After any catastrophe, humanity is intent on re-establishing the pre-apocalypse civilization, which takes on legendary perfection and loses its dark shadows in the mists of time. Our own Western culture prides itself on the Renaissance, i.e. the Rebirth, of ancient culture, including the gods and demigods, after centuries of Dark Ages.
The same was true in the centuries following the diluvian apocalypse survived by only eight humans. In the dark days – literally as we now know, from scientific analyses by Carl Sagan and others.
This renaissance even brought back the super-human giants.
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” (Genesis 6:4)
After the original reference in Genesis 6, the same word nephilim is used to refer to giants encountered by the Israelites scoping out the land of Canaan, where “great stature” is the indeed the key identifying feature.
“And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw they giants/nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants/nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” (Nu 13:32-33)
Histories, legends, mythologies, and religions throughout the world validate the biblical account that evil spirits continued to infect humanity’s ways – intents of the heart and genome – after the Flood of Noah wiped out the hybrid offspring of the fallen angels. Mesoamerican legends are just one example of the world-wide phenomenon.
Quetzalcoatl (pronounced Ket-zal-ko’-wat) was the Aztec version of the Feathered Serpent god that permeated Mesoamerican mythologies…Quetzalcoatl was regarded as the god of wind / spirit, patron of priests, and inventor of calendars and books. He was also occasionally used as a symbol of death and resurrection…
Quetzalcoatl shared his namesake with the feathered serpent deities of the K’iche’ Maya and the Yucatec Maya. The name of the K’iche’ Maya deity Q’uq’umatz meant “Quetzal Serpent” while the Yucatec Maya god Kukulkan translated to the less specific “Feathered Serpent.”…
We get that. Lucifer, right?
Quetzalcoatl was the third son of the dual creator god Ometeotl.
This makes him equivalent to Apollo, the third generation from Lucifer. Granted there is no exact word-for-word match between mythologies, we have to take what we can get from general concepts.
Quetzalcoatl / Seed of the Serpent Apollo worked in opposition to his brother Tezcatlipoca / Human Son of God Seed of the Woman. This rivalry was a recurring theme in Aztec mythology…
Each bout of fighting brought one of the four epochs of Aztec history to an end [equivalent to the days of creation], ultimately ending with Tezcatlipoca in control of the fifth (and current) age. During this time, it was conceivable that Quetzalcoatl could defeat his brother once more and regain power…
According to legend, the Aztec people initially only had access to roots and wild game.
This is consistent with the immediate post-Flood ice age.
The fact of giants in early historic times is not in question.
“And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span [9.5 ft]…armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass…and the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron… ” (I Samuel 17:4-7)
The only question debated is how giants were produced after the flood.
The first interpretation is to take “when the sons of the God came in unto the daughters of men” as an explanation of how there were giants. This would lead to the understanding that in both eras – “in those days; and also after that” – giants were produced by direct sexual congress with angels.
However, we are told that the angels who engaged in forbidden sexual activities were imprisoned, serving as an example, obviously to other angels and any potential human collaborators, of the terrible judgment befalling those who engage in such activities.
“the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 6-7)
“God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;” (II Peter 2:4-6)
Sodom and Gomorrah are stated to be the examples, and unlike the imprisoned angels in hell, these sites are available for an object lesson. Their example of swift judgment can be understood as indicating that God did not suffer angel-human hybridization to resume after his catastrophic world-wide flood judgment.
So another grammatically legitimate way to understand the phrase “when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men” at face value, an explanation of when there were giants – “in those days.” In that case, “and also after that” is a parenthetical indication of another era when giants were produced in other ways.
“There were giants in the earth in those days; (and also after that,) when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
or you could phrase it
“There were giants in the earth in those days, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and also after that,
Why make this phrasing so open to multiple interpretations? God deliberately speaks mysteriously, you know. There is a power struggle between good and evil.
I take the second interpretation on the biblical evidence quoted above and confirmed by all the non-canonical writings.
In addition, the reports by ancient mythologies / histories of the demigods produced by sexual intercourse between the gods and humans place these circumstances and creatures in the remote past, in the world prior to the flood. We have not seen the fantastic superhuman offspring, like satyrs, of god-human unions since the flood destroyed these creatures.
But the top reason is the direct statement in the biblical record that after the flood giants were born to other giants, not to angel-human parents.
- “And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass…
- Saph, which was of the sons of the giant…
- brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
These four were born to the giant in Gath.” (II Samuel 21:16-22)
Goliath and his kin were only some of the giants post-flood giants documented in the Bible.
It is also significant that the word “giants” in Numbers is translated from “nephil-im“, linking these post-flood giants with the pre-flood giants.
“There were giants / nephilim in the earth in those days; and also after that…(Genesis 6:4)
“We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we…eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants / nephilim, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants / nephilim: and we were…as grasshoppers.” (Numbers 13:31-33)
These panic-stricken warrior spies were not using hyperbole when they reported that the inhabitants were being eaten up.
During the 10th and 11th centuries, ChacoCanyon, in western New Mexico, was the cultural center of the Anasazi homeland…populated by as many as 30,000 people. The Anasazi built magnificent villages such as ChacoCanyon’s Pueblo Bonito, a tenth-century complex that was as many as five stories tall and contained about 800 rooms. The people laid a 400-mile network of roads, some of them 30 feet wide, across deserts and canyons. And into their architecture they built sophisticated astronomical observatories.
But about 1250, many of the people began constructing settlements high in the cliffs—settlements that offered defense and protection…Anglo explorers who found them in the 1880s…name the absent builders the Cliff Dwellers.
Toward the end of the 13th century, some cataclysmic event forced the Anasazi to flee those cliff houses and their homeland and to move south and east…Today’s Pueblo Indians have oral histories about their peoples’ migration, but the details of these stories remain closely guarded secrets. Within the past decade, however, archaeologists have wrung from the pristine ruins new understandings about why the Anasazi left… “After about A.D. 1200, something very unpleasant happens,” says University of Colorado archaeologist Stephen Lekson.
cliff dwellings were not the Anasazi’s only response to whatever threatened them during the 1200s…Sand Canyon Pueblo in southwest Colorado…50 miles east…comprised 420 rooms, 90 to 100 kivas (underground chambers), 14 towers and several other buildings, all enclosed by a stone wall….created and abandoned in a lifetime, between 1240 and about 1285… “there were 50 to 75 large villages like SandCanyon in the Mesa Verde, Colorado, region—canyon-rim sites enclosing a spring and fortified with high walls. Overall, the best defense plan against enemies was to aggregate in bigger groups. In southern Utah, where the soil was shallow and food hard to come by, the population density was low, so joining a big group wasn’t an option. They built cliff dwellings instead.”
In the 11th and early 12th centuries there is little archaeological evidence of true warfare, Lekson says, but…“There seem to have been goon squads…executed and even cannibalized them...” As late as 1700… attacked the Hopi pueblo of Awatovi, setting fire to the community, killing…and cannibalizing the victims. Vivid and grisly accounts of this massacre were recently gathered from elders…
An even more grisly picture emerges at Castle Rock…37 rooms, 16 kivas and nine towers, a complex that housed perhaps 75 to 150 people…built and occupied from 1256 to 1274—an even shorter period than Sand Canyon Pueblo existed…the site of a major massacre….“the massacre ended the occupation of Castle Rock”…the excavators at Castle Rock recognized that some of the dead had been cannibalized.
Turner’s 1999 book, Man Corn, documents evidence of 76 different cases of prehistoric cannibalism in the Southwest that he uncovered during more than 30 years of research.
Many Native American tribes from the Northeast and Southwest still relate the legends of the red-haired giants and how their ancestors fought terrible, protracted wars against the giants…
Others, like the Aztecs and Mayans recorded their encounters with a race of giants to the north when they ventured out on exploratory expeditions.
Who were these red-haired giants that history books have ignored? Their burial sites and remains have been discovered on almost every continent.
In the United States they have been unearthed in Virginia and New York state, Michigan, Illinois and Tennessee, Arizona and Nevada.
the story of the native Paiute’s wars against the giant red-haired men transformed from a local myth to a scientific reality during 1924 when the Lovelock Caves were excavated…
The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors’ battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants. According to the Paiutes…the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food…all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants…
archaeologists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Paiutes myth was no myth; it was true…thousands of artifacts recovered…two very large skeletons…8.5-feet tall…nearly 10-feet long.
Again, recognizing that the name Anak expresses the notable attributes of the individual to whom it was first designated, we discover that it derives from the root noun “neck” and the root verb “to suck”. We can link this with Enoch’s description of the pre-flood nephilim as biters (Enoch 10:13) to conclude that Anak and his descendants were biting into the jugular veins at the neck to suck out the life-blood.
“Why,” you might ask, “would God allow giant zombies to survive the flood when he had just used the flood to eliminate them?” Well, for starters, the flood was not a judgment against giants. The flood was a judgment against the wickedness and violence of humans. The destruction of the giants was collateral damage, fallout from the wickedness of mankind.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth…And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Genesis 6:5-13)
Obviously “all” flesh means all “types” of flesh, because at least two of every creature, clean and unclean, survived the flood in the ark to repopulate the earth.
Including the hybrid giants who cannibalized pure humans for nutrients not made by their incomplete human genome because that genome proved they were a species of human.
Howbeit, the giants who proceeded from angel fathers killed each other off prior to the flood.
“To Gabriel also the Lord said, Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them forth, and excite them one against another. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs.” (Enoch 10:13)
The phrase “length of days shall not be theirs” explains the purpose for not allowing any giants to survive the flood. The eight persons who survived the flood, along with their first generations of offspring, continued to experience the exceptionally long life-spans genetically preserved by the lessened solar damage of the ecosystem prior to the “windows of heaven” being opened. Any long-lived giant and giant offspring would have wiped out the human race before they got out of the starting gate.
The indisputable biblical answer to the debate about the origin of the post-flood giants is the documentation that were descended from other giants, such as Anak referenced above.
The Hebrew word translated “giant” in the King James refers to a specific family of giants – the Repha-im / Rephas.
In other words, Goliath and his sons were descendants of Rapha.
Who is he?
Kingdom Come 