Angels descended from heaven to
watch over humanity. As they did this, their lust for human women grew and they
bred with them. The result was the Nephilim, who were supposedly giants. Nephilim means “fallen” or “those who were
cast down.” In Genesis 6:4, however, it’s suggested that the Nephilim were
around before the angels descended. It states:
“They were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.”
God grew angry at the corruption that
spread from cohabitation of angels and man. He decided to destroy not only the
humans but all life on earth. He chose Noah and his family alone to survive the
Flood. And it rained for forty days and forty nights.
However, not all the Nephilim
perished. They have been mentioned throughout other books in the bible. In
numbers that are the Anakim, so big that the men are like grasshoppers. Enoch
15:8-9 states that they shall be called evil spirits on earth and they will
dwell both on earth and in the earth, making them demons.
Nephilim play a large part in the
book I’m currently writing (Book 2 of the Van Helsing Organization) but they
are not the giants as mentioned in the bible. Nor are they evil. They can be
the children of angels, but some can also be considered the children of other
pantheons. The Greek heroes would have been Nephilim in my mythology.
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