| Babel Stones | |
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Origin |
Tower of Babel (Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta) |
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Type |
Ancient Stones with |
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Effects |
Allows those who hold the stones to speak in a language only other holders can understand. |
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Downsides |
Incomprehensible to those who do not have a stone. |
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Activation |
Holding |
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Collected by |
Eva Goldburg |
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Section |
Gila Cliff 286C |
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Aisle |
34999-203833 |
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Shelf |
94493-29830-3393 |
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Date of Collection |
June 1st, 1932 |
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Origin[]
The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Mīgdal Bāḇel) narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר). There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. While the archaeological record is incompatible with this identification, many scholars believe that the biblical story was inspired by Etemenanki. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta.
Effects[]
Holding the stones causes the holder to speak in incomprehensible language that only another holder of a similar stone can understand.
Collection[]
Collected by Eva Goldburg on June 1st, 1932.