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That's really ambiguous. I read it to mean deep springs in heaven opened and it rained from them.
by anon4 12y ago
That's really ambiguous. I read it to mean deep springs in heaven opened and it rained from them.
- espadrine 12y agoIt isn't ambiguous under the commonly accepted scientific facts of the time, in that particular civilization. They believed that they were on a flat earth under a dome that separated the atmosphere from huge amounts of water above (hence the blue color of the sky) and below (hence the oceans). They believed that the dome leaked sometimes, causing rain. They believed that the flat earth leaked too, causing rivers. More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_cosmology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_cosmology
- huxley 12y agoTed Chiang played around with ancient Near East cosmology to great effect in his story "The Tower of Babylon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babylon_(story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babylon_(story)
- saucetenuto 12y agoSeems dubious given the other half of the line. The author wrote "the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened". Did they mean "it rained, and also it rained"?