wrong. Theories on the ‘ Neolithic revolution ‘ have always supported the thesis that between 10 and 12 thousand years ago farmers and ranchersbegun to create villages, cities , specialized jobs, writing, and all that we know of ancient civilizations. However, one of the highlights of the old theories sees the construction of places of worship only after the creation of the city. Today, differently, it seems that religion appeared before life was civilized and organized in urban centers; being rather the primary engine for the creation of the city.”