Mom Goose Investigations – How Far it’s to Babylon?

How far is it to Babylon? In line with the poem, 3 rating and 10 (or 70 miles). Babylon is current day Iraq.

Locations that 70 miles from Iraq are current day Syria, current day Turkey, Iran (beforehand Persia in fact), Kuwait and Jordan. Given the questioner makes use of miles and miles are Roman, this counsel Roman occupied Jordan.

Babylon within the New Testomony both refers to Rome, or refers to an evil place. The Rastafarian phrase combines these meanings and makes Babylon imply an oppressive system.
However this nonetheless will not be the what the rhyme means.

What’s essential is what occurs subsequent within the rhyme. You can get to by candlelight and again once more. This certainly guidelines it out as an actual place.

Although 70 miles shouldn’t be far as we speak, it could be troublesome to get that far at evening time. It must be identified you’re travelling holding a candle-this certainly means strolling. One thing is definitely unsuitable right here…

Nicely the English model appears to be about strolling, the Scots model appears to be a couple of horse and the questioner needing to have vibrant spurs-what that has to do with travelling quick shouldn’t be positive.
Evidently Babylon is any far-off (or seemingly far-off metropolis) like Timbuktu of as we speak. How many individuals know that Timbuktu is in Mali? Not many, to most it’s only a handy far-off place.
One other idea is that Babylon is a corruption of Child land-this doesn’t significantly maintain up. It does appear that the identify Babylon got here from Babel, to speak. This refers back to the legend of a (Babylonian) tower which fell down as a result of everybody spoke totally different languages.

Evidently the place the traveller goes to appears a bit extra actual than that. No matter it’s about, its a rhyme concerning the mysteries of journey.

Mom Goose Investigations – How Far it’s to Babylon?

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