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LightningBuck · 1w
I love this episode, but you are missing something about the tower of babel that would actually strengthen your point: It is likely they were building a ziggurat style tower. This was the type of tem...
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Fascinating. I remember reading about the god/slave race relationship in The 12th Planet. That was a Sumarían creation myth, right?

There was so much more I wanted to cover in that episode but my work is crazy right now and it was all I could do to get a 12 minute episode out on time. Maybe I’ll research more about the Tower of Babel and revisit this one at some point.
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ethfi · 1w
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LightningBuck · 1w
I was actually primarily thinking about the Enuma Elish. But you are right, according to my Ai there are some Sumarian texts presenting the same relationship (“Enki and Ninmah,” “Creation of the Pickaxe,”) and also an Akkadian story (Atra-Hasis). It really seems like the predominant world vi...