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Short Story 'By The Waters Of Babylon'

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In the short story, By the Waters of Babylon, the narrator is on a journey for knowledge and discovers unexpected truths that change his beliefs. On his journey, John makes the highly significant discovery that the Place of the Gods was just a city, and that the Gods themselves weren’t actually gods; in fact, they were man, just lie to himself and his people. This shatters all of the myths, taboos, and many cultural beliefs of his people.
A lot of their existence centers around those mythical “gods” and the strict rules concerning their dead places and the great burning. John realizes, on his journey, the significance of this discovery. He states, “It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe.” He also realizes while he was there that
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