February 20, 2009

Babylon the bride

“The tower of Babel was not a myth, it was a real place“. For context, see a clusterchat that has been expanding somewhere else around here.

posted by in art, history, literature, video | * | 5 comments 

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  1. Cindy Scroggins on February 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    This makes my teeth itch.

  2. Cooper Renner on February 20th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Well, now, there’s a difference between saying the ‘tower of Babylon’ (a building) is not mythical and saying the story of the confusion of the languages and Nimrod is ‘true’. Troy is not a myth either, but I don’t think Zeus was actually involved in any military engagements there.

  3. Lucy Foley on February 20th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    yeah, I think this video is pretty clear about that. It’s about the artefacts from an ancient culture, and the excitement of encountering them. I find the word ‘ziggurat’ very exciting.

  4. Lucy Foley on February 20th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    Troy is an interesting example because of the interweaving of history, myth and religion, the religion of the time becoming subsequent myth, and how it must have been used at the time to understand what was going on. And thus, it’s a gateway into that consciousness.

  5. Sheila Ryan on February 20th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Every place I’ve lived (and there’ve been a bundle), it’s come to feel like Schliemann’s Troy to me. Even the places I inhabited for four weeks.

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