#Tower of Babel

[sometiktoksarevalid]

#cc #video games #tower of babel #languages #chants of sennaar

[egyptianguard]

OP is a coward and turned off reblogs but i'm NOT letting this shit die that easy

#txt #txt post #tower of babel #196 #real

[shelvesofgold]

ok so i have a hazbin hotel theory (specifically about the vees) my friend brought to my attention that i haven’t seen anyone post about so i’m gonna do it here

ok so we have all seen the v tower, it is one of the only buildings in hazbin that is given significant detail and more specifically it is one of the ONLY CIRCULAR SHAPED BUILDINGS!!!

why is this a relevant detail you ask?? because the circular shape of the v tower looks EXTREMELY SIMILAR to the tower of babel!!!

for those of you unfamiliar w/ the story of the tower of babel, essentially the story goes that humans built a tower to try and reach heaven and as punishment for their hubris god cursed them all to speak in tongues aka babble!

the story of hubris perfectly lines up w/ the current attitude the vees have, especially towards powerful players like charlie and alastor. I think they will pay a similar price for their pride, especially w/ lucifer and heaven taking a more active role in the coming season.

the vees primary influence is thru their influence so if they were cursed w/ an inability to communicate or smth of the likes it would be a MAJOR HIT to their power!!!

everything in hazbin and the hellaverse are drawn vv intentionally! the heaven embassy looks like a church, the serephim are all depicted w/ three pairs of wings, the deadly sins are drawn based on biblical descriptions of them!!! this is why i think the v tower looking like the tower of babel is not merely coincidence!!

let me know what y’all think of this theory, i’d love to know what you guys have to say about this :)))

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel season 1 #hazbin hotel season 2 #hazbin hotel theory #hazbin hotel the vees #the vees #valentino hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel velvette #tower of babble #tower of babel #hazbin hotel alastor #lucifer hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #charlie hazbin hotel #goldie thoughts #this is me manifesting #i hope the vees get smote fr

[theartofasty]

"The Other Holy War" gouache on arches paper 60 x 40 cm very happy to finally be able to share what is now my largest illustration to this day with you all. This illustration was commissioned for the cover of the upcoming TTRPG "Let Us Build a Tower", an incredibly ambitious project with over 100 illustrations by an array of incredibly talented artists, for which the preview is now live on Kickstarter, make sure to bookmark it so you don't miss the launch ;) right now you can also find the full resolution file of this painting, along with the thumbnail sketch and charcoal value study (which will remain Patreon exclusive) on my Patreon, so make sure to check that out too!

#asty art #traditional art #body horror #cosmic horror #dark art #horror art #artists on tumblr #biblically accurate angel #angelcore #seraphim #ophanim #psychedelic art #library of babel #tower of babel #painting #gouache #gouache painting #traditional painting

[illustratus]

The Confusion of Tongues (The Tower of Babel) by Gustave Doré

#tower of babel #art #gustave doré #babylon #biblical #bible #la grande bible de tours #christianity #christian #religion #religious art #religious #tower #towers

[jareckiworld]

Timo Nasseri — Babel III (steel and magnets, 2018)

#Timo Nasseri #german art #contemporary sculpture #sculpture #tower of babel

[mysticmiav]

"The days had not yet come when Ramy wore Victoire's sloppily knitted scarves with pride, when Robin learned exactly how long Ramy liked his tea steeped so he could have it ready when he inevitably came to the Buttery late from his Arabic tutorial"

Ramy has my whole heart I love him sm🥹🫶

#babel #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #tower of babel #babel fanart #fanart #book #book fanart #sketch #ramy mirza #doodle #rf kuang #art #digital sketch #digital drawing #digital fanart #bookfanart

[sasami-san]

#baba jaga #howl's moving castle #toph beifong #atla #the chocolate guy #amaury guichon #tower of babel #zillo beast #clone wars #star wars #poll #gävle goat #mri machine #Dracula's moving castle #castlevania #dracula #horse plinko

[drewpicturesani]

The Traveller

So Chants of Sennaar is a good game-

#chants of sennaar #cos traveller #traveller sennaar #fanart #chants of sennaar spoilers #sennaar #art #character portrait #support small artists #tower of babel #hiiii these are custom glyphs based on how I think each floor might come to refer to the traveller #devotees is a combo of [person] and [up/great] as the traveller helped them to open the doors and ascend #warriors is [person] and [go/pass] as the traveller filtered through their ranks without trace #bards is [freedom] with their lil [person] signifier loop on the bottom as the traveller brought both the serfs and the upperclass bards #their own kinds of freedom #the alchemists is a mix of [specific person] and [open] as the traveller opened their fairy door #and the anchorites #extra spoiler warning just in case #the anchorites is a combination of [key] and [talk] - because they made the traveller to unlock the closed off communication between #the peoples of the tower #PLUS it looks like the ... #what are we calling the god/duty/beauty/transformation/exile glyph yall #the connection glyph? #thatll do

[nobrashfestivity]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Tower of Babel from Landscape & Memory 1557–1566

#pieter bruegel the elder #pieter bruegel #tower of babel

[balkanparamo]

Bruegel: The Tower of Babel

#art #painting #pieter bruegel #babel #tower of babel

[ao3cassandraic]

I’m wondering about your thoughts on something I’ve been musing on after S2. How good is Aziraphale’s reading comprehension? How much does he understand subtext and metaphor? Because his behavior this season struck me with the impression that he didn’t really understand the books he collects. He’s clever at puzzle solving, and contains vast knowledge; but he always seems to take things at face value (when he’s not willfully misunderstanding), and refuses to give up black-and-white thinking, which would make it very difficult to analyze texts.

Angels, demons, language, and culture: part 1

You sure ask the difficult ones. (Which is great, I'm totally jazzed about it!)

I delayed answering this ask because it sent me off in a lot of directions:

What is an angel's starting knowledge base?

In contrast, how and what do we humans learn about our world and one another?

Which of these learning methods is not really available to an angel?

What do humans learn from books, fiction especially?

What kinds of information get left implicit in books because authors are humans writing for other humans?

How would an angel fill in those blanks? How would those blanks distort an angel's notion of How Humans and Human Things Work?

What would angels generally and either Aziraphale or Muriel (because yeah, it's hard to have this discussion without thinking about Muriel too) specifically read human-authored fiction for?

I don't have all the answers to the above questions. Not even CLOSE. I happily invite my fellow meta-ists to weigh in on any or all of them!

But let's see what I can tease out. We'll start with factory settings, so to speak.

Angelic vs. human factory settings

(questions 1 through 3)

Angels have (one) language. They have music -- or, at least, they can sing Her praises (likely by rote). At least some, like our Starmaker, have the knowledge to do specific jobs. Note that Aziraphale not only doesn't know how to make stars and nebulas, he's not even clear on what a nebula is. We can safely assume from that that angels don't all possess the same set of knowledge and skills purely by virtue (heh) of being angels.

We don't see, however, how much of what they know is simply an angel's birthright versus how much of it is somehow educated into them. We also don't know how She divvies up necessary knowledge, though I'd think it safe (given most takes on angelology) to guess that angelic rank and intended function are part of Her calculus, perhaps even the whole of it.

What strikes me hardest is that angels seem to be created either as adults or children (which is what I believe the scareable "cherubs" are), and they may well never change that state. The Starmaker is childlike in some ways, but not a child. Likely never was a child! Aziraphale, Before the Beginning, isn't childlike at all; his personality seems pretty close to fully-formed.

And children learn so very, very much. Babies learn so much as babies, while their neuroplasticity is super super plastic! Especially they learn about relating to other beings! (Which the Starmaker is conspicuously Not Real Great at, honestly -- absorbed in the work of creation, the Starmaker does not pick up the feelings Aziraphale is laying down at all.)

Children also learn one OR MORE languages, and that "more" is rather important, because language shapes how we think to some extent (the extent of that extent, and its nature, are objects of fierce debate among linguists and neuroscientists), and different languages shape us differently. Just as Crowley (as plenty of theologians argue) did humanity a favor with the whole knowledge-of-good-and-evil thing, the Tower of Babel (assuming that was a thing that happened in the GOverse; no reason it wouldn't have, I suppose) added a whole lot of nuance and complexity and competing understandings to humanity's sense of itself and its universe.

Exactly how angels and demons manage to speak all human languages (which Crowley indicates they can) isn't clear. If we accept that the Tower of Babel happened, both Heaven and Hell must have had to figure out a way to deal with it.

We do see, however, that angels and demons can be fluent in human languages without being fluent in human thought or human cultures. Gabriel and Sandalphon speak perfect English yet barely know which end of a book is up. Hastur and Ligur can't disentangle ciao/chow. And, I mean, actual food? Fuhgeddaboudit. So I see their linguistic facility as a sort of Douglas Adams Babel fish: it can translate an angel's or demon's thought into the target language, but it can't help an angel or demon think like an actual speaker of that language.

As an example, Gabriel can tell Job and Sitis about their new children, perfectly fluently. His purely-linguistic fluency does not help him understand that they loved their old children, much less why.

This may explain why Aziraphale studied French under M. Rossignol. He perhaps didn't feel he understood how French speakers think, and was interested enough in that to learn the language (as other meta-ists have noted, the language of love!) the human way.

So yeah, if I have a conclusion here it's that angels and demons can seem as off-center as they often do from a human perspective because they wholly missed out on a key period of human brain development.

What they have in its place appears to be... rules. Which is, I think, where I'll take this next.

#good omens #good omens meta #heaven and hell #the starmaker #aziraphale #hastur #ligur #babel fish #language and culture #tower of babel

[facts-i-just-made-up]

This is for a school project. When was the first fanfiction?

The biblical tale of the Tower of Babel is in fact, fanfiction.

Written in 2989 B.Y.A. (before you asked), the tale of the tower's construction itself is based heavily on earlier writings such as the Tale of Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta from ancient Babylon. The original included the story of a tower so tall that it angered the gods, but focused mainly on various political conflicts.

The story of the Tower of Babel took the story of the tower and ran with it. Moses, who had already written most of Genesis as a self insert for Ao3 (in those time, Ao3 referred to "Assyria's old orange omphalos," on which many ancient tales were inscribed) decided to repeat the elder tale because he thought it was just pretty darn cool and it explained a lot about why people from Mt. Sinai are like "Shalom" but people from Jabal Maqla are all "Salaam."

#fanfic #ao3 #fanfiction #bible #tower of babel #unreality

[arrayed-in-purple]

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧ç𝐨𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐦é (𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟑-𝟏𝟔𝟑𝟎)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡- 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬

#tower of babel #religious art #history of art #art blog #François de Nomé #religious aesthetic #theology #art history #oil painting #french art #dark art #babel #Babylon

[monochromevt]

#meme #sumerian #tower of babel #tower of babble #history memes

[jareckiworld]

Mitsuru Watanabe — Naoko with Leonardo in Babel (oil on canvas, 2014)

#Mitsuru Watanabe #japanese art #metamodernism #cats in art #tower of babel