When the Nephilim Wandered the Earth

 

Brian Godawa is an author of biblical fantasy. The bible has plenty of material for a good yarn. There are mystical creatures, wise men , wizards, warriors and kings. Mind you he does take some creative license when writing his fiction but it is still based on research. His problem is that religious church goes take the bible without research and deeper knowledge. Others do not know anything and do or do not go to church. In the book he puts down all his research and findings.

When he writes his works not only does he consult the bible and other religious text but he also consult Ancient Near Eastern Mythology and puts the stories in a proper context. The thrust of his book is based on “The Book of Enoch” where in Azazel descend to earth after a rebellion against god. Him and 200 other angels fall to earth and live there. While there they fall in love with human women and from their union comes a race of giants. These Giants could be anywhere from 8 feet tall to 20 feet tall. They are violent and aggressive. The Sumerian mythos have a similar story. The Annunaki or Mesopotamian gods come to earth and create humans, after a bit the Gods fall in love with these women and create me of might, or mighty warriors.
These giants were considered an abomination. In the Bible we have the flood come down and it’s main reason was to clean up the polluted blood. It killed most of humanity and most of the giants but as we know that not all of them died. Some of them continued to live in Canaan. Remember the biblical frazes that describe the canaanites as giants and the Israelite were small like grasshopper compared to them. Yet there were the Anakim in Canaan and the might dead or Rephaim. The Anakim sounds a lot like Annunaki. The Rephaim were both sprits and giants who are both dead and still lving. They are giants. Joshua and other biblical greats were given the job of destroying them.
All over the world there are flood myths. The sumerians had gods who did the flood because the people were complaining to loud. So Enlil wanted to wipe them out but Enki intervened and had Ziasudra’s life saved. The enmity of different brother plays out In other near eastern mythos. There is Seth and Osiris, Cain and Abel and Enlil and Enki. In the near eastern mythologies there is always a hero who fights a great dragon to prevail over chaos. In bible it is Leviathan. In Canaanite mythos it is Yam the sea god. In Mesopotamian mythos it is Tiamat who is slain by Marduk.
Many parallels between the different mythos in fact it could be said that the bible got it’s inspiration from many of the earlier mythologies. Should prove an interesting read.