Friday, October 9, 2009
Babel Brad Pitt
The story of the Tower of Babel turns up in Hebrew and Muslim texts, as well as the Bible, but the basic gist is that men tried to build a stairway to heaven and God subverted them by giving them different languages. They could no longer understand each other, so the whole construction fell apart.It's a powerful myth because it carries so many ideas: that there are two worlds and we got the
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