European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is of the week and they said one to Fin let us Inuke and Horn them Anil they Hud Brick or and slime had they for and they go let us Lull in u lower whose lop May reach unto heaven and let us make us n lest we he scattered abroad upon the face of the whole genesis 34 almost everyone is familiar with the biblical account of the Tower of that monolithic Structure which Wai to Ower so High that u would breach the Summit of heaven u would have stood forever a a Monument to mans Pride had god not seen in the Bible to put a Slop to the project by causing a confusion of but How Many know that there really was a Tower of and that it was completed not once but Many limes Over the centuries of its existence it fell into such extreme disrepair that its up per parts had to be rebuilt by a Succes Sion of Many of whom spoke languages different from those of their pre and All this happened thou Sands of years before the biblical account of the Tower was Ever the real Tower of Bubel was already in existence More than years be fore the birth of and the names we use for our Days of the week arc connected with the Tower was originally built As a religious shrine by an ancient the who lived in the Valley Between the Tigris and euphrates Riv ers in the centuries following 4000 this a desert waste in the heart of in those Days a wonderfully Fertile Valley with Fields of Corn and Barley and Groves of Dute and Tig Trees stretching As far As the Eye could the Valley was interlaced by a beautifully scientific system of Man made irrigation canals connecting into the euphrates this Valley be tween the later As Mesopotamia is thought by some to be the site of the Garden of by Ien Williams the Smih dans built Many such shrines All Over culled Ziggy rails but most were Small Anil insignificant in when the invading semitic akkadian under the my Shiv conquered Hie area in they called the City surrounding the or the late of the akkadian in bal was to become known in English As the fabled City of the first great modifier of Laws in the Western world and the builder of the hanging later to make this City his capital and to order that the Tower be rebuilt and restored to us original the greatest Ziggurat of them All became famous throughout the world As the Tower of and it was during the babylonian Cap that the jews were first to come into Contact with it a thousand years after the death of the original Tower Rose in a series of seven enormous the first stage had an area of almost Square feet and was More than 105 feet the highest the Golden Temple the lowered 288 feet in the making the Structure As till As the statue of lib erty and much More fifty eight million bricks went into the Tow ers and the result was an imposing mass that dominated the sur rounding each of its stages was dedicated to one of the seven plan ets which the babylonians worshipped As but the ancient sumerian and ionian priests counted off the seven planets like his lie the Venus and so the stages of he Tower of Babel were dedicated not Only to five of the planets As we know but also to the Sun and the the seven deities of Ion have come Down to us years in the names we use for the Days of the the division of the modern week into seven Days goes Back to the ancient Mesopotamia astr Olocco priests of about the Topmost stage of the Golden walled Sanctuary of was dedicated to the whose Day of worship was the first Day of the the of or hero the greatest historian of says on the Summit of the Topmost Tower stands a great Temple Vith a Fine Larce Couch on richly and a Golden table beside the shrine contains no and no one spends the night there except one assyrian nil whoever it May be that the god has and he adds they also i do not believe the god enters the Temple in person and takes his rest upon the immediately below this Golden Temple of the Sun was a stage bedecked with Silver and dedicated to the god of the whose rites were celebrated on the Day of the tuesday was set aside for the Wor ship of the red planet whom the babylonians called the god of turbulence and and the third stage from the lop of he Tower was consequently decked out in Brilliant the French still Call this Day or the Day of our own word tuesday is named after the germanic god of turbulence and the Lowers fourth stage from the lop was dedicated to the Blue planet Mercury and the god of Wisdom and although the French still Call this deity special Day Mercredi or Mercury Day the germanic Peoples identified Ihler own god Woden Ullh the Day and called it widens eng Lish pronunciation Down through the Cen Turies has transformed this into on any thursday in ancient Mesopotamia the people devoted to the Wor ship of Jupiter could be seen flocking to the Tower of the fifth stage from the resplendent in Royal Pur was dedicated to the babylonian he Grent cod of Thunder and lightning whom the greeks knew As zeus and the romans As the English names for the planets derive from latin and they thus correspond to the names the romans gave to the that Why we Call the planet the germanic Peoples identified this deity with their own Thunder god the germans Call thursday the Day of and our own word thursday simply Means Thors the Only female divinity in the planetary pantheon was the goddess of she was the Mother and sister of All the gods and was later to become notorious in and roman we know her her stage of the the sixth from the was decked out in virginal and her Day of the week was ishtar was known to the greeks us the infamous a Slart and to the phoenicians and hebrews As Ash whose riles Are referred to in the Bible As the abominable worship in the High our modern Fri Day is named after the nordic Fertility goddess Frigga or whom Hie germanic Peoples identified with Venus and the massive Bottom stage of the Tower of Babel was dedicated to the last of the then known Saturn Day has come Down to us As this great and the Wor ship connected with existed ions be fore the Hulk of the old testament had been but the worship itself be Gan to die out before the birth of and the once mighty Monument fell gradually into a state of disrepair and ruin so Complete that it was never again to be rebuilt or All that remains of the Tower of Babel today is a handful of rubble and dust in the Sands of the iraqi and the names of the seven Days of the week scattered in a multitude of different tongues throughout the this design nerved c Model for reconstruction of lower for Dino de Laute Liis the the staks and stripes 3