What is kind of neat about the Book of Genesis is that it explains some of the 'weird' things about the world we live in... why men have Adam's apples, why we wear clothes even if it's 110 degrees out, why snakes are scary to us, etc. Furthermore Genesis tells about the Tower of Babel, the mighty man-built edifice designed to reach heaven.
However, its subsequent destruction by lightning symbolizes the chastisement of Pride and the downfall of the intellect, for here man attempts to uncover the mystery of God, and instead his mind is overwhelmed by it.
The Tower of Babel also symbolizes confusion - it was there that people began to mix up the original lingua franca into the hundreds of languages that exist today. (Gen. 11: 4-9.) Now you know where the word "babble" comes from.
The tower was later added to the 22 cards of the Tarot deck's Major Arcana. Depending on the context, some could consider it an even worse card than the Devil or Death.
Common representations have a tower struck by lightning with Nimrod falling to the jagged rocks below. (I here replaced poor Nimrod with a more deserving S tetrad.) Common interpretations include: blows to the ego, revelations (as in "Why was I so stupid, having not thought of that before...?"), confusion and chaos, and overall destruction.
(Return.)