"....Pastor George mentioned that the first time he heard of the Tower of Babel story in Sunday School, he raised his hand in
indignation, saying ‘You white-fellers have it wrong, the origin of languages didn’t happen in the Middle East, that happened up here, near Cooktown. My grandmother told me our story, it’s just like that one.’
His grandmother had heard it when she was a young girl, long before their people had had contact with missionaries.
His people have a Flood story, too, which has clearly become modified to the conditions of Australia’s tropical north. He said, ‘Our story says that people were breaking the laws of our ancestor spirit (the one who created everything and gave life), which made him angry and he sent a huge cyclone which just rained and rained and gradually flooded the whole area except for the top of a hill. The few that made it there were saved; the rest were drowned or eaten by crocodiles as they tried to swim to this safe place.’" CMI
His grandmother had heard it when she was a young girl, long before their people had had contact with missionaries.
His people have a Flood story, too, which has clearly become modified to the conditions of Australia’s tropical north. He said, ‘Our story says that people were breaking the laws of our ancestor spirit (the one who created everything and gave life), which made him angry and he sent a huge cyclone which just rained and rained and gradually flooded the whole area except for the top of a hill. The few that made it there were saved; the rest were drowned or eaten by crocodiles as they tried to swim to this safe place.’" CMI
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.
Genesis 11:9
