Migdal Bavel

**Migdal Bavel** (ミグダル・バヴェル, *Migudaru Baveru*?) was an ancient organization founded in prehistoric times by the forces of Heaven. It made its only appearance in the movie *Gamera vs. the Goddamn Samurai*.

## Location

The headquarters of the Migdal Bavel was somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (present-day Iraq). During the Great Ancient War and the subsequent Great Cataclysm, the land broke off from the surface as a floating island a few thousand meters above sea level. In the span of time between the construction of the Tower of Babel and the present day, the location of the island relocated again to a spot high above Earth's orbit.

## History

The Midgal Bavel were under the same goals as their patron deity, El, the God of the Bible, to protect the Earth from any evil and catastrophe. The evils were categorized by them as "**Hundred Evils**" (百邪, *Hyakuja*?) which included the Space Kaiju, Underworld demons and possibly others.

Six-thousand years ago, the Dark Lord Aldrych took over the Egyptian kingdom and waged war against the ancient world, which resulted in its near-destruction and devastation of much of Migdal Bavel. Shortly before the Cataclysm, the land encompassing Migdal Bavel's areas of influence broke off from the surface and became a large floating island in the sky. In the aftermath, the humans who were in the floating island worked to rebuild the Earth and even dedicated to build the massively-tall Tower of Babel as the temple for God and gateway between Earth and Heaven and a colossal machine that would be called Alphadios and be served as a vessel to rejuvenate El. However, their arrogance, greed and pride of the organization activated a fail-safe energy surge from the then-unfinished Alphadios, which scrambled their brains and speak in new languages that made them unable to understand with each other. As a result, all the humans left Migdal Bavel and were exiled from the island, and the construction of the Tower was never finished. The island ascended higher towards a point high above Earth's orbit and became hidden from all sight for thousands of years. The completion of Alphadios though would continue slowly for thousands of years. Unfortunately, the Migdal Bavel's noble intentions would be slowly corrupted when Rashavim Tophet Lucifer, the son of Lucifer and Lilith infiltrated the organization through his agents, the Four Perils, and took it over in the shadows.

In late 2023, the Babel War waged between the Migdal Bavel and the forces of the Earth, Underworld and Heaven alike and the organization had the girl Magdalena Florentina merge her spirit with the true Holy Grail, the tomb of her ancestor Mary Magdalene. This caused the completed Alphadios to finally activate and awaken El within the Artificial God. The Justice Alliance and the armies of Heaven and the Underworld Commonwealth fought Alphadios, the Three Disaster Beasts and the Migdal Bavel to prevent to His objective to seal off Heaven and the planet away from the Underworld, all other worlds and the rest of universe as a means to prevent a world-destroying conflict such as the Ancient War from happening. After Alphadios was thwarted, Rashavim, who has been manipulating all the events up until that point, revealed his hand and had Alphadios, combined with the energies from the Seven Churches of Asia, break the seals on the Apocalyptic Beast Talathaishta and unleash it on the world. After Talathaishta was sealed once again, with almost all of its members either dead or defected, Migdal Bavel ceased to exist.

## Tower of Babel

The **Tower of Babel** (バベルの塔, *Baberu no tō*?) is the temple of the organization. It was built some time after the Great Cataclysm by the remnants of ancient humanity.

## Hierarchy

The founder and patron god of the organization is El who wanted to build His presence on Earth through a great temple of followers. His protectors and guardians of the Migdal Bavel are the **Three Disaster Beasts** (三災獣, *Sansaijū*?), three chaos-monsters created by Him.

* **Behemodoth** (ビヒモドス, *Bihimodosu*?)
* **Desirathan** (ディザイアタン, *Dizaiatan*?)
* **Dest-Ziz** (デスト・ジーズ, *Desuto-Jīzu*?)

Alongside the Three Disaster Beasts are the **Three Heavenly Patrons** (三天神, *Santenjin*?) who are also created and tasked by El to safeguard the civilizations of the planet.

* **Daybreaker** (デイブレイカー, *Deibureikā*?)
* **Noontide** (ヌーンタイド, *Nūntaido*?)
* **Sun-Down** (サン・ダウン, *San-Daun*?)

Within the ranks of the Migdal Bavel, the **Four Spirit Emperors** (四霊皇帝, *Shirei Kōtei*?) are four extremely powerful kaiju that are under the command of the Disaster Beasts.

* **Ouryuutei** (應龍帝?)
* **Kirin'ou** (麒麟皇?)
* **Reikitei** (靈龜帝?)
* **Hououou** (鳳凰皇?)

Likewise, the Heavenly Patrons act as superiors over the **Four Gods**, (四神, *Shijin*?) assigned the task to protect mankind from various threats. They were all destroyed in Ancient War and would be reincarnated in the present day in the forms of four new kaiju called the **Elemental Lords** (魔装輝神, *Masō Kishin*?).

* **Genbu-Kokki-no-Kami** (玄武黑龜神?) – Reincarnated as Gamera, the kaiju form of Ichirou Tachibana.
* **Suzaku-Kouchou-no-Kami** (朱雀紅鳥神?) – Reincarnated as Hououga, the kaiju form of Lily Ramses Futaba.
* **Byakko-no-Kami** (白虎神?) – Reincarnated as Taigaia, the kaiju form of Kousuke Sawaki.
* **Seiryuu-no-Kami** (靑龍神?) – Arguably the strongest of the Four Gods, reincarnated as Tatsura, the kaiju form of Tatsurou Akiyama.

When the Four Gods were killed, their evil counterparts from the Underworld, the **Four Perils** (四凶, *Shikyō*?) replaced them and allowed the forces of Hell to infiltrate Migdal Bavel and influence it negatively from within, which would corrupt and shape the organization's ambitions for millennia to come.

* **Taotiewang** (饕餮王タオティエワン, *Taotiewan*?)
* **Qiongqiwang** (窮奇王チオンチワン, *Chionchiwan*?)
* **Taowuwang** (橈机王タオウワン, *Taouwan*?)
* **Hundunwang** (渾沌王フンドゥンワン, *Fundunwang*?)

Lower on the ranks were the **Four Sins** (四罪, *Shizai*?) who were all apparently killed in the Ancient War. They were mentioned though never actually made an appearance.

* **Kon-Ou** (鯀王?)
* **Kyuukou-Ou** (共工王?)
* **Kantou-Ou** (驩兜王?)
* **Sanbyou-Ou** (三苗王?)

## Trivia

* The name of Migdal Bavel is the Hebrew name for the Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Migdal Bavel).
* Figures within the Migdal Bavel, with the exception of the Three Disaster Beasts and Heavenly Patrons, are based on various Chinese astrological, mythological and folklore deities and figures.
	+ Ouryuutei – Based on Yinglong.
	+ Kirin'ou – Based on the Qilin/Kirin.
	+ Reikitei – Based on the Reiki, which is a tortoise.
	+ Hououou – Based on the Fenghuang.
	+ Genbu-Kurogame-no-Kami – Based on the Black Tortoise.
	+ Suzaku-Kouchou-no-Kami – Based on the Vermillion Bird.
	+ Byakko-no-Kami – Based on the White Tiger.
	+ Seiryuu-no-Kami – Based on the Azure Dragon.
	+ The Four Perils are based on mythological figures of the same name, antagonistic counterparts of the Chinese Four Symbols.
	+ Kon-Ou – Based on Gun, the father of Yu the Great, who failed to stop the Great Flood.
	+ Kyuukou-Ou – Based on Gong Gong, who is (depending on the story) a monster who controls floods, or a human who supposedly caused the Great Flood to undermine Emperor Yao's rule.
	+ Kantou-Ou – Based on Huan Dou, a corrupt minister who supposedly conspired with Gong Gong to cause the Great Flood.
	+ Sanbyou-Ou – Based on either a deity of the ancient Miao people, or represents the peoples themselves.