THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES – THE TOWER AND THE TITANIAN WAR

Origin/Historian/Author: The Sibylline Oracles
Source: Ancient Fragments, I.P. Cory

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BUT when the judgements of the Almighty God
Were ripe for execution; when the Tower
Rose to the skies upon Assyria’s plain,
And all mankind one language only knew:
A dread commission from on high was given
To the fell whirlwinds, which with dire alarms
Beat on the Tower, and to its lowest base
Shook it convulsed. And now all intercourse,
By some occult and overruling power,
Ceased among men: by utterance they strove
Perplexed and anxious to disclose their mind;
But their lip failed them; and in lieu of words
Produced a painful babbling sound: the place
Was thence called Babel; by th’ apostate crew
Named from the event. Then severed far away
They sped uncertain into the realms unknows:
Thus kingdoms rose; and the glad world was filled.
She then mentions Cronus, Titan and Jäpetus, and the three sons of the patriarch governing the world in the tenth generation after the deluge, thus,

The triple division of the earth is afterwards mentioned, over which each of the patriarchs ruled in peace.

Then the death of Noah, and lastly the war between Cronus and Titan.