By the Waters of Babylon

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By the Waters of Babylon

• pg. 110

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Pay attention to the setting and ask yourself

• Is this story set in
• The past
• The present
• Or the future?

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Also, write these words down and after the story,
see if you can figure out what they mean

• 1. Dead Places
• 2. The Great River
• 3. Old books writings
• 4. Old Days
• 5. Place of the Gods
• 6. God-road
• 7. Ou-dis-sun

• 8. Bitter Water
• 9. UBTREAS
• 10. ASHING
• 11. The temple with the
  stars for a roof
• 12. The dead god

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The Dead Places were

• Houses or dwellings of humans who died a long
  time ago

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The Great River, Ou-dis-sun was

• The Hudson River

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• Old Books and Writings were
• Books written in English that existed before our
  society was destroyed
• The Old Days were.
• The days before The Great Burning, our present
  day

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The God Roads were

• The Concrete roads we used to use

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The Bitter Water was

• The Ocean

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The Place of the Gods wasNew York
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UBTREAS was

• The Sub Treasury in New York,
• now called Federal Hall National Memorial

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Ashing was

• A Statue of George Washington in Union Square,
  New York City

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The temple with the stars for a roof was

• The ceiling at Grand Central Station

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Who do you think the dead god sitting in the
chair was?
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This was a fantasy story but several things,
although they sounded odd, were based in reality.
Some examples are

• 1. Priests, chants and spells
• 2. A purification process
• 3. Interpreting animals as signs
• 4. Cultures in the future having less knowledge
  than cultures in the past

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Priests, Chants and Spells

• The Cherokee have similar chants, spells, and
  dances
• The Cherokee had many lively dances. In the uka
  dance, the chief, or uka himself offered
  thanksgiving in a spirit of rejoicing

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A Purification process

• Some Native Americans also have a purification
  process
• The individual goes alone into the wilderness to
  a sacred place where he fasts, thirsts, smokes
  tobacco, prays, and meditates for a vision.
• Vision quests are mostly undertaken by males
  usually when entering puberty, but sometimes in
  childhood.
• They also have maturity rituals, sometimes called
  vision quests
• Young boys before or at puberty are encouraged to
  enter into a period of fasting, meditation and
  physical challenge. He separates himself from the
  tribe and go to a wilderness area. The goal is to
  receive a vision that will guide his development
  for the rest of his life. They also seek to
  acquire a guardian spirit who will be close and
  supportive for their lifetime.

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Interpreting animals as signs

• In the Cherokee religion, The Eagle, flying
  toward the East, is a symbol of strength,
  endurance and vision. East signifies the renewal
  of life and the rebirth of Cherokee unity.

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Also, Egyptians believed cats to be sacred

• When a cat died their former owners and occupants
  of the house would
• go into deep mourning and shave their eyebrows as
  a sign of grief. People
• are not the only mummies in Egypt, as the cat
  was also mummified
• significantly.
• Cats were not only protected by almost every
  occupant of Egypt, but also
• by the law. So extreme in fact was the
  devoutness of the Egyptian culture
• to the cat, that if a human killed a feline,
  either intentionally or
• unintentionally, that human was sentenced to
  death.

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Cultures in the future having less knowledge than
cultures in the past

• Examples
• Roman bathrooms
• Bathhouses also had large public latrines, often
  with marble seats over channels whose continuous
  flow of water constituted the first flush
  toilets

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This was in 117 A.D. Lets check out the early
1900s
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2,000 years later, their toilets looked like this
Usually the father of the family dug a new hole a
few feet from the outhouse, moved it onto the new
hole, then took the dirt and filled in the old
hole. However, I know an uncle who got in there
with a shovel because he didn't feel like digging
a new hole.
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What about the concept of flight?

• Between 1899 and 1905 A.D., the Wright brothers
  conducted a program of aeronautical research and
  experimentation that led to the first successful
  powered airplane in 1903

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But the actual concept of flight is much, much
older
These are in ancient Egypt
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• Compare them

Helicopters
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Gliders
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These carvings were made at least 3,000 years
BEFORE the Wright Brothers took their first flight
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What about homes?These were the homes built and
used in early James town in the 1700s
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These, are the pyramids of Giza, constructed some
time around 2600 B.C.
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This is the construction of the inside
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These pyramids are at least 4,000 OLDER than the
Jamestown settlement
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