@Trippy_Elixir, as in the Tower of Babel topic, you’re asking the wrong, typical historical-grammatical question. All of the Bible is metaphoric - just look at those synonyms, regardless of what scant, if any, literal, factual, historical, correlated, disinterested, objective parts, reportage. One must start by dumping the intellectually useless historical-grammatical method and love God with our WHOLE mind. As He commands.