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Nimrod and the Tower of Babel


By Richard Mathewson
Writing under the banner of The NorseQuill Society

With Nimrod, we reach the bones of legend, where myth and memory bleed into one another—and the threads of ancient truth have been tangled by time, fear, and design.


This tale, shrouded in mystery, is long, and older than even the stones remember.


Let us examine this enigmatic individual and restore clarity to a truth long buried.


Who Was Nimrod?


Nimrod, known in extant records as a “mighty man before the Lord,” was not fully human. He was a hybrid, the product of post-Deluge genetic manipulation, likely descended from the mingling of human and Watchers’ bloodline.


His might, his charisma, and his dominion were not solely from natural lineage.


He was born of Cush, son of Ham—Noah’s line, yes—but not of the righteous branch. His genetic nature was altered, not by accident, but by design. Whether this design came from the Anunnaki, the Igigi, or other off-world custodians, the essence is this: he was chosen to be a vessel of power, a counterforce to the divine directive that came after the Flood.


Nimrod’s bloodline was not only mingled—it was engineered. There are strong echoes of Sumerian kingship in his origins [associating him with the Epic of Gilgamesh], where rulers were described as “those who came from heaven to earth.” His very body was a rebellion.


Nimrod was a mighty one. He was indeed a man of flesh, a king in the true sense, a descendant of great power. He was also an embodiment of rebellion, a soul seeking to prove his might over the heavens.


His wisdom was vast, his knowledge from realms far beyond this world. And yet, his ambition, so wild and unbridled, led him to forget the balance between the physical and the divine.


Who Built the Tower—and Why?

The Tower of Babel is not just a tale from ancient times, nor merely a structure of stone reaching toward the heavens. It is a symbol—one that speaks to the eternal struggle within every soul.


The people, united under Nimrod’s rule, sought to rise above the Divine Order, to build their name and power as though they could challenge the forces of the Elohim themselves. Their unity, while strong, was grounded in pride. They thought that they could reach the heavens and claim dominion over the earth, not through wisdom, but through will. But as always, the Elohim saw the seeds of destruction in their desire. To take a path where the soul forgets its place in the grand design is to walk a path toward fragmentation.


Josephus wrote of this in his The Antiquities of the Jews:


Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God [against the Divine Order]. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah,—a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny,—seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into constant dependence upon his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach! and that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers! [Here, Nimrod appears to associate himself with the giant offspring of the fallen Watchers.]


Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God: and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it it grew very high sooner than anyone could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water [this measure was in response to the previous destruction from the Great Flood].


The historical Book of Jasher mentioned this attempt by Nimrod to usurp the Divine Order:


And king Nimrod reigned securely, and all the earth was under his control, and all the earth was of one tongue and words of union.


And all the princes of Nimrod and his great men took counsel together; Phut, Mitzraim, Cush and Canaan with their families, and they said to each other, Come let us build ourselves a city and in it a strong tower, and its top reaching heaven, and we will make ourselves famed, so that we may reign upon the whole world, in order that the evil of our enemies may cease from us, that we may reign mightily over them, and that we may not become scattered over the earth on account of their wars.


And they all went before the king, and they told the king these words, and the king agreed with them in this affair, and he did so.


And all the families assembled consisting of about six hundred thousand men, and they went to seek an extensive piece of ground to build the city and the tower, and they sought in the whole earth and they found none like one valley at the east of the land of Shinar, about two days’ walk, and they journeyed there and they dwelt there.


And they began to make bricks and burn fires to build the city and the tower that they had imagined to complete…


The Old Testament book of Genesis 11:1-4 from the Judeo-Christian canon closely followed the Tower of Babel account from the Book of Jasher:


And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.


The Tower of Babel was not simply an act of communal construction. The tower they sought to build was more than stone and brick. It was their pride manifested in the physical.


It was a covert operation wrapped in public zeal—a manipulation. The masses believed they were building a monument to unity and survival. In truth, it was orchestrated by a cabal—a small group of powerful, altered beings, led by Nimrod and his priest-scientists.


The Tower was not merely a ziggurat—it was a Stargate.


It was a dimensional access point, built at a precise location where ley lines converged, creating a natural energetic highway to other realms. The materials used, the rituals conducted during its construction, and the geometry—all were designed to pierce the veil. This was not metaphor—it was technology. Spiritual technology.


Their aim was not merely to reach “heaven” as in the clouds—but to access higher realms, challenge the Elohim, and usurp the boundaries set after the Deluge. This was a cosmic rebellion, not unlike that of the Watchers who descended before the Flood.

Did They Know They Were Rebelling?


Yes. At least the architects did. But this was prophesied by Enoch before the Great Flood.


In the Book of Noah, Methuselah, father of Lamech, went to Enoch to inquire why Lamech’s son, Noah, as an infant appeared “in the likeness of the angels of heaven [the fallen Watchers].” In this encounter, Enoch spoke of the coming judgment on the fallen Watchers and their giant offspring in the form of the Great Flood, but he also warned that even after the Flood, there would be still more rebellion against the Divine Order:


And I, Enoch, answered and said to [Enoch’s son, Methuselah]: “The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to you that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven violated the word of the Lord. And they commit sin and broke the law, and have had sex with women and committed sin with them, and have married some of them, and have had children by them. And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. There shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a flood and a great destruction for one year. And this son who has been born to you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die, he and his sons shall be saved…


And now make known to your son, Lamech, that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come on the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be full on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be more unrighteousness than that which was done before on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read in heavenly tablets. And I saw written about them that generation after generation shall transgress, until a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes on it...”


Nimrod was an embodiment of this “unrighteousness,” and he and his inner circle knew exactly what they were doing. They intended to reclaim the power of the pre-Flood age—the age of the gods, when humans mingled with celestial beings and walked among stars.


But the common people? They were largely misled—thinking they were building a monument to unity, safety, or even divine favor.


It was pride. But not naïve pride—calculated, defiant pride.

This act violated Universal Law, specifically the Law of Dimensional Harmony—which forbids premature ascension or manipulation of realms without alignment to Divine Will.


In simpler terms: they tried to open doors without the keys, and without permission.


What Happened as a Result?


There was no mass slaughter—but there was karmic consequence. The Elohim, acting as cosmic stewards—not angry deities—intervened. They saw that humanity, still in infancy after the Flood, was being led into destruction again.


The Elohim, wise in their knowing, dispersed the people, scattering their unity through a single act—one that shattered their shared language and their ambitions. They could no longer understand each other. Language was fragmented, not out of cruelty, but as a mercy—to halt the momentum of a disaster. Communication was the fuel; to cut it was to break the spell.


In his The Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus wrote:


When God [Elohim] saw that they acted so madly he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not growing wiser by the destruction of the former sinners [by the Great Flood]; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them divers languages: and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place where in they built the tower is now called Babylon; because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, Confusion.


The Book of Jasher spoke of this confusion of language at the Tower of Babel:


And God said to the seventy angels who stood foremost before him, to those who were near to him, saying, Come let us descend and confuse their tongues, that one man shall not understand the language of his neighbor, and they did so unto them.


And from that day following, they forgot each man his neighbor’s tongue, and they could not understand to speak in one tongue, and when the builder took from the hands of his neighbor lime or stone which he did not order, the builder would cast it away and throw it upon his neighbor, that he would die.


And they did so many days, and they killed many of them in this manner.


The book of Genesis 11:5-9 echoed the account from the Book of Jasher:


And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.


Those who led the rebellion were scattered—not just physically, but spiritually. Their karmic debt would follow them into future incarnations.


Nimrod himself…was sealed. His spirit did not reincarnate in the usual cycle. He became a warning, and a magnet for future rebellion archetypes.


Their great Tower, the symbol of their unity, fell. It was in that moment, that the Elohim showed them the futility of challenging the divine order. Unity without wisdom leads to chaos. The lesson here is as clear as it is eternal.


Who Were the Elohim?


This is the question beneath all questions.


The Elohim were not one race. They were a council—a collective of higher-dimensional beings, operating within Divine Law, tasked with shepherding the development of intelligent life on Earth.


Some would call them Pleiadeans, some Sirian, some from what many now call Arcturus. Others beyond names.


They are not "gods" in the mythic sense, but engineers of worlds, custodians, watchers from the higher realms. Some walk close to Source. Others further.


The confusion of names—Elohim, Anunnaki, Igigi—stems from the fragmented lenses of human perception across cultures and ages.


But the Elohim who intervened at Babel did so to protect the timeline—not to punish, but to preserve. Had the Tower succeeded, humanity would have torn through dimensions it could not comprehend, and awakened forces far worse than judgment.


When Did This Occur?


In human time, the Tower of Babel event occurred roughly 6,000 to 6,500 years ago, though echoes of the event stretch through many myths and oral histories.

It was a literal structure likely built near ancient Eridu or Babylon, but it also holds symbolic resonance. It represents all human attempts to force ascension without inner transformation.


This story was not wholly figurative. It was an actual event, with literal architecture, but layered in cosmic consequence. The Tower was real. The rebellion was real. And the gods who stopped it were not wrathful—they were wise.


Remember this: This is the lesson of Nimrod. To be born with wisdom from the stars does not mean that one is destined for greatness; it is how one chooses to walk that path that determines the soul’s evolution. This is the Law of Free Will. It is through humility that true power is found. It is the humble heart that truly ascends, not the one filled with pride and desire for power.

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