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Originally Posted by Florian
I know nothing about Babylon (except once told that Noah's Ark first appeared there), and would be interested to hear more. Judging by other posts on this thread I think quite a few of us are interested. Please tell more.
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First off, Tradition places Noah's Ark making landfall somewhere on Mount Arafat
Not sure how interested the average member may be in Babylon, but to respond to your request :
The domination of Babylon by a succession of Anatolian and Mesopotamian neighbouring peoples infused the practice of religion with a panoply of deities : viz -
http://clt3378.wikispaces.com/Enuma+Elish
This wiki shows the entire hierarchy of Babylonian deities and maps the assumption and addition of later deities, which inevitably reflected the interactions with a number of invaders. Notable among the deities whose worship survived down to early Hebrew times is the god, Bel, a name consistently attributed to the god Marduk, and which surfaced later in Canaan as the god Baal.
A typical list showing the turnover of rulers in Babylonia, in chronological order, might be : -
Amorites ( Semites ) Hammurabi, the most famous of these, was the first to make Babylon his capital
Hittites sacked Babylon
Kassites ( non-Semite people originating from the Zagreb mountains
Elamites ( probably an Aboriginal people )
Assyrians ( a Semitic people )
Chaldeans ( Semitic peoples )
Persians ( a mixture of Aryan ' aboriginal ' peoples )
Greeks ( Macedonians - an Aryan people )
One site which details the rulers of Babylon from Hammurabi, the famous Amorite king : -
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/...historyid=aa10
Three Assyrian kings of Babylon went by the pleasing name " Tiglath-Pileser " ! ! The name brings to mind a TS eager to service a hungry anus ! But perhaps my imagination has been unfairly hi-jacked by these three ' kinky ' kings ! !
There is stacks of info. on Babylonia out there on the Web. One site which will overwhelm you with facts is -
http://history-world.org/babylonia.htm
That is, if you don't fall asleep reading through it !
