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Have you wondered what was going on in those megalithic temples built like mountains? There is a lot of educated and scholarly speculation these days. The more we learn of the antediluvian (pre-flood) world, the more intriguing the story and history of the Earth and its inhabitants. I am most interested in the Tower of Babel. As I've mentioned in other posts, I grew up with folks who didn't mind taking Bible stories at a Sunday school level. Not me. I am a researcher and we are like archeologists. We dig carefully. We read scholars from the past and present, then we process slowly. We connect dots that others may not have seen.
The exact location of the Tower of Babel is uncertain and debated among scholars. According to the biblical account in Genesis, the Tower of Babel was built in the land of Shinar. Shinar is believed to correspond to the ancient region of Sumer, which is located in present-day southern Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq.
Some archaeological evidence suggests that the ancient city of Babylon, which was located in Mesopotamia, may have been associated with the biblical Tower of Babel. Babylon was a major city in ancient Mesopotamia and was known for its impressive ziggurat, (one of many built by Nimrod) a type of stepped tower that was commonly built in Mesopotamia.
Here is what biblical text says about the Tower of Babel: “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the earth.” —Genesis 11:2–4
Genesis 11 seems to leave more unanswered questions than it resolves about the origin of the languages of the world. For example: why build a tower that could reach into heaven? Surely they must have known that was impossible.The tower could only have made a symbolic statement towards heaven. If so, who was the statement intended for, and what was the statement? And did the tower at Babel have any relationship whatsoever to the Sumerian ziggurats that both predated and postdated Babel?
Ziggurats were divine abodes, places where Mesopotamians believed heaven and earth intersected. The nature of this structure makes evident the purpose in building it—to bring the divine down to earth. (See this post) To fully understand this story, one must understand what had been happening before the great flood. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
That passage sought to portray the giant quasi-divine Babylonian culture heroes (the apkallus) who survived the flood as “men of renown” or, more literally, “men of the name [shem].” Those who built the Tower of Babel wanted to do so to “make a name [shem]” for themselves. The building of the Tower of Babel meant perpetuating Babylonian religious knowledge and substituting the rule of Babel’s gods for rule by Yahweh.
And there is so much more. I could go on. But to put it in simple terms, there were powerful gods and demi gods on the earth before the great flood. The Tower of Babel was built AFTER the great flood in an attempt to reconnect with the great gods who had been banned from the earth. This was in order to make a name or once again to create demi gods, the heroes of old. The mighty ones who built megalithic temples and structures all over the earth .
Does it sound bazerko crazy? You bet it does. Do I believe it? All I can say is there sure are a lot of ancient texts that tell a similar story. Am I studying it? Absolutely.
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