Babylon Re-enters My Life After Thousands of Years

 

I don’t know the day Babylon turned up in my life for certain, but it was sometime in 2003 -2004.  (This photo was more like 2017) We were remodeling the old gift shop by taking the remaining offices and turning them into display space.  That meant Babylon couldn’t stay in the office any longer.  I didn’t have any office space that wasn’t in the middle of all that chaos, so he needed to find a new home.  He made that home with Howie and I on the island.   He was about 8 months old when he came into our lives.  He had been left at the front gate in a carrier with a baby brush and a note saying his name was Boots.  He was dying from crystals blocking his urethra and staff had taken him to the vet for emergency care.  He was so near death that he was allowing our keepers to give him IV fluids as he laid motionless on the desk. 

 

He got his name because the first time I saw him I exclaimed, out loud, "I haven't seen you since Babylon!"  Everyone in the room turned to look at me, wondering what the hell that outburst was about.  I didn’t care.  I was just so happy to see my precious soul mate all these eons later.  He was laying on the corner of a desk, with an IV hanging from above giving him fluids.  We had locked eyes the minute I walked in and in addition to not knowing what I was babbling on about, the people in the room noticed their patient seemed to have emerged from death’s door to raise his head.

 

I’ve had this print, of a big cat leaning into the blonde since the 90s and it is exactly the way Babylon would always sit with me .  Note the cat’s paws wrapped around her hand.  Babylon would lean deep into me as if to become one with me.  He would often reach up and stroke my face, gently with his polydactyl paws.  He did the same with Howie, but no one else.

 

 

History:  Babylon had its last moment of fame under Nebuchadnezzar II. rule (605 – 562 BC), who aimed to force Egypt out of Palestina and Syria. He broke into Judah several times, seized Jerusalem and dragged local people off. But Nebuchadnezzar II had only weak successors and the empire declined gradually after his death, till Persian Cyrus conquered Babylon without fighting.

 

Babylonia was only a run-down province of Persia in half of the 4th century BC. When Alexander the Great defeated the Persians and came into the city in 331 BC, he was welcomed as a liberator. Alexander the Great died there on June 13th, 323 BC.

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.