A layered tower rises in the mist, massive and thrust straight up like an axis of stone and air. This is Etemenanki, the temple tower of Babylon, a ziggurat built as the foundation of heaven and earth.
"The temple whose top touches the sky, Etemenanki, house of the foundations of heaven and earth."
- Babylonian inscription (Nebuchadnezzar II)
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Sing to us, ancient voices, of stories that do not fade.
Of Gilgamesh who sought to escape death, of Icarus who flew too high,
of the tower that reached for heaven and the gate that led to the underworld.
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