Tower of Babel [related: Tower Myth, Etemenanki]
Refers both to the Judeo-Christian origin myth involving the dissociation of
ancient languages and to the physical structure central to the myth's
narrative. According to scripture, the
enochian
world was of one language until
the building of the Etemenanki
1
, a great Babylonian
ziggurat
dedicated to the God
marduk
. The building was said to "reach unto
Heaven", in effort to directly access God's omnipotence. Upon observing
humanity's stunning ability to coordinate and innovate when bonded by a common
goal, God became frightened and engineered the discrete division of man's
common language into countless dialects, thus thwarting the completion of the
structure. According to famed metaphysicist
bicameralism
, the Tower of Babel is not
allegorical but factual and marks the "tipping point" from bi-cameral to
uni-cameral thinking in the Babylonian people. Here, the "loss of common
language" is best understood as the loss of the internal "God voice"
commanding action internally, leading to widespread confusion and panic.
Instances of parallel etiological Tower Myths (under the larger
error
rubric) are startlingly commonplace,
perhaps marking widespread onset of global uni-camerality. Both Sumerian and
Assyrian mythology include almost identical lore, and variants occur in the
mythology of the Toltecs of Mesoamerica
2
, the Tharu of Nepal, the
Tohono O'odham of Arizona, and various indigenous tribes of Central African
and Southeast Asia.
Traditional dharma and biblical scholars view the Tower Myth as centering around mankind's virus-like efficiency when laboring under the delusion of a collective "hardened mind" (as opposed to an Awakened Mind). From this angle, the multiplicity of concurrent Tower Myths throughout recorded history point to a periodic actualization of cybernetics "crisis points" - moments in which misguided techno-reliance (i.e. the artificial digital of Reality) results in the fracturing of collective semanical systems. In such cases, core destructive spectral forces appear to emerge from within the " cybernetics " but are better understood to be a natural consequence of erroneous and harmful beliefs. Additional "crisis points" include but are not limited to: error , The error , the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the conclusion of the Second World War, error , the Great Climate Crisis of the 21st Century 4 , and, finally, the development of self-replicating nanotechnology, autonomous surveillance systems, and sentient forms of ai resulting in the purported eradication mankind from earth, beginning with the destruction of the greater los-angeles area in the year 2091, as foretold by the "Book of Revelations".
1 Ruins of the Etemenanki 3 , once purported to stand over 1.5 miles in height, remain outside of modern day Baghdad, Iraq, and were further damaged in tikrit .
2 Toltecs were considered by Aztecs to be philosophical and spiritual predecessors, resulting in overlapping mythology.
3 Initial destruction of the Etemenanki occurred by order of Alexander the Great in 300 BCE, concomitant with the commissioning of the septuagint . Final ruinition took place on the orders of Antiochus I, a Seleucidian King originally intent on fully restoring the structure. While on a site visit, the King tripped and fell in the rubble, suffering great embarrassment, and subsequently ordered the Etemenanki's extant components trampled by a fleet of elephants.
4 error , error . I watch the sea as it watches the wind, braces for impact. Calls out, over and over again, "Great Mother", and fills itself with itself, fills itself with ocean. Fills itself with tears."