![]() ![]() If you divide the circle of the heavens by the movement of the sun through the traditional ancient year of 360 days, then you have a circle of 360 degrees, the basis for our modern system. People needed to divide them up so that they could be studied and discussed. There were different ways of dividing up the heavens. Some planets were far away, some were closer, and they appeared to stay in their respective ‘layers’. People could also see that some planets were evidently closer than others. People could see that the seven appeared to travel in a certain zone in the sky, what we call the ‘ circle of the zodiac’. Without modern telescopes, ancient people could see the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with the naked eye. In fact, several places have been suggested as possible sites for the biblical Tower of Babel, with Etemenanki being the most likely candidate in my mind.Ĭlair Jordan shared a slate found in Etemenanki that looks like a blueprint for the construction:Īerial view of the Ziggurat remains in Etemenanki (source: Wikipedia) Heaven and Earthīut why was Etemenanki built the way it was? Barbara Warrum has an interesting theory. The towering ziggurat was reported to have 7 layers, one layer for each of the 7 known planets of ancient times (the sun and moon were counted as planets).Įtemenanki meant ‘ heaven and earth’, and it was seen as a three-dimensional model of the heavens and the earth. When someone asked on Quora if there are any traces of the biblical Tower of Babel, I bet they didn’t expect the diverse answers they got, ranging from dismissive to mystical. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.” That is why it was called Babel-because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 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 otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.īut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. “Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ![]()
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