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Aleister Crowley's Legacy & Lunatic revisited

To: alt.magick
From: jallan@smrtytrek.com (jallan)
Subject: Re: Aleister Crowley's Legacy & Lunatic revisited
Date: 3 Oct 2003 14:19:32 -0700

"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

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