Diogenes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:44 pm Genesis 11:6], the main point is that this is like so many other myths, a simple picture story used to explain why we have different languages. That this story could be taken seriously as an actual event in history is laughable. This is typical of myths around …
However the point of my chronology was that putting it earlier than the Ziggurats still doesn’t put it earlier than the Egyptian culture that produced tomb slabs (that led to the step pyramid) or (eventually) written Egyptian and thus the indirect evidence is that Egypt as a pyramid builder culture and Egyptian – speaking culture …
There’s also the suggestion that, since the Mesopotamians continues speaking Sumerian (until conquered by Akkad and Sumerian became the Mesopotamian Latin) and they carried on building Ziggurats until Assyria, wouldn’t that, rather than Babel, explain any resemblances without proving the Babel event? Sumer is most likely the land of Shinar in Gen 10:10, which is …
Some more ziggurat-like structures found around the world: Prasat Thom of Koh Ker temple in Cambodia: “Under the reign of the kings Jayavarman IV and Harshavarman II Koh Ker was briefly the capital of the whole empire (928–944 AD). Unparalleled is the 36-metre (118 ft)-high seven‑tiered pyramid, which most probably served as state temple[4]: 103 of …
You may not be concerned about putting the theory into the generally – accepted ancient Chronology, but I was and it does show that the predynastic Egyptian culture undermines the Babel -theory for how various languages originated. As for generally accepted theories and dates for origins of written languages, there is none. As I’ve mentioned, …
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No one yet has excavated any ruins of the tower of Babel, so we don’t have any physical evidence of what it looked like. But, pretty much consensus view is that it was a tall ziggurat. “The biblical account of the Tower of Babel has been associated by modern scholars to the massive construction undertakings …
I believe it’s also correct that Egyptian, Sumerian, Chinese and perhaps Harrappan were known to exist before the time Babel was supposed to happen and certainly Babylon (with the Tower of Bab-el -Marduk) was built far later when many nations with different languages existed. As for the oldest languages in the world based on the …
Diogenes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:05 am With all these creation and flood myths we are expected by the Christian faction to accept absolutely only one of them, the account in Genesis. It seems the height of ethnocentric arrogance to pronounce ONE scripture out of thousands of similar traditions that represents the ‘one true …
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But, there is another class of explanations which include the concept of syncretism: Syncretism is the merging or assimilation of several mythologies or religions, a process well known by anthropologists. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native … cal-change Syncretism is definitely prevalent in world religions. As a matter of fact, practically all existing world religions either mention or have a …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 10:52 amJust a possible suggestion as to why flood stories are ubiquitous. When you read them, they don’t look much like the Flood story. Again, the question remains why stories would share similar details. “Flood stories pervade hundreds of cultures and there are striking similarities to many of the …