Rrhain advises me, "Go read Genesis 6:2;" and directs me, "Keep going. Remember, we're talking about Genesis. What other beings are there other than life on earth?"
I read Genesis 6:2. "...The sons of gods (bene ha-elohim') saw the daughters of men that they were fair..." A light bulb goes on! Oh! Those pesky Nephilim again.
These "sons of gods" are the Ugaritic "children of El" or the patheon of sub-dieties found in Phoenician/Canaanite/Ammonite inscriptions. Bene ha Elohim are a common feature in West Semitic religions.
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"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 (Egrhgoroi) 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
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Apparently the Book of Enoch is the first bit of Jewish literature that describes this particular class of angels and calls them Watchers. They are evil and lead the dead to a place of eternal torment.
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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! They are Anubis and Horus the sightless. Others, however, say that they are the Tchatcha, the sovereign princes of Osiris, who bring to nought 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
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Boy, these Nephilim/Anakim dudes got around! Where the heck did they come from in the first place???
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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. [Let's see now, 10 times 1.56' is over 15 feet tall. What a hunk of heaven for the puny little daughters of man! ]
Akakes, the plural of Nanx, was an epithet of the Greek gods in general. Talmudic commentators characteristically make the Anakim three thousand cubits tall. [Holy Cow! That's a hunk-a-hunk of burnin' love!] - Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
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Now where on earth did the genetic building blocks come from to construct sons of gods three thousand cubits tall that could possibly accomplish copulation with the diminutive daughters of man???
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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
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Oh, now I see. Thank you Zecharia Sitchin! Hallelluyah! The Truth Shall Set You Free!
[This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-26-2003]
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