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Jiang reads the Tower of Babel story as a possible Israelite satire of pyramid ambition: humans try to build up to God, fail, and are mocked or punished by God.
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Jiang reads the Tower of Babel story as a possible Israelite satire of pyramid ambition: humans try to build up to God, fail, and are mocked or punished by God.
Jiang extends the Tower of Babel comparison by saying the pyramid is a tower-like attempt to reach God that fails and invites divine mockery and punishment.
"...in the Bible make fun of them because there's the Tower of Babel story, right? The Tower of Babel story where the humans are..."
"And you can argue that that's what the pyramid is. And God laughs at them and mocks them. And they never succeed. And then..."
A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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