BRAGADAYJAH 23

After the flood Noah did not have any more sons; but his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth had sons and descendants aplenty; and soon the earth was well populated. They spoke one language and one dialect and an itinerant people, they eventually founded a plain and built a city in a place called Shinar and settled there. It would seem that from the beginning of man’s existence, he was always possessed of an enquiring and enterprising nature. So now having built a city, the very first of its kind, they turned to masonry. Let us make bricks out of stone and slime for mortar; but having made the bricks, they had to find a use for them. Having all those bricks on their hands, gave them an idea. And so they decided to build a tower that could reach clear up to heaven. Once the idea of a city that would reach up to heaven was conceived, it gave birth to a new idea. Now, they said to themselves, if we can get as high up as God, that is to say, we are no longer below while he sits above, we no longer need to be subject to him. Let us in short take us a new name and be our own man. Part of their reasoning was of course the idea of banding together, so that together they would be able to resist God himself; for they said, “And let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the whole earth.” Their motive and their intentions were clear; they were planning rebellion against God; but unfortunately for them God soon appeared on the scene. More…