What I find so interesting is the connection of the occult to Babylon dating back to Nimrod and the tower of Babel.
I watched a video last night of a Military man in charge over Babylon who interestingly is also a layman historian so to speak and showed pictures and some very interesting comments concerning his time in Babylon.
Though he said there is some dispute....”Nimrod” seems to have been the first one to lay a brick in the building of Babylon. He explained how Babylon is built one city on top of the other and you can still see the walls 60 ft. down from those all the others have built ontop...including Saddams. Amazing how much of the ruins are still “pristine” as he said...and it was interesting seeing right where Daniel had walked and such.
The tour he gave was one of the most enjoyable speakers I’ve heard in this type of documentary as he was humble about what he knew...and mixed his talking points with what he had seen there from a Military position. Very interesting photos unlike those done and screened by professionals.
But Nimrod was a very evil type of guy. So many pagan and occult practices flourished then.
The earliest source to mention Babylon may be a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (ca. 24th century BC short chronology). The so-called "Weidner Chronicle" states that it was Sargon himself who built Babylon "in front of Akkad" (ABC 19:51). Another chronicle likewise states that Sargon "dug up the dirt of the pit of Babylon, and made a counterpart of Babylon next to Agade". (ABC 20:18-19). More recently, some researchers have stated that those sources may refer to Sargon II of the Neo-Assyrian Empire rather than Sargon of AkkadThis indicates that it was an Akkadian city, not the older Sumerian. The tower of Babel should instead be associated with what was the city of Eridu. Eridu is older -- a Sumerian city from the 4th millenium BC, probably as old or older than Uruk