
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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The Tower of Babel
The tower of babel is a story from the eleventh chapter of the old testament. The book was written during the late bronze and early iron ages, when it stood exalted as our best hope of understanding central eurasian history. This notion of reaching upward for the power of divinity is the same one we find in the stories of adam and eve,. prometheus and pandora alas and pellops and faust and benes the devil. It took me a long time to find an interpretation of this story that satisfied me years. I found it in history, the history of iroc.
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