The Destruction of Pompeii
| “ | Something did erupt in Pompeii but it wasn't a volcano...not exactly, that is. One of the four towers of Babel was underneath it. And knowing this Mundus decided to get back at Sparda by prematurely raising it from beneath the Earth. He thought it would give him the power to put Sparda down but all it gave him was a spanking in the end. Doesn't change the fact that so many people died that day. It haunted Sparda for many years, too. He had the powers of a god...yet he couldn't save all those people. | „ |
| ~ Gabriel |
The Destruction of Pompeii was a disastrous event that involved the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in southern Italy, in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest in European history.
Overview[]
While it is believed to be the eruption of a volcano, it was in fact due to the premature rising of one of the four Towers of Babel that was constructed and later hidden beneath the Earth.
The cause of the tower's eruption was Mundus, who was attempting the harness the power that lay within the tower to dominate the Earth after his defeat by Sparda. However, this caused a major setback for Lucifer's plan and Mundus was severely punished by Beelzebub.
History[]
Background[]
One of Babel Towers rose from within Mount Vesuvius which resulted in a violent spewing of deadly clouds of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.At the time, the region was a part of the Roman Empire, and several Roman cities were obliterated and buried underneath massive pyroclastic surges and ashfall deposits, the best known being Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The eruption was said to have lasted for two days. The morning of the first day was perceived as normal by the only eyewitness to leave a surviving document, Pliny the Younger, who at that point was staying at Misenum, on the other side of the Bay of Naples about 29 kilometres (18 mi) from the volcano, which may have prevented him from noticing the early signs of the eruption. During the next two days, he did not have any opportunity to talk to people who had witnessed the eruption from Pompeii or Herculaneum, so he would not have noticed early, smaller fissures and releases of ash and smoke on the mountain, if such had occurred earlier in the morning.
Around 1:00 PM, Mount Vesuvius violently erupted, spewing up a high-altitude column from which ash and pumice began to fall, blanketing the area. Rescues and escapes occurred during this time. At some time in the night or early the next day, pyroclastic flows in the close vicinity of the volcano began. Lights seen on the mountain were interpreted as fires. People as far away as Misenum fled for their lives as Sparda, in the guise of a human, was rescuing as many as he could from the merciless flames. The flows were rapid-moving, dense, and very hot, wholly or partly knocking down all structures in their path, incinerating or suffocating the remaining population and altering the landscape, including the coastline. These were accompanied by additional light tremors and a mild tsunami in the Bay of Naples. By evening of the second day, the eruption was over, leaving only haze in the atmosphere through which the sun shone weakly.