![]() ![]() Marduk and his dragon Mušḫuššu, from a Babylonian cylinder seal. ![]() That’s what the Etemenanki was meant to be – a staircase tall enough that you could climb it up to heaven. Here alone, heaven and earth could interconnect… as long as someone could just build a staircase that went up high enough. It was here, they believed, that their god Marduk created the world. The tower was built on a spot that the Babylonians believed was the exact center of the universe. Like the tower in the Biblical story, the Etemenanki was built in a deliberate attempt to make a staircase that climbed all the way up to the gods. ![]() ( Public Domain )īut this wasn’t just a big building. ‘The Tower of Babel’ (1563) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
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