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If you have an interest in the more esoteric aspects of Judeo-Christian lore, then you may have some passing familiarity with the Nephilim. But you probably have more questions than answers. Were the Nephilim fallen angels? Were they the children of fallen angels? Were they entirely human? Almost any discussion about the Nephilim is going...

History Who Were the Nephilim? If you have an interest in the more esoteric aspects of Judeo-Christian lore, then you may have some passing familiarity with the Nephilim. But you probably have more questions than answers. Were the Nephilim fallen angels? Were they the children of fallen angels? Were they entirely human? Almost any discussion about the Nephilim is going to be rife with controversy and confusion—and for good reason. Nobody knows who the Nephilim really were. How can we break down a complicated topic? Well, let’s start by looking at references to Nephilim in the Bible and the Book of Enoch. Then we can explore some of the different theories that scholars, philologists, and theologians have proposed. Among those hypotheses is one which should particularly intrigue you: It is possible that the Nephilim were none other than the Annunaki. What Does the Word “Nephilim” Mean? Unfortunately the etymology of the word is complicated and quite nebulous. Nobody is totally sure of the root of the word, but it may be derived from the Hebrew verbal root n-ph-l, for “fall.” What does that indicate about the Nephilim? No one is sure. Anglican cleric Robert Baker Girdlestone asserted it should be interpreted as “those that cause others to fall down” (this could be a literal giant reference or a figurative demonic reference). Professor Ronald Hendel thinks it means “ones who have fallen.” Nephilim in the Bible Let’s go over the actual scriptural references to Nephilim. In the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 6:1-4 (just before the Flood story): <img decoding="async" width="313" height="400" src="https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sons-of-god-with-daughters-of-men.jpg" alt="Sons Of God With The Daughters Of Men" class="wp-image-467" srcset="https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sons-of-god-with-daughters-of-men.jpg 313w, https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sons-of-god-with-daughters-of-men-235x300.jpg 235w" sizes="(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px" /> “4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.” Numbers 13:32–33 (The Twelve Spies report seeing giants in Canaan): “33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” In the Book of Enoch The following passage describes the Nephilim as descendents of the Watchers (fallen angels): “And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: ‘I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it…” <img decoding="async" width="600" height="800" src="https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/the-book-of-enoch.jpg" alt="the Book of Enoch" class="wp-image-457" srcset="https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/the-book-of-enoch.jpg 600w, https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/the-book-of-enoch-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> This passage continues with the names of the participants, and then continues: “Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees. “And the women conceiving brought forth giants, “Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them; When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them; And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood. Their flesh one after another.” It seems that all those worldly arts of civilization came at quite a steep price. The essential implication is that the fallen angels enslaved humankind. They bewitched us with wonders and then worked us to death. “Impiety increased; fornication multiplied; and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways. “Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, and dividers of roots: Armers taught the solution of sorcery; Barkayal taught the observers of...