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The Table of Nations
Genesis 10:8-12
8 Cush was the father[c] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in[d] Shinar.[e]
11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,[f] Calah
12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
[c] Genesis 10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.
[d] 'Genesis 10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in
[e] Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia
[f] Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares
Zeus Ammon more evidence of astrology being the template and language that all these cultures were connecting to. The Sumerians look like to be the most advanced in astrology deep in ancient history. If they were also into shipping and trading, they would have no doubt noticed the change in stars, let's say, Cornwall, England, where there is evidence Phoenicians made a trade port there. Probably sharing info and also trying new experiments like, Stonehenge.
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It's got to be Babylon. Can't find it now but it's a poem that talks about drinking from the wines or rivers of Babylon. It's written in a kyklos historical style where you start off with the Akkadians because of Sargon of Akkad. Then Babylonians who conquered as far as the eye can see, and when they couldn't conquer anymore, they settled and became drunk with the wines of Babylon. Slow, fat and sensitive they became. While across the way the Assyrians who were hungry and thirsty, who had to survive the hard way making the Assyrians a hard people, looked at what was going on in Babylon and they too thought, well, why not just take it for ourselves. And so the Assyrians conquered the once great Babylonians and they too started drinking the wines of Babylon. They too, in time, became weak and drunk men of pleasure and wealth. The Persians also had hard lives and saw that the Assyrians were fat and drunk and happy, and so came the Persians and took Babylon for themselves. The wines flowed and the minds of victorious men with it. Here come the Greeks with Alexander the Great and steamrolled the Persians all the way to India. Oh those Greeks were decadent and proud and filled with wine that made them fight each other until the Roman Standards came crashing through….I invented what I wrote in the spirit of the poem that I can't find. But it's a great poem that takes you through all the empires that have anything to do with Babylon, including the Egyptians which seem to be an adversary since, well, the beginning. The Battle of Megiddo and the Battle of Kush.
He looks like a young little old lady?!?!?