The end of the Babylonian tale

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

One of the most popular fairy tales in the world is the myth of the Tower of Babel. It seems that more is known about her than about Gagarin's flight. I think that if on the street you ask random passers-by two questions, for example, who is Karbyshev, and what is the Tower of Babel, then hardly half will answer the first question, but the absolute majority knows about the Babylonian pandemonium.

Most likely, the reason for this phenomenon lies in the natural curiosity of representatives of all tribes and peoples. Everyone is looking for answers to questions about where a person came from, why, why they speak different languages in different countries, and why some peoples have a homeland, while others do not need it, and they live absentmindedly, where there is something to profit from. And the myth of the Tower of Babel allows you to answer some burning questions.

True, not everyone will agree with me in the opinion that such an event never happened in reality. Yes, I myself do not deny that something similar took place in reality, only the interpretation was absolutely illiterate. And a modern person with a standard secondary education simply cannot but doubt the veracity of the legend, but … For some reason this does not happen, and everyone unconditionally believes in historians, theologians and archaeologists. But let's figure out where the wind is blowing from.

Traditionally, it is believed that the first information about the tower of Babel was gleaned from the Old Testament. Let's not be lazy and read what the Bible says:

"one. There was one language and one dialect throughout the whole earth. 2 Moving from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, Let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they had bricks instead of stones, and earthen pitch instead of lime. 4 And they said, Let us build ourselves a city and a tower, its height reaching to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men were building. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, there is one people, and they all have one language; and this is what they began to do, and they will not lag behind what they decided to do; 7 Let us go down and confuse their language there, so that one does not understand the speech of the other. 8 And the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth; and they stopped building the city [and the tower]. 9 Therefore the name was given to him: Babylon, for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them over the whole earth. " (genesis 11: 1-9)

So what can you glean from the nine lines? Where did the details of this event, which take up whole volumes, come from? It turns out that from the dictionaries, the works of A. P. Lopukhin ("Biblical history in the light of the latest research and discoveries") 1902. editions, and Messrs. Luken, ("Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts") (1869), and Lenormant ("Origines de l'histoire"). Where did they get their knowledge about ancient Babylon?

Yes, as usual. It was not without Herodotus, as you might guess, Strabo, Curtius Rufus, and several more "ancient" authors, whose original manuscripts were never seen in the eyes, also wrote about this, and after the publication of printed books, handwritten lists from lists from lists.

Thus, there is every reason to believe. That the myth was born not earlier than the second half of the eighteenth century. Not out of the blue, no. Similar legends were passed from mouth to mouth in different parts of the world, and in a wide variety of peoples and tribes. But scientists, for some reason, decided to choose the Babylonian version, as the only one claiming to be authentic. The foundation has already been dug up, in Iraq, not far from Lake Tartar, and tourists come to it in an endless stream.

Hill city. Iraq

So the mountain gave birth to a mouse. More precisely, the legend gave birth to the ziggurat. To consolidate the myth, it is enough for someone with a scientific degree, preferably a Doctor of Historical Sciences, a university professor with a sonorous name, to declare any suitable pile of bricks the Tower of Babel, and the trick is done. Well, what really happened?

All world religions are very reminiscent of a collection of stories by Neanderthals about how they visited the twenty-first century. Those. any cult is a mega cargo cult. Myths and legends, as well as ceremonies and rituals, to a modern person seem to be the play of small children who imitate adults. For example, praying in front of an icon is very reminiscent of a Skype conversation using a tablet computer, or answering an intercom call. And the legend about the copper pipes that destroyed the walls of Jericho with their roar is nothing more than an artillery bombardment.

Some wild man saw the cannons, and noticed how after each "roar of the trumpet" part of the fortress wall collapsed. He could not have known that a cannonball was flying out of the barrel when fired, therefore, due to illiteracy, he decided that the walls were crumbling from the sound of "magic pipes". This is how the biblical myth of the destruction of Jericho was born. And such examples are countless.

So the myth of the construction of the Tower of Babel, in my opinion, has exactly the same nature of origin. Someone, very backward and uneducated, witnessed the construction of the column, described this process in accordance with the existing level of knowledge, as best he could, as he understood, and this ridiculous story of the savage served as the basis for the emergence of a whole sub-branch of history, which is engaged in the study and reconstruction of that, which in fact was not. Wagons of abstracts, dissertations, monographs have been written.

Countless number of expeditions and exploration works have been carried out. As well as expertise, translations, and an unthinkable number of events that are financed by the budgets of various countries and foundations. With the money spent by taxpayers and sponsors, it would have been possible to build three towers to the sky, but there was no result, and there is still no result.

And it won't! Because the myth is based on a banal and vulgar description of a construction site. The construction is uncommon, of course, large-scale, similar to the one during which the Pillar of Alexandria was erected on Palace Square in St. Petersburg. But it was just a construction site, and not a divine act of punishing the arrogant Hamites by God. Why boor? Because according to legend, it was a descendant of one of Noah's sons named Ham that King Nimrod started to build a tower to heaven.

And now, the most important thing. If you have noticed, the word "pillar" has been heard only once so far, in connection with St. Petersburg. I have only one question for all homo sapiens: - Why, all over the world it is believed that a tower was built in Babylon, and only Russians are sure that we are talking about the creation of a pillar?

I don’t accept the answer “because in the Church Slavonic language a pillar means a tower”. In all dictionaries, the ancient Russian word "pillar" (stolp) has a single meaning: - "a log, a thick beam, fortified upright." Therefore, the ancient word "pandemonium" that has come down to us is written and pronounced through the letter "P", as it was at all times. After the reform of the Russian language in 1918. The spelling of the word "pillar" through "B" was considered correct, and the name of the process of installing a log, or a thick bar, is still written with "P".

Today both words exist simultaneously in explanatory dictionaries, “pillar” is interpreted in the same way as I indicated above, and the word “pillar” means “tower, column”. True, it is clarified that this word has fallen out of use, and is used most often figuratively, in relation to something unshakable, fundamental, for example, "The Pillars of Science" in relation to honored scientists. But you need to know that before the Revolution and the reform of the Russian language, started by the non-Russian Lunacharsky, there was only one word - pillar. Even in Pushkin's original "Tales of the Fisherman and the Fish", the old woman says to his grandfather: - "I want to be a pillar noblewoman!"

V. N. Tatishchev in "The Parish of Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Pillars" we read:

"It is believed that this parish was named Pillars because the pillar or primary boyars lived in it."

Here it is necessary to clarify that the pillar nobles were those whose names were indicated in the "Pillars", but in fact it was a register of the oldest boyar families, compiled in alphabetical order, and arranged in separate columns (columns / columns).

Therefore, it can be argued with all certainty that even in the nineteenth century, our ancestors did not in any way connect such concepts as a tower and a pillar. The tower in Russia was called tura, or bull. The pillars of the bridges are still called bulls, and the British still call all the towers tours. After all, what is a "tower"? Well, the tour! The pronunciation can be distorted as you like, and the spelling often betrays the origin of the word.

That is why in all languages of the world the concept of "pandemonium" has nothing to do with turmoil, chaos and a bunch of people who do not know what to do with themselves. In English, this concept is spelled "Pandemonium". And in most other languages too. And it has nothing to do with the concept of "tower creation". And only a Russian person is clear that the current concept of "pandemonium" means the process of creating a pillar. It is the pillar, not the tower.

Consequently, the one with whom the myth of the Tower of Babel began his journey around the world described the same thing that happened on Palace Square in 1832-1833.

True, he did not have an understanding of what was happening. The temporary structure, erected to cast the columns inside, he took for an unfinished tower.

Thus, we can safely put the legend of the Babylonian pandemonium on a par with such popular works as the legend of Icarus, Veles, Prometheus, etc. Their essence is the same, and the goal of global distribution is the same. To root in the consciousness of the flock the idea that "what is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to a bull." Translated into Russian, this means: - "Do not poke a pork snout into a Kalashny row."

Icarus encroached on the sacred, and decided that, like the gods, he would also be able to fly, for which he was punished. By the way, there is quite a lot of evidence that the hang glider was not invented in the twentieth century, and it was even confirmed experimentally that in ancient times people really used the prototype of modern ultralight non-motorized aircraft, and not at all for entertainment. In this way, they carried out aerial reconnaissance and terrain mapping.

Velez stole cows from Iria, and taught mortals the art of raising livestock. For this he himself was expelled from Iria. This suggests that the gods zealously watched over the non-proliferation of technologies that are not allowed by mortals.

Prometheus taught people to use fire, and was also punished by the gods for this. He was chained to a high rock, and the eagles pecked at the poor fellow's liver.

The moral of the Babylonian pandemonium fable has the same meaning: - A person should not have the knowledge and skills that those who govern him have. In this regard, the legend does not sin against the real state of affairs. I was born a simple hard worker, a hard worker and you will die. The son of a private will never become a marshal, because the marshal has his own son. It's all about the same thing.

But here's what else attracts attention in the legend of the Tower of Babel. It is believed that the construction was initiated by a certain Nimrod. What if the name is mis-translated, or deliberately garbled? Ni (m) rod easily turns into Herod if you read the name differently. This guess could easily be classified as not subject to discussion, if not for one thing … There are more than enough facts of distortion of names and names, with the help of which the very meaning of the presentation is changed.

For example, in the Bible there is a mention of the Canaanite king Jabin, against whom Joshua fought. The overwhelming majority have no thoughts at all about what is being discussed here. And only those who know that Jews call Russians Canaanites, or in other words Canaanites, will understand that this is not about some unknown Javin, but neither more nor less about Ivan the great himself, better known as Presbyter John. And he really ruled the Russians, until he was killed by Genghis Khan. And the very name "Canaanites" probably came from the fact that the khans were the rulers on the territory of Tartaria - Scythia. And khan, this is not a title of the Tatar rulers, as many think. Han, this is a level of personality development at which a person becomes able to foresee the future. In modern parlance, a top-level strategist.

Further, we know that before the campaign of Alexander the Great, Asia Minor (Turkey), Iran and Persia (Syria and Iraq) belonged to the Scythians. And among the Scythians, as you know, Veles was a particularly revered god, he is also Tur, he is Baal, or Baal. Simply put, a bull. And if my guess is correct, that Baal is Baal, this is the southern embodiment of our legend about Veles, then it is easy to assume that the word "Babylon" itself is derived from the word "Baal". Then the name of the city of Baalbek in Lebanon becomes clear, this is also the city of Baal.

Sacrificing a baby to Baal

Now about Marduk. The description of the tower of Nimrod says that a sanctuary of the god Marduk was built on the top. And if you believe the culturologists, Marduk is also a deity that had the guise of a bull. More precisely, it is spoken of as a solar body.

"Marduk (Akkadian MAR. DUK" son of the clear sky ", in other interpretations" mar duku "-" son of the world hill "or" amar utuk "-" calf of the Sun God Utu ") - in the Sumerian-Akkadian mythology, the supreme deity of the pantheon of Babylonia, the supreme god in Ancient Mesopotamia, the patron god of the city of Babylon after 2024 BC Son of Eija (Enki) and Damkina (Damgalnuny), husband of Tsarpanit (Militta, Bilit), father of Nabu, the god of scribal art. Communicated with the planet Jupiter ". (Wikipedia)

But a number of researchers draw a direct parallel between the Sumerian Marduk and the Jewish legend of the Golden Calf. And, probably, there are reasons for that. Thus, we are faced with a number of startling coincidences:

We have Veles, the Babylonians have Marduk, the Jews have Baal, Moses and the Golden Calf, the Romans have Jupiter. All of them are connected by one common feature: - they are all human-bulls or just bulls / tours. Descriptions of the idols of Baal, Jupiter and Veles agree in detail. This is a man sitting on a throne, on whose head there are bull horns, between which a sacred fire burns in a bowl. The Egyptians also had such a character:

Sacred bull Apis

Whatever one may say, everywhere we come across a solar horned deity, whose symbols are fire, gold, the sun and cattle. From a number of positive characters, only Jewish ones drop out, but this is normal. In Jewish mythology, there are no goodies at all.

In some unthinkable way, the concepts of architecture are intertwined. I have already mentioned that the towers in Russia were called tours or bulls. Today these words are used only for a chess piece in the form of a tower, and the pillars of bridges, called bulls. The consonance of the words "tour" and "tower" looks very strange against this background. But it seems even stranger that New York's stronghold of Wall Street bankers has a totem like this:

Now let's ask the question of the randomness of the location of the golden calf on Wall Street. You can repeat as many mantras as you like that this is the "Rushing Bull" on the "Wall Street". They only affect consumers of soap operas. But it’s clear to you and me that the New York bankers are all Jews, and whoever else needed their cult beast, the golden calf, if not. And they understand the name of the street differently than atheists, Christians, Muslims, etc. For them, this is not Wall Street, but Waal Street.

These are the unexpected versions that a simple understanding of the meaning of the Russian word "pillar" leads to.