The Origins Of Tower Of Babel !!!
TOWER OF BABEL
The Bible places
the events of its Tower of Babel story around 1700 BCE. According to
Genesis before this time "the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech". In reality there were many spoken and written languages prior to
the Tower of Babel events.
The oldest known
text in the Sanskrit language, the Rigveda, dates earlier than 1700BCE.
Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to about 3100 BCE and Sumerian writings date as
far back as 3200 BCE.
The Bible also places the date of construction on the Tower
of Babel roughly 100 years after the great flood. Saying a
population could go from 6 people (Noah and his wife don't count, they didn't
have any more children) to enough people to build the Tower of Babel as it is
described in the Bible is absurd.
This tower was so great that it threatened God, so it must have been greater that the pyramid of Khufu which took 30,000 people to build. Even a growth rate of 500%, which is absurd beyond all imagination, would only produce about half the required people to even begin to think about such a construction project. Don’t you think that it’s a foolish tale told in a most absurd manner?
This tower was so great that it threatened God, so it must have been greater that the pyramid of Khufu which took 30,000 people to build. Even a growth rate of 500%, which is absurd beyond all imagination, would only produce about half the required people to even begin to think about such a construction project. Don’t you think that it’s a foolish tale told in a most absurd manner?
Like Always it has been stole by ancient Hebrew scribers. Its original Sumerian name is E-TEMEN-AN-KI meaning
"House of the foundation of heaven on earth".
According
to the Babylonian epic Enûma êliš the
G-d Marduk defended the other gods against the diabolical monster Tiamat. After
he had killed it, he brought order to the cosmos, built the Esagila, which was
the center of the new world, and created mankind.
The Etemenanki
was next to the Esagila, and this means that the temple tower was erected at
the center of the world, as the axis of the universe. Here, a straight line
connected earth and heaven. This aspect of Babylonian cosmology is echoed in
the Biblical story, where the builders say "let us build a tower whose top
may reach unto heaven".
There were
several rooms: Marduk shared his room with his wife Sarpanitum, a second room
offered accommodation to the scribe-god Nabû and his wife Tashmetu, and there
were rooms for the water god Ea, the god of light Nusku, the god of heaven Anu,
and finally Enlil, Marduk's predecessor as chief of the Mesopotamian pantheon.
Robert Maschran
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