Burj Tower and Tower of Babel: Similarities
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Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מגדל בבל Migdal Bavel Arabic: برج بابل Burj Babil) according to chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built at the city of Babel, the Hebrew name for Babylon (Akkadian Babilu). According to the biblical account, a united humanity, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, took part in the building after the Great Flood; Babel was also called the "beginning" of Nimrod's kingdom. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens."(וְרֹאשׁוֹ בַשָּׁמַיִם) However, the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was dedicated to the glory of man, with a motive of making a 'name' for the builders: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4). God, seeing what the people were doing, confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. [It had been God's original purpose for mankind to grow and fill the earth. In the Hebrew scriptures Nimrod is portrayed as a 'mighty hunter'.
God that was very scary. Every detail of the story was perfectly similar. Even the 'confound their languages' climax ring true to the recent problems the 'tower' is facing. Veeeery scary.
It is also known as the Ziggurat of Marduk and parts of it still stands today in Iraq. Around Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad.
US forces had a military base "Camp Alpha" on ancient Babylonian ruins following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, under the command of General James T. Conway of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
The Marduk ziggurat was set within the vast sacred precinct on the southern end of the town of Babylon, surrounded by the river, a canal, a doubl e wall and a proessional way.
Twenty-five gates are situated on each side, which make in all one hundred. The doors of these gates, which are of wonderful size, are cast in bronze.Ishtar Gate is the most famous.
The tower was wider than it was high, more like a mountain than a tower. He also quotes unnamed authors who say that the spiral path was so wide that it contained lodgings for workers and animals, and other authors who claim that the path was wide enough to have fields for growing grain for the animals used in the construction.
Its Sumerian name was Etemenanki "The Foundation of Heaven and Earth." It was probably built by Hammurabi. Archaeologists discovered a core consisting of the ruins of previous ziggurats which had been levelled and enlarged serval times, before Nebuchadnezzar added a casing of burnt brick 15 m thick.
According to the Bible....1/3rd was blown away, 1/3rd caught fire and 1/3rd got sunk into the earth (might be due to the weight). So what is remaining is only a third of what was once the tallest tower man made.
The Book of Jubilees mentions the tower's height as being 5433 cubits and 2 palms, or nearly 2.5 kilometers almost 3 times the height of Burj Dubai!!! It was built like a mountain (Ziggarut).
Another intresting thing similar to Gulf Construction Industry was Human Labour and cost of Raw Materials.
That builders had no value for the Human Labour to such an extent if a person fell down the builders did not mind it but they could not bear a single brick falling down the tower.
For more interesting reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/babel.html
It is the most holiest place and a place for Pilgrimage for all the Black-Magic & Masonic people. Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad
I think it's again the sign of the times. At the time, being 'round' was the in-thing. I'm still a man of those times, I'm still round, hehe.
but times have changed. People are going by the adage, 'lean and mean'. Everything from people in the fashion industry to the latest jet planes are leaner and meaner and not round. So THAT babel (of a few 1000 years a go) could very well be THIS babel, in Dubai.
Just thinking out loud, hehe! But seriously, at SOME point of time, I've felt the eerie similarity. But then again, it might be just me (and Heero_yuy in this case...)
Now then can we expect the Emiraiti population waking up one fine morning and speaking different languages like mandarin, tagalog, swahili, bantu, hindi and a few people may retain Arabic.