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I feel obligated then to talk about Babylon and how funny it is. The Babylonians were the most cartoonish villain society that ever existed. Reading about them in Herodotus it's just too much.
Maybe I partly have a festination with it because it tickles my fantasies. Women were all forced to serve as cult prostitutes once in their life, they sit in the temple and you'd go up to one of them and toss a coin at them and use them. And the uglier ones Herodotus said would be could be there months or years until someone uses them. They also bought wives in their society, once a year they'd bring the unmarried women to the centre of town and have a bidding for them, and the uglier ones, rather than bidding money to have them, it was a bid to see who would receive the least amount of money for them, so you'd get the ugly girl plus money and the part of the money was paid for by the sale of the prettier girls. Although technically Herodotus says this practice was no longer in use in his time but he says it was one of the most noble acts the Babylonians did which is weird because he said the forced cult prostitution was shameful.
When they were under siege they just killed all their women to make rations survive longer, the Babylonians are so funny. In the time of Herodotus the Tower of Babel was being used by bringing a woman to the top of it and she would sit on a red couch and a god would come down and have sex with her was the idea. Wouldn't it be cool if the tower of Babel was still around, Alexander the Great got rid of it, he was planning on rebuilding it, is what I understand I never read the ancient documents of Alexander the Great myself. But because the Babylonians killed all their women they really lost their peoplegroup, as God said, God said he'd TOTALLY eradicate the Babylonians and he did, their city which was once the centre of the world totally gone, their people group gone.
