Tower of Babel
4 Feb 2026 15:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karmicdragonflyI listen to podcasts in the morning each morning when I'm making breakfast, and when I'm in the car driving, etc.
I really liked the idea that this podcaster had in his 1st podcast of the story of the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament being a story about how the common language of Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform, was replaced by a myriad of other phonetic languages.
And it makes sense, given that Babylon captured a puny little shepherd people who worshipped a former Canaanite storm god who climbed to the top of the pantheon. Those shepherd people raised generations of families in Mesopotamia, and were witness to the fall of Babylon.
Link to podcast episode
I really liked the idea that this podcaster had in his 1st podcast of the story of the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament being a story about how the common language of Mesopotamia, written in cuneiform, was replaced by a myriad of other phonetic languages.
And it makes sense, given that Babylon captured a puny little shepherd people who worshipped a former Canaanite storm god who climbed to the top of the pantheon. Those shepherd people raised generations of families in Mesopotamia, and were witness to the fall of Babylon.
Link to podcast episode