Tower of Babel
Where each worldview places it
William Cooper, David Icke: named but not placed in a tier
Position
Cooper speculates its destruction was the continental breakup and scattering of peoples. / Where Masons were first organized into a corporate body; its fall ended the second golden age.
Symbolic story of the "Lord" (extraterrestrials) dividing humanity by language; the builders were rebelling against control. / Story echoed by the Hopi mocking-bird tale of confused languages.
Places
Babylon
Babylon; Babylonia
Sources