Report from RV session on "What was the mythical Tower of Babel described in the Bible and what did the fall and confusion of languages described there really consist of?"
According to my perception, it was a shiny, metal physical object, the size of a building, carrying some universal message in many languages (should this be considered hitting the target 🤔?). It came from an older civilization, it reminds me of the Emerald Tablet or (much later) the Rosetta Stone. There were also images of pyramids in Egypt (or the Sumerian Ziggurat?), but as a similar function or symbolism. Although considering the Great Pyramid of Giza: it itself is a great and universal geometric and astronomical message, so maybe the Tower of Babel was something similar or even identical? I understand "confusion of languages" as the fall of one highly developed civilization and the emergence of many smaller and more "primitive" ones in its place. As the fall of the object, I see the rise in the water level, and finally it was deliberately destroyed by a less advanced descendant people, perhaps for religious reasons.
It was not a typical city, because I do not sense any residential functions there, which is why my vision differs from the biblical one. This does not surprise me at all, because many biblical accounts were copied and transformed from much older texts, e.g. Sumerian, for example the vision of the flood (Epic of Gilgamesh). We can therefore assume that many stories are widely changed and cannot be translated literally.
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