Hamites, Semites and their neighbours in the Middle East

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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.

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 !