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These buildings were called by the Babylonians ''ziqqurātu'' (Modern English: "ziggurat"), apparently meaning “peak,” or the highest point of a mountain; this word being applied to the mountain height upon which Ut-napishtim, the Babylonian Noah of the Gilgamesh saga, offered sacrifices on coming forth from the ark (or ship) when the waters of the great Flood had sufficiently subsided. It has also been conjectured that they were used as observatories when the Babylonians studied the starry heavens. While the ziggurats were of no great height, sufficient height would be needed to surmount the evening smoke that would linger over the city as the night's cooking, light and heating needs filled the air with smoke that was pressed near the ground by the evening's cool air. Doubtless rising above the evening's dull warm glow of light pollution (partially shrouded in smoke) also gave a clearer view of the stellar heavens as they practiced simultaneously the art of Astronomy and the imposition of Astrology thereon.
These buildings were called by the Babylonians ''ziqqurātu'' (Modern English: "ziggurat"), apparently meaning “peak,” or the highest point of a mountain; this word being applied to the mountain height upon which Ut-napishtim, the Babylonian Noah of the Gilgamesh saga, offered sacrifices on coming forth from the ark (or ship) when the waters of the great Flood had sufficiently subsided. It has also been conjectured that they were used as observatories when the Babylonians studied the starry heavens. While the ziggurats were of no great height, sufficient height would be needed to surmount the evening smoke that would linger over the city as the night's cooking, light and heating needs filled the air with smoke that was pressed near the ground by the evening's cool air. Doubtless rising above the evening's dull warm glow of light pollution (partially shrouded in smoke) also gave a clearer view of the stellar heavens as they practiced simultaneously the art of Astronomy and the imposition of Astrology thereon.
==Babylonian Description of the Tower==
==Babylonian Description of the Tower==