Actually, it is thought they were building a kind of "portal" to the heavenly dimension. A kind of artificial Mt Hermon, which was the portal through which the "watchers" were said to have had ingress and egress to and from our dimension.
BTW, keep in mind that it was Nimrod who was the driving force for the Tower of Babel. Nimrod was himself a demigod (half-breed or Nephilim). Nimrod was, it has been said, trying to regain access to the world from which he and/or his ancestors had been ejected (in the Fall of Angels).
The concept in the Babel narrative is that man was building a tower to Heaven
Actually, it is thought they were building a kind of “portal” to the heavenly dimension. A kind of artificial Mt Hermon, which was the portal through which the “watchers” were said to have had ingress and egress to and from our dimension.
BTW, keep in mind that it was Nimrod who was the driving force for the Tower of Babel. Nimrod was himself a demigod (half-breed or Nephilim). Nimrod was, it has been said, trying to regain access to the world from which he and/or his ancestors had been ejected (in the
Gen 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
Their purpose was to centralize power. To be in control, just like today’s current governments.....................