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The
Sumerian Watchers
"...Man and his early civilizations
had a profoundly different mentality from our own, that in fact
men and women were not conscious as are we, were not responsible
for their actions, and therefore cannot be given the credit or
blame for anything that was done over these vast millennia of
time; that instead each person had a part of his nervous system
that was divine, by which he was ordered about like any slave, a
voice or voices which indeed were what we call volition and
empowered what they commanded and were related to the
hallucinated voices of others in a carefully established
hierarchy."
"...The astonishing consistency from Egypt to Peru, from
Ur to
Yucatan, wherever civilizations arose, of death practices and
idolatry, of divine government and hallucinated voices, all are
witness to the idea of a different mentality than our own."
"The Gods were in no sense 'figments of the imagination' of
anyone. They were man's volition. They occupied his nervous
system, probably his right hemisphere, and from stores of
admonitory and receptive experience, transmuted this experience
into articulated speech which then 'told' the man what to do."
"Throughout Mesopotamia, from the earliest times of Sumer and
Akkad, all lands were owned by Gods and men were their slaves.
Of this, the cuneiform texts leave no doubt whatever. Each
city-state had its own principal God, and the king was described
in the very earliest written documents that we have as 'the
tenant farmer of the God'."
- Julian Jaynes,
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of
the Bicameral Mind
"... The Akkadians called their predecessors Shumerians, and
spoke of the Land of Shumer.
"It was, in fact, the biblical Land of Shin'ar. It was the land
whose name - Shumer - literally meant the Land of the Watchers.
It was indeed the Egyptian Ta Neter - Land of the Watchers, the
land from which the Gods had come to Egypt."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
The Stairway to Heaven
"It was from that planet [Nibiru], the Sumerian texts repeatedly
and persistently stated, that
the Anunnaki came to Earth. The
term literally means 'Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came.' They
are spoken of in the Bible as the Anakim, and in Chapter 6 of
Genesis are also call Nefilim, which in Hebrew means the same
thing: Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heavens to Earth."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
Genesis Revisited
"The Anakim may have been Mycenaean Greek colonists, belonging
to the 'Sea Peoples' confederation which caused Egypt such
trouble in the fourteenth century B.C. Greek mythographers told
of a Giant Anax ('king'), son of Heaven and Mother Earth, who
ruled Anactoria (Miletus) in Asia Minor. According to Appollodorus, the disinterred skeleton of Asterius ('starry'),
Anax's successor, measured ten cubits. Akakes, the plural of
Anax, was an epithet of the Greek Gods in general. Talmudic
commentators characteristically make the Anakim three thousand
cubits tall."
- Robert Graves and Raphael Patai,
Hebrew Myths: The Book of
Genesis
The Egyptian
Ntr
There is archaeological evidence of a
strong cultural connection between Sumer and ancient Egypt.
"Ptah and the other Gods were
called, in Egyptian, Ntr - 'Guardian, Watcher'."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
The Wars of Gods and Men
During the fabled "First Time, Zep Tepi, when the Gods ruled in
their country: they said it was a golden age during which the
waters of the abyss receded, the primordial darkness was
banished, and humanity, emerging into the light, was offered the
gifts of civilization. They spoke also of intermediaries between
Gods and men - the Urshu, a category of lesser divinities whose
title meant 'the Watchers'. And they preserved particularly
vivid recollections of the Gods themselves, puissant and
beautiful beings called the Neteru who lived on earth with
humankind and exercised their sovereignty from Heliopolis and
other sanctuaries up and down the Nile.
Some of these Neteru were male and
some female but all possessed a range of supernatural powers
which included the ability to appear, at will, as men or women,
or as animals, birds, reptiles, trees or plants. Paradoxically,
their words and deeds seem to have reflected human passions and
preoccupations. Likewise, although they were portrayed as
stronger and more intelligent than humans, it was believed that
they could grow sick - or even die, or be killed - under certain
circumstance."
- Graham Hancock,
Fingerprints of the Gods
"'Deliver thou the scribe Nebseni, whose word is
truth, from the Watchers, who carry murderous knives, who
possess cruel fingers, and who would slay those who are in the
following of Osiris.'
May these Watchers never gain the mastery over me, and may I
never fall under their knives!'
"Who are these Watchers?
"'They are Anubis and Horus, [the latter being] in the form of
Horus the sightless. Others, however, say that they are the
Tchatcha (sovereign princes of Osiris), who bring to
naught the
operations of their knives; and others say that they are the
chiefs of the Sheniu chamber.
'May their knives never gain the mastery over me. May I never
fall under the knives wherewith they inflict cruel tortures. For
I know their names, and I know the being, Matchet, who is among
them in the House of Osiris. He shooteth forth rays of light
from his eye, being himself invisible, and he goeth round about
heaven robed in the flames which come from his mouth, commanding
Hapi, but remaining invisible himself. May I be strong on earth
before Ra, may I arrive safely in the presence of Osiris. O ye
who preside over your altars, let not your offerings to me be
wanting, for I am one of those who follow after Nebertcher,
according to the writings of Khepera. Let me fly like a hawk,
let me cackle like a goose, let me lay always like the
serpent-Goddess Neheb-ka.'"
-
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
"They had come to Egypt, the Egyptians wrote, from Ta-Ur, the
'Far/Foreign Land,' whose name Ur meant 'oldest' but could have
also been the actual place name - a place will known from
Mesopotamian and biblical records: the ancient city of Ur in
southern Mesopotamia. And the straits of the Red Sea, which
connected Mesopotamia and Egypt, were called Ta-Neter, the
'Place of the Gods,' the passage by which they had come to
Egypt. That the earliest Gods did come from the biblical
lands
of Shem is additionally borne out by the puzzling fact that the
names of these olden Gods were of 'Semitic' (Akkadian)
derivation. Thus Ptah, which had no meaning in Egyptian, meant
'he who fashioned things by carving and opening up' in the
Semitic tongues."
-
Zecharia Sitchin, The Wars of Gods and Men
"The Legend of Votan, who had built the first city that was the
cradle of Mesoamerican civilization, was written down by Spanish
chroniclers from oral Mayan traditions. The emblem of Votan,
they recorded, was the serpent; 'he was a descendant of the
Guardians, of the race of Can'. 'Guardians' was the meaning
of the Egyptian term Neteru (i.e., 'Gods'). Can, studies such as
that by Zelia Nuttal (Papers of the Peabody Museum) have
suggested was a variant of Canaan who was (according to the
Bible) a member of the Hamitic peoples of Africa and a
brother-nation of the Egyptians."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
When Time Began
Bene Elohim
Note that plural Gods elohim' appears in the earliest Hebrew texts,
even though it is translated as God (El) in modern texts.
"...The sons of Gods (bene ha-elohim')
saw the daughters of men that they were fair..."
- Genesis 6:2a
"The sons of God (or children of God; 'bene elohim' and
variants) are divine members of God's heavenly host...The title
'sons/children of God' is familiar from Ugaritic mythology, in
which the Gods collectively are the 'children of El'...The
sons/children of God are also found in Phoenician and Ammonite
inscriptions, referring to the pantheon of sub-ordinate deities,
indicating that the term was widespread in the West Semitic
religions."
- Oxford Companion to the Bible
"The Watchers were "a specific race of divine beings known in
Hebrew as nun resh 'ayin, 'irin' (resh 'ayin, 'ir' in singular),
meaning 'those who watch' or 'those who are awake', which is
translated into Greek as Egregoroi egregoris or grigori, meaning
'watchers'. These Watchers feature in the main within the pages
of pseudepigraphal and apocryphal works of Jewish origin, such
as the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. Their progeny,
according to Hebrew tradition, are named as nephilim, a Hebrew
word meaning 'those who have fallen' or 'the fallen ones',
translated into Greek as gigantez, gigantes, or 'giants' - a
monstrous race featured in the Theogony of the hellenic writer Hesiod (c. 907 BC)."
- Andrew Collins,
From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden
Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 3
"The statement (Gen. 6:1) that the 'sons of God' married the
daughters of men is explained of the fall of the angels, in
Enoch, vi-xi, and codices, D, E F, and A of the Septuagint read
frequently, for 'sons of God', oi aggeloi tou qeou ['angels of
God']. Unfortunately, codices B and C are defective in Ge., vi,
but it is probably that they, too, read oi aggeloi in this
passage, for they constantly so render the expression 'sons of
God'; cf. Job i, 6; ii, 1; xxxviii, 7; but on the other hand,
see Ps. ii, 1; lxxxviii, & (Septuagint). Philo, in commenting on
the passage in his treatise 'Quod Deus sit immutabilis', i,
follows the Septuagint."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"Angels came late into Jewish theology, generally from the
non-Jewish myths of the East. The early books of the Bible speak
of some vague heavenly beings called malochim (singular, malach).
Although malach is usually translated angel, its literal meaning
is messenger."
- Harry Gersh,
The Sacred Books of the Jews
"The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert;
it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur."
- Genesis 16:7
"At first the angels are regarded in quite an impersonal way
(Gen. xvi, 7).They are God's vice-regents and are often
identified with the Author of their message (Gen. xlviii,
15-16). But while we read of 'the Angels of God' meeting Jacob
(Gen. xxxii, 1) we at other times read of one who is termed 'the
Angel of God' par excellence, e.g. Gen., xxxi, 11."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven,
'Abraham! Abraham!'"
- Genesis 22:11
"It is true that, owing to the Hebrew idiom, this may mean no
more than 'an angel of God', and the Septuagint renders it with
or without the article at will; yet the three visitors at Mambre
seem to have been of different ranks, though St. Paul (Heb.
xiii, 2) regarded them all as equally angels; as the story in Ge.
xiii, develops, the speaker is always 'the Lord'. Thus in the
account of the Angel of the Lord who visited Gideon (Judges vi),
the visitor is alternately spoken of as 'the Angel of the Lord'
and as 'the Lord'. Similarly, in Judges xiii, the Angel of the
Lord appears...."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain
offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the LORD. And the LORD
did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: As the
flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the
LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife
fell with their faces to the ground. When the angel of the LORD
did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah
realized that it was the angel of the LORD.
'We are doomed to die!' he said to his wife. 'We have seen
God!'"
- Judges 13:19-22
"This want of clearness is particularly apparent in the various
accounts of the Angel of Exodus. In Judges vi, just now referred
to, the Septuagint is very careful to render the Hebrew 'Lord'
by 'the Angel of the Lord'; but in the story of the Exodus it is
the Lord who goes before them in the pillar of a cloud (Exod.
xiii 21), and the Septuagint makes no change (cf. also Num. xiv,
14, and Neh. ix, 7-20."
- Hugh Pope, The
Catholic Encyclopedia
"By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to
guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give
them light, so that they could travel by day or night."
- Exodus 13:21
"Yet in Exod. xiv, 19, their guide is termed 'the Angel of God.
When we turn to Exod., xxxiii, where God is angry with His
people for worshipping the golden calf, it is hard not to feel
that it is God Himself who has hitherto been their guide, but
who now refuses to accompany them any longer. God offers an
angel instead, but at Moses's petition He says (14) 'My face
shall go before thee', which the Septuagint reads by autoV
though the following verse shows that this rendering is clearly
impossible, for Moses objects: 'If Thou Thyself dost not go
before us, bring us not out of this place.' But what does God
mean by 'my face'? Is it possible that some angel of specially
high rank is intended, as in Is. lxiii, 9 (cf. Tobias xii, 15)?
May not this be what is meant by 'the Angel of God' (cf. Num.
xx, 16)?"
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"He [the Lord] said, 'Surely they are my people, sons who will
not be false to me'; and so he became their Savior. In all their
distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence
saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted
them up and carried them all the days of old. Yet they rebelled
and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy
and he himself fought against them."
- Isaiah 63:9-10
"The Massoretic text as well as the Vulgate of Exod. iii and
xix-xx clearly represent the Supreme Being as appearing to Moses
in the bush and on Mount Sinai; but the Septuagint version,
while agreeing that it was God Himself who gave the Law, yet
makes it 'the angel of the Lord' who appeared in the bush."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire
from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire
it did not burn up. Moses thought, 'I will go over and see this
strange sight--why the bush does not burn up.'
When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to
him from within the bush, 'Moses! Moses!'"
- Exodus 3:2-4a
"By New Testament times the Septuagint view has prevailed, and
it is now not merely in the bush that the angel of the Lord, and
not God Himself appears, but the angel is also the Giver of the
Law (cf. Gal. iii, 19; Heb. ii, 2; Acts vii, 30)."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator"
- Galatians 3:19c
"The person of 'the angel of the Lord' finds a counterpart in
the personification of Wisdom in the Sapiential books and in at
least one passage (Zach. iii, 1) it seems to stand for that 'Son
of Man' whom Daniel (vii, 13) saw brought before 'the Ancient of
Days'. Zacharias says: 'And the Lord showed me Jesus the high
priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood on
His right hand to be His adversary'."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
Unlike the "messengers" who could be
mistaken for humans in the Book of Genesis, Daniel's angel was
resplendent in its divinity.
"I looked up and there before me was
a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold around
his waist. His body was like chrysolite, his face like
lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like
the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a
multitude. I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; the
men with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them
that they fled and hid themselves."
-
Daniel 10:5-7
"Later Biblical books developed the idea of malochim
[messengers], but it wasn't until the
Book of Daniel, written in
the second century BC, that some of these heavenly creatures
were given names. Daniel mentions Gabriel (geber is man, El is
God) and Michael. The later non-canonical books built a whole
hierarchy of angels, headed by Metatron, prince of the heavenly
hosts."
- Harry Gersh,
The Sacred Books of the Jews
"In the Hebrew writings, the term 'Heavenly Hosts' includes not
only the counselors and emissaries of Jehovah, but also the
celestial luminaries; and the stars, imagined in the East to be
animated intelligences, presiding over human weal and woe, are
identified with the more distinctly impersonated messengers or
angels, who execute the Divine decrees, and whose predominance
in heaven is in mysterious correspondence and relation with the
powers and dominions of the earth. In Job, the Morning Stars and
the Sons of God are identified; they join in the same chorus of
praise to the Almighty; they are both susceptible of joy; they
walk in brightness, and are liable to impurity and imperfection
in the sight of God."
- General Albert Pike,
Morals and Dogma
"He [king Josiah] did away with the pagan priests appointed by
the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the
towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--those who burned
incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations [Mazzaloth]
and to all the starry hosts."
- 2 Kings 23:5
"Can you bring forth the constellations [Mazzaloth] in their
seasons [a reference to the twelve signs of the Zodiac] or lead
out the Bear [Arcturus] with its cubs?"
- Job 38:32
Arcturus is Ursa Major and the three
stars in its tail are the cubs.
The Apocryphal
Tradition
Ca. 150 B.C.E., the author of 1 Enoch wrote of his spell-binding
journey to heaven where he saw angels and their glory.
"And these are the names of the holy
angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the
world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is
over the spirits of men. Raguel, one of the holy angels who
takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of
the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of
mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is
set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the
holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the
Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over
those who rise."
- 1 Enoch 20:1-8
Essene proselytes swore to "preserve the
books belonging to their sect, and the names of the angels."
(Flavius Josephus, Wars of the Jews, Bk 2, Ch 8, Sn 7).
The
First
Book of Enoch was the first piece of Jewish literature to describe a
class of angels, the Watchers, who are positively evil and who lead
the dead to a place of eternal torment.
"And all the angels shall execute
their commandst
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great
Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace."
- 1 Enoch 102:3
The Book of Jubilees "was also known in early times as the
Apocalypse of Moses, for it allegedly was written down by Moses
at Mount Sinai as an angel dictated to him the histories of days
past. (Scholars, though, believe that the work was composed in
the second century BC)."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
The Stairway to Heaven
"For in his days the angels of the Lord descended upon earth -
those who are named The Watchers - that they should instruct the
children of men, that they should do judgment and uprightness
upon earth."
- The Book of Jubilees
"According to the Book of Jubilees, the Watchers
are the sons of
God (Genesis 6) sent from heaven to instruct the children of
men; they fell after they descended to earth and cohabited with
the daughters of men - for which act they were condemned (so
legend reports) and became fallen angels. But not all Watchers
descended: those that remained are the holy Watchers, and they
reside in the 5th Heaven. The evil Watchers dwell either in the
3rd Heaven or in Hell."
-
A Dictionary of Angels
"Several fragments with a clear Qumranic cast (4Q286-287,
4Q385-389, 4Q390...) parallel Belial with the angels of MA&+EMOWT
('enmity'), while Jubilees introduces Mastema/Satan into its
story of the spirits of the giants, the offspring of the fallen
Watchers (Jubilees 10:8,11; see also 11:5,11; 17:16; 18:9,12;
19:28; 48:2,9,12,15). Note that according to Jubilees, the
angels of MA&+EMOWT would be the spirits of the giants, the
offspring of the angel marriages, one tenth of whom become the
servants of Mastema in leading astray and punishing humanity,
while 4Q390 makes them the ones responsible for inspiring the
sons of Aaron to pollute the Temple through illegitimate
marriages and violence."
- David W. Suter, Ioudaios Review, Vol. 3.019, July 1993
"According to the Book of Jubilees, Enoch...testified about
the
Watchers who had sinned with the daughters of men; he testified
against them all." And it was to protect him from the revenge of
the sinning angels of the Lord, that 'he was taken from amongst
the children of men, and was conducted into the Garden of Eden."
- Zecharia Sitchin,
The Stairway to Heaven
"And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of
the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me -Enoch the scribe- and
said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to
the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the
holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and
have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto
themselves wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the
earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and
inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The
murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the
destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make
supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not
attain".'"
- 1 Enoch 10:3-8
As recounted in the
Dead Sea Scrolls:
"...'In the days of Jared', two
hundred Watchers 'descended' on 'Ardis', the summit of Mount Hermon - a mythical location equated with the triple peak of
Jebel esh Sheikh (9,200 feet), placed in the most northerly
region of ancient Palestine. In Old Testament times its snowy
heights had been revered as sacred by various peoples who
inhabited the Holy Land; it was also the probable site of the
Transfiguration of Christ when the disciples witnessed their
Lord 'transfigured before them'.
"On this mountain the Watchers swear an oath and bind themselves
by 'mutual imprecations', apparently knowing full well the
consequences their actions will have both for themselves and for
humanity as a whole. It is a pact commemorated in the name given
to the place of their 'fall', for in Hebrew the word Hermon, or
harem, translates as 'curse'. "
- Andrew Collins,
From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden
Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) pp. 23-24
"In time, each of the 200 took an earthly spouse. These unions
produced children of extraordinary size, who quickly devoured
the world's food. To satisfy their enormous appetites, the
angel-children roamed the earth, slaughtering every species of
bird, beast, reptile and fish. Finally, the ravenous creatures
turned on one another, stripping flesh from the bones of their
fellows and slaking their thirst in rivers of blood. As this
wave of destruction washed over the earth, the anguished cries
of humankind reached four powerful archangels - Uriel, Raphael,
Gabriel, and Michael - who upon orders from God enacted a swift
retribution.
First Uriel descended to earth to
warn Noah of a coming deluge, advising him to prepare an ark to
carry his family and a menagerie of creatures to safety.
Raphael
then fell upon the leader of the Watchers, bound him hand and
foot, and thrust him into eternal darkness.
Next, Gabriel
charged with slaying the dissenters' offspring, encouraged the
monstrous angel-children to fight one another.
Finally, Michael
trussed up the remaining Watchers, forced them to witness the
deaths of their progeny, and condemned them to eternal torment.
Only then did the heavens open up and wash away the last traces
of the destruction that the fallen angels had wrought."
- Cosmic Duality
"Other Watchers stand accused of revealing to mortal kind the
knowledge of more scientific arts, such as the knowledge of the
clouds, or meteorology; the 'signs of the earth', presumably
geodesy and geography; as well as astronomy and the 'signs', or
passage, of the celestial bodies, such as the sun and moon.
Shemyaza [the leader of the Watchers] is accredited with having
taught men 'enchantments, and root-cuttings', a reference to the
magical arts...One of their number, Penemue, taught 'the bitter
and the sweet', surely a reference to the use of herbs and
spices in foods, while instructing men on the use of 'ink and
paper', implying that the Watchers introduced the earliest forms
of writing. Far more disturbing is Kisdeja, who is said to have
shown 'the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits
and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it
may pass away'. In other words, he taught women how to abort
their babies."
- Andrew Collins,
From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden
Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 26
"I saw Watchers in my vision, the dream-vision. Two (men) were
fighting over me, saying...and holding a great contest over me.
I asked them, 'Who are you, that you are thus empo[wered over
me?' They answered me, 'We] [have been em]powered and rule over
all mankind'. They said to me, 'Which of us do yo[u choose to
rule (you)?' I raised my eyes and looked.] [One] of them was terri]fying in his appearance, [like a s]erpent, [his] cl[oa]k
many-colored yet very dark...[And I looked again], and...in his
appearance, his visage like a viper, and [wearing...]
[exceedingly, and all his eyes...]"
"[I replied to him,] 'This [Watcher,] so is he?' He answered me,
'This Wa[tcher...] [and his three names are Belial and Prince of
Darkness] and King of Evil.'"
- "Testament of Amram" (4Q535, Manuscript B)
One by one the angels of heaven are appointed by God to proceed
against the Watchers and their offspring the Nephilim, described
as 'the bastards and the reprobates, and the children of
fornication'. Azazel is bound hand and foot, and cast for
eternity into the darkness of a desert referred to as Dudael.
Upon him are placed 'rough and jagged rocks' and here he shall
forever remain until the Day of judgment, when he will be 'cast
into the fire' for his sins. For their part in the corruption of
mankind, the Watchers are forced to witness the slaughter of
their own children before being cast into some kind of heavenly
prison, an 'abyss of fire'.
Although the Watchers' leader, Shemyaza, is cast into this abyss alongside his brothers, in
other versions of the story he undergoes a more dramatic
punishment. Since he was tempted by a beautiful mortal maiden
named Ishtahar to reveal the Explicit Name of God in exchange
for the offer of carnal pleasure, he is to be tied and bound
before being made to hang for all eternity between heaven and
earth, head down, in the constellation of Orion."
- Andrew Collins,
From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden
Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 26
"These spirits were locked away in the earth, but Mastema
persuaded God to keep out one in ten to tempt humanity until the
judgment and to commit all forms of transgression.
"In the Day of Judgment all such spirits will be consigned to
eternal torment and humanity renewed in spirit back to the
generations of Adam:
'And the days will begin to grow many and increase amongst the
children of men till their days draw night to a thousand years
...
And there will be no old man ...For all will be as children and
youths.'
"The Tree of Life, fragrant and wonderful to behold will be
returned to the centre ground, and the New Jerusalem will be
built by God - just as later described in Revelation."
- Chris King, "The Apocalyptic Tradition"
"The corruption still left in the world after the imprisonment
of the Watchers, and the death of their Nephilim offspring, is
to be swept away by a series of global catastrophes, ending in
the Great Flood so familiar within biblical traditions. In a
separate account of the plight of the Nephilim, this
mass-destruction is seen in terms of an all-encompassing
conflagration sent by the angels of heaven in the form of 'fire,
naphtha and brimstone'. No one will survive these cataclysms of
fire and water save for the 'seed' of Noah, from whose line will
come the future human race."
- Andrew Collins,
From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden
Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 28
"And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and
flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the
earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from
their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy
Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be
evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.
[As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their
dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born
upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the
spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do
battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble:
they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause
offenses. And these spirits shall rise up against the children
of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from
them."
- 1 Enoch 8-12
"The explanation of this myth, which has been a stumbling block
to theologians, may be the arrival in Palestine of tall,
barbarous Hebrew herdsmen early in the second millennium B.C.,
and their exposure, by marriage, to Asianic civilization. 'Sons
of El' in this sense would mean the 'cattle-owning worshipper of
the Semite Bull-God El'; 'Daughters of Adam' would mean 'women
of the soil' (adama), namely, the Goddess- worshipping Canaanite
agriculturists, notorious for their orgies and premarital
prostitution. If so, this historical event has been tangled with
the Ugaritic myth how El seduced two mortal women and fathered
divine sons on them, namely Shahar ('Dawn') and Shalem
('Perfect'). Shahar appears as a winged deity in Psalm CXXXIX:9,
and his son, according to Isaiah XIV:12, was the fallen angel
Helel.
Unions between Gods and mortals,
that is to say between kings or queens and commoners, occur
frequently in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern myth. Since later
Judaism rejected all deities but its own transcendental God, and
since He never married or consorted with any female whatsoever,
Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai in Genesis Rabba felt obliged to curse
all who read 'Sons of God' in the Ugartic sense. Clearly,
such an interperetation was still current in the second century
A.D., and lapsed only when Bene Elohim meant 'God' and Judge,' the
theory being that when a duly appointed magistrate tried a case,
the Spirit of El possessed him: 'I have said, ye are Gods.'
(Psalm LXXXII:6)"
- Robert Graves and Raphael Patai,
Hebrew Myths: The Book of
Genesis
Jewish religious authorities, concerned
that the growing worship of angels would be a threat to the belief
in one God, excised works like those of the Books of Enoch and the
Book of Jubilees from canonical literature.
These books are now part
of what is known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
The mysterious "egregors" of later magical tradition are
linguistically derived from the Watchers and indicate the
continuation of an underground stream of knowledge.
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