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24 Nov, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Thread: Wall painting from a house in Çatalhöyük (7500-6500 BC) showing a fruit tree and ibexes/wild goats...From "Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants" by Lincoln Taiz, Lee Taiz

Tree of life with ibexes, goats of rain? Most definitely...

Why goat of rain?
Because Bezoar Ibex goat, which is the kind that live(d) in the Çatalhöyük area, start their mating season in Oct/Nov. Their mating season is characterised by vicious male goat fights. The head banging can be heard from miles away, so it is difficult to miss...
And in Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Anatolia, Middle East, Iran, Central Asia, this is when the rains arrive after hot dry summer and autumn...The rains that are source of life, arrive when Ibexes start mating...Hence goat of rain and tree of life...Çatalhöyük climate chart...
Goat of rain from Gobekli Tepe (9500-8000BC)..With zig zag line symbolizing flowing water...
In the area of Gobekli Tepe, the rains arrive when ibex goats start mating, Oct/Nov...
Decorated stone vessel from Ayanlar Hoyuk (9000BC) with, again, goat of rain and zig zag lines...
Ayanlar Hoyuk (Urfa) climate chart...Again the rains arrive when Ibex, goat of rain starts mating...

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