Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: jallan@smrtytrek.com (jallan) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Aleister Crowley's Legacy & Lunatic revisited Date: 3 Oct 2003 14:19:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <299f1138.0310031319.56e50fb3@posting.google.com> References: <3F776B7B.329696FD@complience.force9.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.101.137.194 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1065215973 30849 127.0.0.1 (3 Oct 2003 21:19:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:357757 "Tom" wrote in message news:... > "Nix" wrote in message > news:3F776B7B.329696FD@complience.force9.co.uk... > > Isn't it funny? How people will argue about their beliefs and fuel each > > other's dogmatic responses. > > > > Ah! The legacy of Babylon lives on. It's not so much a language problem > > as a communication problem... but that's another story... > > Speaking of other stories, the story of Babel is not the story of Babylon. > > Babel is in Genesis. Babylon is in Kings II and other places. The Hebrew texts have BBL (vocalized by the Massoretes as ['ba:vEl]) for occurrences in Genesis and elsewhere. The name derives from Akkadian _Báb-ilim_ 'Gate of the god'. Classical Hebrew had lost the case endings earlier possessed by the language and naturally also usually dropped them from foreign names whence _-im_ is not rendered. In Neo-Babylonian the city was instead called _Báb-iláni_ 'Gate of the gods', whence Greek _Babylôn_. There is no reason to think that BBL in Genesis was intended to mean anything other than BBL = Greek _Babylôn in other Biblical books. Search on "Bab-ilim" or "Bab iliani" in Google for many references. Jim Allan