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Ishtar's Gate has come into being because our understanding about our distant ancestors has changed in recent years. The image of the grunting, monosyllabic cave man is passé. We now realise that not only did our ancestors exist at a much earlier time than we originally thought, we are coming to understand that they were extremely intelligent and in touch with a greater and deeper spiritual reality than the limited viewpoint that we are left with today.

There is evidence that early man was making fire and tools for hundreds of thousands of years before he was supposed to have been - according to the established academic viewpoint. And it is inconceivable that he didn't use boats, given the easily discernible breadcrumb trails of archaeological artefacts, genes, languages and shamanic practises across the globe. Let alone a delicate flute from 40,000 years passed, cave paintings and Venus statuettes, which all point to his artistic and spiritual sensibilities. However,

"Because we have separated humanity from nature, subject from object, values from analysis, knowledge from myth, and universities from the universe, it is enormously difficult for anyone but a poet or a mystic to understand what is going on in the holistic and mythopoetic thought of Ice Age humanity. The very language we use to discuss the past speaks of tools, hunters, and men, when every statue and painting we discover cries out to us that this Ice Age humanity was a culture of art, the love of animals, and women." The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, by William Irwin Thompson

The evidence for this is there for all to see in copious and painstakingly thorough research. But unfortunately, there are people who are not interested in evidence that doesn't fit the standard (Darwinian) religio/political view. Many of them control the scientific peer review process, discrediting viewpoints they find unacceptable to the status quo.

So this is the reason that Ishtar's Gate exists.