Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter VII — The Giants and the Corruption of Earth
The Watchers' offspring devour the children of men
The Watchers' wives bear giants three thousand ells tall who consume the produce of men, then turn against men and devour them; earth is filled with bloodshed and lawlessness.
Source context
- Theme
- Descent of the Watchers, union with human women, and the generation of the Nephilim giants
- Soul-faculty
- Sentient Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Greek myth — Titans and the gigantomachyCross-tradition congruence appears in the Greek narrative of divine beings transgressing cosmic boundaries to produce hybrid offspring who destabilize the ordered world, structurally parallel to the Watcher-Nephilim sequence.
- Mesopotamian mythology — Apkallu sagesCross-tradition congruence is present in the Babylonian tradition of antediluvian Apkallu, semi-divine instructors who descended to humanity and whose later, corrupt successors were blamed for introducing forbidden knowledge and disrupting the cosmic order.
- Vedic cosmology — Gandharva-Apsara unionsCross-tradition congruence is found in the Vedic accounts of celestial Gandharvas taking human women, producing offspring that carry a mixed divine-earthly nature with ambiguous consequences for cosmic harmony.
Chapter VII
CHAPTER VII.
1And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. 2. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: 3. Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, 4. the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. 5. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. 6. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
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