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Jon
09-22-2007, 12:53 AM
I split tongues, though that was not my purpose, it was the conclusion

To this day, long after my death, I create great confusion

I was to reach for the sky

But somewhere something went awry

Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall

My makers now know this as I became their pitfall.

Many debate why and where “The Great Hunter” made me

Most think to fight with one we cannot see.

alinda
09-22-2007, 01:41 PM
Are you the devil?:innocent:

ZoNeSeeK
09-23-2007, 04:44 PM
A twister?

She-Oy
09-23-2007, 05:24 PM
Tower of Babylon!

Interesting side note....that's where get the phrase "Babble On...." Think about it.

ZoNeSeeK
09-23-2007, 07:34 PM
Wasnt it the Tower of Babel?

She-Oy
09-23-2007, 08:11 PM
Oh yeah...duh! It was. I was close. yes no?

chuxter
09-24-2007, 09:03 AM
I'm going to guess a sword.

Jon
09-24-2007, 07:41 PM
You say true She-OY

A goose, high on a power line for you!

ZoNeSeeK
09-24-2007, 08:43 PM
:) I'll remove the marker (thanks Jon)

Aesculapius
09-28-2007, 07:48 PM
I'm going to guess a sword.


Rabbinic literature offers many different accounts of other causes for building the Tower of Babel, and of the intentions of its builders. It was regarded in the Mishnah as a rebellion against God. Some later midrash record that the builders of the Tower, called "the generation of secession" in the Jewish sources, said: "God has no right to choose the upper world for Himself, and to leave the lower world to us; therefore we will build us a tower, with an idol on the top holding a sword, so that it may appear as if it intended to war with God" (Gen. R. xxxviii. 7; Tan., ed. Buber, Noah, xxvii. et seq.).

The building of the Tower was meant to bid defiance not only to God, but also to Abraham, who exhorted the builders to reverence. The passage mentions that the builders spoke sharp words against God, not cited in the Bible, saying that once every 1,656 years, heaven tottered so that the water poured down upon the earth, therefore they would support it by columns that there might not be another deluge (Gen. R. l.c.; Tan. l.c.; similarly Josephus, "Ant." i. 4, § 2).

Jon
09-29-2007, 08:07 PM
It was a truly HUGE structure in girth as well as height as I understand it.