Babel-Babel stands tall on the top of the mountain. The silent earth looks down on the earth, and the holy tower goes straight into the clouds. Guarding the ancient legend, it has not changed for thousands of years. The stone carving with broken wings, with sharp lines, depicts Chen Meng in the past; On the dusty clay tablets, contractual words tell the glory of the past. Babel soared into the sky and stared at the Mesopotamian plain. In a distant place, the earth meets the sky, and a little green is flashing. The dove took back the olive branch from there, the flood receded and everything was reborn. Abram looked down at the earth from here. It was a paradise flowing with milk and honey, a promise of God. On a wonderful moonlit night, the priest danced a mysterious dance. They put palm branches on their chests, and only tambourines can read their cries. Babel stands quietly on the top of the mountain. On this sacred altar, people raise their hands to meet the God of Peace. Three sacred stones were destroyed and the temple was burned; The city of peace became a battlefield. The Euphrates River roared, the Tigris River roared, and the air was filled with blood. Babylon sobbed, Nineveh wailed, and Mesopotamia gave a cry of pain. Babel stands on the top of the mountain, and its ancient skin has left scars of war. Killing each other, what the hell is this! Only by killing can we find the meaning of survival? She couldn't help being silent any more. Fourth, from the sacred cemetery, there was a deep voice. Black veil can't cover the sad tears; White camellia can't soothe the lost soul. The pious candlelight gave off orange light and lit up the goddess' face. Pray. Babel, the holy tower is towering into the sky. May the soul step on your revolving ladder and rest in peace. The Tower of Babel stands tall on the top of the mountain. The silent earth looks down on the earth, and the holy tower goes straight into the clouds. Guarding the ancient legend, it has not changed for thousands of years. When weapons and ambitions shattered all the beautiful stories, the Mesopotamian plain was bleak and desolate, leaving only the ruins of Babel to witness the sad history of the past prosperity.
Answer 2:
According to Genesis Chapter 1 1 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was built by human beings at that time, hoping to reach heaven. In order to stop the plan, God asked human beings to speak different languages, so that human beings could not communicate with each other, so the plan fell through and human beings parted ways. This story tries to explain the emergence of different languages and races in the world.
Babel (Chuang 1 1: 1-9, Chinese version)
At that time, all people in the world had the same accent and language. When they migrated eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and lived there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and burn them thoroughly. 」。 So they use bricks as stones and stone paint as mortar. They said, Come, let's build a city and a tower, the top of which will reach the sky, so as to proclaim our name, lest we be scattered all over the earth. . God came to see the cities and towers built by the world. The Lord said, "Look, they have become one people and all speak the same words. Now that they have done this, nothing will fail in the future. " . Let's go down there and mix up their accents so that they can't understand their speech. So the Lord scattered them from there on all the earth. So they stopped building the city. Because there the Lord confounded the language of all peoples under the earth and scattered them all over the earth, the name of the city was called Babel. (meaning "chaos")
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Jewish-Christian record
Genesis chapter 1-9 records that people had the same language and lived together in Shinar, not far from the Euphrates River. People use the resources of the river valley to build cities and towers there, so as to gather all human beings and show their strength. God came to inspect, thinking that human beings were too confident and United, and once the plan was completed, they could do whatever they wanted, so he decided to confuse people's accents and languages, let them spread all over the country, and stop building this tower, so this tower was called Babel, which means chaos.
The same language is called Adam's language. Historically, some scholars have suggested that a certain language is a primitive language, such as Hebrew and Basque (see Jewish literature). The picture of the tower abandoned halfway is symbolic in religious art, which indicates that human arrogance will only end in chaos.
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Records outside the Bible
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history
Herodotus wrote a book in 440 BC describing the "Jupiter Belusta" in Babylon, which is considered as the inspiration for the story of Babel. About 670 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's article mentioned that he restored the temple of Miroda.
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Jewish literature
There are many records about the reason and purpose of building the Tower of Babel in Hebrew literature. Some Jewish literature notes in the Old Testament that the people who built this tower were called "the divided generation". They think: "God has no right to choose the high place and leave the low place to us, so we will build this tower, put an idol on the top of it and ask him to pretend to declare war on God with a sword in his hand."
Different from the Bible, some Jewish documents mention that the people who built this tower are protesting against God, because the heaven vibrates every 1656, and the flood will fall and flood the ground, so people need to build tall columns to support the heaven to prevent the flood. Other documents point out that tower builders prefer to wage war against God, because their arrows into the sky are covered with blood, which makes them believe that they have the ability to attack heaven.
There are great differences about nimrod in Jewish literature. Some documents point out that he encouraged his people to build the Tower of Babel, but other documents record that he was actually far away from the people who built the Tower of Babel.
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Koran
The Koran has a similar story. In verses 28:38 and 40:36-37, Pharaoh asked Haman to build a mud tower so that he could climb to heaven and meet the Lord of Moses. This tower has no name.
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The Book of Mormon
The description of Babel in the Book of Mormon is roughly the same as that in the Bible. However, according to the Book of Mormon, a group of Yeruidai people kept their original language, left Babel and settled in North America, which is not recorded in other documents.
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Modern influence
The story of Babel reminds people that there are many languages in the world that curse more than cultural diversity. The image of Babel is used to promote international auxiliary languages.
Wikipedia uses the word "Babel" as a synonym for language.