WERE THERE RACES OF GIANTS PRE-EXISTING MODERN MAN?
THE PREHISTORIC RACES
RACE OF GIANTS WHO WERE 'IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS' OF OLD
Millions of years ago, before what we call 'modern' man an ancient race with high intelligence, advanced technology and aerospace capabilities lived on earth. Great earth
catastrophies wiped out much of this race , mutated some and drove many more underground. While waiting out the effects of what an ancient nucleur war created on the
surface, man went back to a more natural or should I say 'simplistic' culture. By the time they once again surfaced to the earth or even came back from distance planets the
Age of Man had changed. Knowledge was lost and the old technology was gone. Man had to start over. ..as they had done in previous Ages.
Today we still remain very ignorant of our past. Until 1847, almost nothing was known about fossil man. Science ignored the study of ancient man. It was only thorugh the
bible and traditions that the western worlds had any reference to these wonderous races. One such race was the race of Giants who were "in the earth in those days" of old.
H.P. Blavataksy, The Secret Doctrine, points out to us references in the Bible and in our tradition about the Rephaim (Giants,(the mighty ones), the spectres (Phantoms), the
Nephilim, or the fallen ones.. they are shown "as if identical, though they are all men, since the Bible calls them the primitive and the mighty ones" -- e.g., Nimrod. These
names, which belong by right only to the four preceding races and the earliest beginning of the Fifth, allude very clearly to the first two Phantom (astral) races; to the fallen one
-- the Third; and to the race of the Atlantean Giants -- the Fourth, after which "men began to decrease in stature."
Although Science has come a long way since 1847, they, for their own reasons, have not shared this information with the world populas. We have been kept in the dark . Not
only kept in the dark, but conditioned and trained through the educational system, media and peers to scoff and shut out alternative ideas about the history of man.
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HOMERS ILLAD TRUE
Again the same similarities in Sumerian and Babylonian Culture
Science is not infallible and many ideas they scoffed at have actually come true. For example , did you ever consider that Homer's Illad is true? Troy was considered a fantasy
and science would not recognize that such a wondrous place such as this could have actually existed. Thanks to the determination in the late 1800's of German-American
archeologist, Professor Heinrich Schliemann , it was alas proved that the accounts of the Trojan War were indeed true. That Agamemnon, after his return from theTrojan War
was slain by his wife Clytemnestra , who in turn was murdered by her children, Orestes and Electra. While excavating in Troy he had found, in the treasure house of Priam, an
exquisitely wrought bronze vase bearing the inscription: From King Chronos of Atlantis. Ten years later, while wandering through the Louvre in Paris, he came across its mate,
which had come to light in Tiahuanaca, on the South American continent.
Schliemann's discovery validated thel writings of H.P.Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Blavatsky wrote that the Trojan War coincided with the cycle of events
described in the Mahabharata, and that Homer's Iliad was but a copy of the Ramayana. Blavatsky's work was in, her time, an outrage and was condemned by men of science
and theology. I found it quite interesting however that both Hitler and Einstein studied her writings in depth. What were they looking for if not the hidden knowledge within these
books.
Homer declared that Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had lived in Mycenae, and, according to Pausanius, they were buried there. Based on this information Schliemann began
his excavations. In the hillside tombs he found a number of skeletons wearing golden crowns, masks and girdles, and a vast treasure house filled with golden ornaments
which, he believed, had once adorned fair Helen of Troy. No longer was the Iliad regarded by scholars as mere fairytale!
After Schliemann, Professor Sayce of Oxford went further to suggest the word Tiryns come from an ancient pre-Aryan language spoken in the penisula before the Greeks
arrived. Based on this new found history, we then come to realize also that these prehistoric settlers were called by the Greeks Pelasgians. These people lived in the time of
the building of the great Lion Gate of Mycenae, with a slab weight of a hundred tons, poised twenty feet above ground level. They were also the race that existed during the time
of the building of the great hillside tombs of Mycenae with their 45 foot domes built without a keystone. The magnificent architech were equal to the pyramids in their grandeur.
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans in Crete proved that these early settlers belonged to a highly cultured race. We have evidence that they had built a road across the island
upon which they travelled in wheeled chariots. Their palaces were equipped with bath-rooms, running water, drainage systems, heating devices, and even elevators! Their
artificers in ivory and bronze "wrought masterpieces which remain today among the world's greatest works of art."
THE GODS
Our belief structure today consists of 'IF you can't touch it, feel it ..or smell it...It doesn't exist. We , because of our conditioning through education and media, we are content in
believing we came from 'monkeys' . The Greeks however veiwed things differently and proudly traced their lineage to the Gods. These gods were divided into three distinct
classes: the Immortals, who dwelt on Mount Olympus; the inferior gods, who animated Nature; and the demi-gods, half mortal and half immortal.
The Gods of Olympus may be regarded in seven different ways. The meaning of the myths depends on the personification of the gods, which may be any of the following: of the
noumena of the intelligent Powers of nature; of Cosmic Forces; of celestial bodies; of self-conscious gods; of psychic and spiritual powers; of Divine Kings on earth; and
finally, as actual historical characters. A historical character that was seen as a god , for example, was Odin. Odin's lineage can be traced through the Tribe of Dann and we
can show his travels even into the Mayan Traditions. Other examples of demi-gods
THE FOUR AGES OF MAN
In my book, Living in the Light, I describe Four Ages of man and his evolution from the Gold Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in more detail. But following is a brief
description of these Ages. Ref: H. P. Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine
The Golden Age was the period when the First Race lived in the "Sacred Imperishable Land" which capped the North Pole. The forms of this Race were ethereal. They could
walk, run, fly, and see objects at a distance. They were sexless and the principle of Karma had not yet been developed.
The Silver Age occupied the Hyperborean Continent. . The Greeks called it the "land of the gods," for it was the favorite abode of Apollo, the god of light, and its inhabitants
were his beloved priests. The story of this Race is contained in the myth of Uranos, the King of the Second Continent. He personified the creative forces of nature, while his
wife Gaea represented matter, the basis of all forms. According to the legend, Uranos produced giants and nymphs from drops of his own blood, suggesting the method of
reproduction in this Race. When the new gods arrived, , they began experimenting on the creation of mankind, creating the new age.
The Bronze Age was inhabitied by the Third Race of Man in Lemuria. This Race was itself divided into three periods. The early Lemurians were sexless, producing their young
by exuding drops of vital fluid, which formed an egg-shaped ball. The myth of Leda, whose twin sons were gestated in an egg, refers to this early method of procreation. Then
came a cycle of bisexuality. Plato gives us a description of the Third Race at this point of its evolution. "Our nature of old," he wrote, "was not the same as it now is. It was then
androgynous. Our bodies were round, and the manner of their running was circular. Hence Zeus divided them into two." Finally mankind became male and female, and since
that time the reincarnating Ego has depended upon the union of the sexes for the production of its physical vehicle. *Adam and Eve and E DIN
At the beginning of the Fourth Round on this globe, every class of being was one-eyed. The "one-eyed Cyclops" of Greek mythology, those giants fabled as sons of Coelus and
Terra, three in number, represented the last three sub-races of the Lemurians, for the two front eyes, as physical organs, did not appear until the beginning of the Fourth Race.
The myth of Ulysses, who visited the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus and destroyed his vision by means of a fire-brand, symbolizes the atrophy of the "third eye." The
adventure of Ulysses with the pastoral Cyclops, a giant race, is an allegorical record of the gradual passing of the Cyclopean civilization of stone and gigantic buildings to the
more physical and sensuous culture of the Atlanteans, which finally caused the "eye of wisdom" to disappear.
In the middle of the Third Race, the "lighting up of Manas" occurred. At the beginning of our evolution the Monad (the "vivifying agent" present in every atom in the universe) had
been plunged first into the lowest form of matter, the mineral. Gradually, by the passage of the Life Wave through the vegetable and animal kingdoms, a superior form was
evolved -- ready at last for the Host of Manasaputra whose destiny it was to incarnate upon this globe. Some of these mindless human forms were neither ready nor suitable
for occupancy and remained destitute of higher knowledge until the Fourth Race. Into those forms which were half ready, a spark of intelligence was infused. Into those forms
which were ready, the "Lords of the Flame" entered, kindling the germ of mind in the "mindless men" and adding to them the flame of their own Manas.
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The Secret Doctrine. Blavatsky adopted the nomenclature for the geological periods devised by Sir Charles Lyell, the "Father" of geology. To this she applied a proportional
calculation based on thickness of strata that was proposed by Professor Lefevre, which harmonized with occult data regarding the true age of the strata. Thus, the Pleistocene
(Lyell's Quaternary) began about 1,600,000 years ago. The Cenozoic Era (Lyell's Tertiary), or that of Atlantis, began about 10-12,000,000 years ago; and the Mesozoic (the old
Secondary) about 37,000,000 years ago (Cf. S.D., 2:693-711). These are the time-periods intended to be understood in talking of Atlantis and Lemuria, and the present fifth
race. The latter was formerly identified by Western scholars as the Aryan peoples, but now is termed the Indo-European speaking peoples of the world.] This theosophical
interpretation can explain why certain aboriginal Indian traditions emphasize a "fourth" and others a "fifth" world. Those, like the Hopis, who say they have "one foot in the fifth
world" and, by proper living, can bring in "the other foot" as well, really are telling us that although their roots derive from the previous stock-race they have survived beyond its
natural term into the present or Aryan world and so can in some important sense fully enter it. Others apparently by reason of more recent racial origin believe they are an Aryan
or fifth-race stock.
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BIBLICAL NAMES OF GIANTS
In chapter 15:18-21 they are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples: "Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites" (Genesis 15:19-21; compare Exodus 3:8,17; 23:23. Deuteronomy 7; 20:17. Joshua 12:8).
These were to be cut off, and driven out, and utterly destroyed (Deuteronomy 20:17. Joshua 3:10). But Israel failed in this (Joshua 13:13; 15:63; 16:10; 17:18. Judges 1:
19,20,28,29,30-36; 2:1-5; 3:1-7);
As to their other names, they were called Anakim, from one Anak which came of the Nephilim (Numbers 13:22,33), and Rephaim, from Rapha, another notable one among
them.
From Deuteronomy 2:10, they were known by some as Emim, and Horim, and Zamzummim (verse 20,21) and Avim, etc.
ANAK
(a' nak) HEBREW: ANAQ
A race of giants called the Anakim traced their ancestry to Anak, the son of the Canaanite Arba, founder of Kiriath-Arba (the city later known as Hebron).
*Hebron, the land Caleb received for his inheritance, is the focus of contemporary land conflict between Palestinians and Jews, and is much in the news
Anak's descendants were conquered and displaced by Caleb, one of the scouts whom Moses had sent decades earlier to spy out the land of Canaan.
Giants like the Anakim were also known as Nephilim, thought to be superhuman progeny of the sons of God and the daughters on men cited in Genesis 6:4.
{E2 Dictionary of Biblical People}
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RULING GODS DURING THIS TIME
These creatures could speak the local language and were friendly. They were called "Nommo" meaning "the monitors" and their home planet was in the Sirius system orbiting
Emme Ya. The Nommo stayed on Earth for some time teaching.
They are described as having arms and legs but also a fish tail, that they breathed through 2 holes in their back, had a slimy skin, and pointed teeth. These holes however
could have been some artificial breathing apparatus that they needed due to the fact that they could not breath our air.
Dagon was the fish-god of the Philistines. Dagon was the founder of Sumerian, Babylonian, and Chinese civilizations.
It was recorded by the ancient Greeks that the Babylonian civilization had been founded long before the great flood by amphibious beings called Oannes, Musari, or Annedoti.
The latter 2 names mean "abominations" and "repulsive ones". Despite the names these rulers were greatly loved and credited with providing us with all knowledge and
learning and the founding of civilizations.
The monitorial duties of the Nommo may have included helping to save Noah by providing him with his Ark. The book of Enoch says the ark was built by the Angels or
"watchers". Some of these Watchers "fell to earth" (came from the sky ) and became the gods of the olden times - best known to us from the Greek legends and the Indian
vedas.
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EXTERMINATION OF THE GIANTS AND THE GODDESS TRADITIONS.
The Greeks preserved the tradition of the sinking of Atlantis in the myth of Deucalion. The legend says that after the fourth race had passed its apex of development, a change
occurred in men. Modesty, truth and honor fled, and in their place came crime, fraud, cunning and the wicked love of gain. Seeing the condition into which the earth had fallen,
Jupiter determined to destroy it and form a new land where men would have fresh opportunities to live a virtuous life. So the waters came and covered the land, leaving only
Mount Olympus above the waves. There Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha found shelter, and from them sprang the new, fifth race. * This story was later mimicked by the Hebrew
in the story of Noah and the Flood.
The People of Cain
Cain went to the land of Nod, and produced giants. They were smart educated, intelligent, builders, inventors and scientists and knew the art of metal. The Scripture says one
of those giants had fourteen inch fingers. Now, your finger is just as long as your closed hand -Open it up; that would be a twenty-eight inch hand! In short, that's a mens
tungsten wedding bands size of a whopping 448! The God of Moses commanded Moses to exterminate the whole race of these people from the Land of Canaan whom He
said would corrupt their morals and pervert their heart to paganism if they intermarried or made agreements with them. Here we find the 2 opposing gods , Enlil and Enki, in
the war of the gods with the people of earth being caught right in the middle , being forced to take sides .
CAPTAIN COOK , CAPTAIN MAGELLAN AND THE GIANTS
On his historic round the world trip, Captain Magellan made an interesting reference in his ship's logbook. He mentioned a race of giants living on the Pacific coast of South
America.
But even a stranger event happened in this area. Captain Cooke wrote of actually capturing one of the giants and tying it to his ship's mast. This human was reported to be over
nine feet tall. The giant freed himself from the ropes, and was last seen when he dived overboard.
H.P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine
The Secret Doctrine teaches that the Aryan nations of the present are in their fifth root-race. Hence the Aryan nations could trace their descent through the Atlanteans, who
constituted the fourth root-race, from the more spiritual races of the Lemurians who preceded the Atlanteans, and in whom the "Sons of Wisdom" had personally incarnated.
*See Leumurian1 . It is taught that with the advent of the divine Dynasties, ... Referred to, the first civilizations were started. Under the guidance of their divine Rulers, the third-
race built large cities, cultivated arts and sciences, and knew astronomy, architecture and mathematics to perfection. Such divine Dynasties among men were claimed by the
Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, etc., as being those which preceded their human kings; they are still believed in by the modern Hindus, and are enumerated in their sacred
books.
The primeval civilization, that of the Lemurians, did not, as one may think, immediately follow their physiological transformation (i.e., that of the separation of the sexes from the
hermaphroditic condition which preceded). Between the final evolution and the first city built by the third-race Humanity, many hundred thousands of years had passed. We find
the Lemurians in their sixth sub-race building their first rock-cities, out of stone and lava. One of such great cities of primitive structure was built entirely of lava, some thirty
miles west from where Easter Island now stretches its narrow piece of sterile ground, and was entirely destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions. The oldest remains of
Cyclopean buildings were all the handiwork of the Lemurians of the last sub-races; and an occultist shows, therefore, no wonder on learning that the stone relics found on the
small piece of land called Easter Island by Captain Cook, are "very much like the walls of the Temple of Pachacamac or the Ruins of Tia-Huanuco in Peru," and that they are in
the CYCLOPEAN STYLE. The first large cities appeared on that region of the continent which is now the island of Madagascar. It is further asserted that there were civilized
people and savages in those days as there are now.
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GIANTS by Immanuel Velikovsky
The traditions of peoples all over the world are quite unanimous in asserting that an an earlier time a race of giants lived on the earth, that most of the race were destroyed in
great catastrophes; that they were of cruel nature and were furiously fighting among themselves; that the last of them were exterminated when after a cataclysm a migration of
peoples brought the forebears of the peoples of today to their new homelands.
The Japanese narrate that when their forefathers after a great catastrophe about two and a half or three thousand years ago, came from the continent and invaded the isles,
they found there long-legged, furry giants. These giants were called Ainu. The forefathers of the Japanese were defeated in the first encounter, but in the second encounter they
were victorious.
Ixtlilxochitl described the wandering of peoples of the western hemisphere in the four ages of the world. The first age came to its end in the Flood. In the second age, called â
€œthe sun of the earthquake,â€� there lived the generation of the giants, which was destroyed in the cataclysm that terminated this age. The third peiord was the sun of the
wind, called so because at the end of this period terrible hurricanes annihilated everything. The new inhabitants of the new world were Ulme and Xicalauca who came from the
east to find a foothold at Potouchan: here they met a number of giants, the last survivors of the second catastrophe. The fourth age was called the fire sun, because of the great
fire that put an end to this epoch. At that time the Toltecs arrived in the land of Anahuac, put to flight by the catastrophe: they wandered for 104 years before they settled in their
new home.
Also F. L. Gomara in his Conquista de Mexico, in the chapter about cinco soles que son edades, wrote:
The second sun perished when the sky fell upon the earth; the collapse killed all the people and every living thing; and they say that giants lived in those days, and that to them
belong the bones that our Spaniards have found while digging mines and tombs. From their measure and proportion it seems that those men were twenty hands tall a very
great stature, but quite certain.(1)
The Hebrew scriptures as preserved in the Old Testament and in the Talmud and Midrashim, narrate that among the races of the world in a previous age were races of giants,
“men of great size and tremendous strength and ferocity, who were destroying other races, but also were turning upon each other and destroying themselves.
The Book of Genesis (6: 4) narrates that in the antediluvial time there were giants in the earth in those days. The Greek Book of Baruch narrates that over four hundred
thousand of the race of giants were destroyed by the Flood. After the Flood there were only a few districts where some of them remained alive.
When after a number of centuries another catastrophe ruined the world and the Israelites left Egypt and sent a few men to explore Palestine, those reported that the people of
the land were generally of tall stature, and that besides there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which came of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,
and so were we in their sight.
This description clearly differentiates between the people of a tall stature and the giants, and the supposition that the Israelites found in Palestine a normal race only taller than
themselves, and thought them to be giants, is not supported by the text.
A similar distinction is made in Deuteronomy (1: 28): “The people is greater and taller than we . . . and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim [giants] there. "There
a few families lived in Hebron" (Numbers 13: 22).
At the time when the Israelites approached the fields of Bashan in the Transjordan, only Og king of Bashanremained of the remnant of the giants (Joshua 13:12 and Deut. 3:
11). The other individuals of monstrous size had been annihilated in the meantime. "Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits is the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." The text implies that at the time the book of Deuteronomy was written the
bedstead of Og was still in existence and was a wonder for the onlookers.
The giants were the remnant of a race close to extinction. Og was of the remnant of the giants that dwelt in Ashtaroth and Edrel (Joshua 12: 4). They were also called Emim, or
the furious ones. The Emim dwelt therein [in Moab of the Transjordan] in times past, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim, which also were accounted giants, as
the Anakim; but Moab calls them Emim. This branch of the giants was already extinct; but two cosmic ages earlier, in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Abraham the
Patriarch, Eimim flourished in the Transjordan (Genesis 14: 5).
References
Historia de la conquista de Mexico, (Mexico City, 1943), Vol. II, p. 261.
NEPHILM by
Immanuel Velikovsky
The present state of the Moon and of Mars and other celestial bodies does not imply that in the past they were equally desolate. Concerning Mars and Moon we have the
testimony of our ancestors, supported by modern observations, that these bodies were engaged in near-collisions only a few thousand years ago. It is not excluded that under
conditions prevailing on their surfaces prior to these events, life could have developed there or elsewhere in the solar system to an advanced stage.
Working in the early 1940’s on Worlds in Collision, which in its original form covered also the cataclysmic events preceding the Exodus, I wondered at a certain description
that sounded like a visit from space.(1)
The sixth chapter of the book of Genesis starts this way:
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God [bnei Elim] saw the daughters of men that
they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.(2)
The story told in Genesis VI about the sons of God (bnei Elim) coming to the daughters of men is usually explained as referring to an advanced priesthood that mingled with
backward tribesmen.(3) When Columbus discovered America, the natives, according to the diary of his first voyage, regarded him and his crew as having arrived from the sky.
(4) A similar occurrence could have taken place in predeluvial times, when some invaders from a remote part of the world came and were regarded as Sons of God.
But if we are today on the eve of interplanetary travel, we must not declare as absolutely impossible the thought that this Earth was visited, ages ago, by some people from
another planet. Or was this earth alone populated by intelligent beings? In my understanding this passage from the book of Genesis is a literary relic dealing with a visit of
intelligent beings from another planet.
It appears that the extraterrestrial visitors made their landing as if in advance knowledge of the impending catastrophe of the Deluge.(5) It could be that Jupiter and Saturn were
approaching each other ever closer on their orbits and that a disruption of one of them was expected.(6)
Possibly many centuries, or even millennia, passed between the landing and the Deluge. The mission could have been undertaken to ascertain the conditions on Earth. If it
was an escape it could also have been from another catastrophe in the solar system, one of those that preceded the Deluge, like the one described as the dethronement and
emasculation of Uranus by Kronos. If the ancient legends of a battle between the gods and titans, so persistent in the Greek world, but also in the mythologies of other
civilizations, have any historical value, we may try to find what may have been the substratum of this fantasy. It seems that following great convulsions of nature observable in
the celestial sphere, giant bodies were hurled on the earth. They arrived burned and were crushed by impact.(7) But at least one group of escapees succeeded in safely
reaching the earth.(8) They descended on Mount Hermon or Anti-Lebanon.(9) Of the extra-biblical traditions dealing with the subject some reach hoary antiquity, antecedent to
the composition of the Biblical texts. The Book of Enoch narrates that the group was composed of males only, two hundred in number, under the leadership of one by the
name of Shemhazai.(10) The Aggadic literature says that the Sons of God tried to return to heaven from where they had come, but could not.(11)
The new arrivals were probably of gigantic stature . Their progeny with women of the earth were giants:
The Nephilim were on earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty
men that were of old, the men of renown.(12)
Having fathered giants, they themselves must have been not of human size.(13)
The planet from which they came I would not know to determine. El would refer to Saturn.(14) The great size of the visitors would suggest a smaller body where the
gravitational influence would be less.(15)
Ten thousand years is only an instant in the life of the cosmos; ten thousand years ago man was only in a rude stone age; today he contemplates to visit other planets. If such
progress is made in a time as short as this, who knows what secrets are concealed in the past or in the future?
References
Because the story seemed so fantastic, I made up my mind at that time not to publish anything on the subject when discussing the Deluge and still earlier events. I came to
this idea in 1940-41. In the 1950's many people reported sighting UFO's, which were claimed to be vehicles of visitors from other planets (a view which does not find any
credence with me). In 1957 the space age began, and by the late 1960's, when the proposal that there were ancient visitors to Earth from other star systems found its way into
print, the idea provoked little ridicule.
Genesis 6:1-2
Cf. S. R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 6th ed. (New York, 1907), pp. 82f. [J. Morgenstern, however, considered them to be heavenly beings (The Mythological Background of
Psalm 82)Hebrew Union College Annual XIV, 1939, p. 95.)]
The Journal of Christopher Columbus, tr. by C. R. Markham (London, 1893)—October 14th, 1892: "They asked us if we had come from heaven. One old man came into the
boat . . . To come and see the men who had come from heaven."
Their story in fact precedes that the of Deluge in the Scriptures.
[Later in this book Velikovsky traces the cause of the Deluge to a disruption of Saturn by Jupiter. See below, Part II: Saturn and the Flood.]
[Velikovsky seems to be referring to the passage in Ovid's Metamorphoses describing the crushed bodies of the defeated giants: "The terrible bodies of the giants lay crushed
beneath their own massive structures" Transl. by M. Innes (London, 1955)]
[Analogous accounts are reported from the New World. Cf. The Inca account recorded by Pedro Cieza de Leon in the fifty-second chapter of his La Cronica del Peru.]
In 1960 a Russian physicist and mathematician, M. Agrest, came to the conclusion that the Baalbek stone was a platform for ascent by ancient space travelers, and that
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by atomic weapons. (Literarnaya Gazeta, February 9th, 1960). At the time I saw some alluring points in this thesis ”but I would strongly
question the implication that extraterrestrial visitors came to Earth as late as the Old Kingdom in Egypt, because this is the time to which the Patriarch Abraham, a
contemporary of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, belongs.
The Book of Enoch VI. 6-7, transl. by R. H. Charles (Oxford, 1912).
Ginzberg, Legends V. 172; Aggadat Bereshit.
Genesis 6:4
Previously several correspondents engaged me on the subject; one correctly observed that in order to procreate the visitors must have been of the same species as man.
[Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica IV. xvi; bnei Elim would more correctly be rendered as Sons of the Gods and may possibly be taken in the sense of Sons of the Planets, or
Those who Came from the Planets.
[Several sources, including The Book of Enoch and Clement of Alexandria (Eclog. Proph. iii. 474, Dindorf ed.) maintain that the Nefilim brought with them much astronomical
and technical knowledge which they imparted to mankind.]
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THE PREHISTORIC RACES
RACE OF GIANTS WHO WERE 'IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS' OF OLD
Millions of years ago, before what we call 'modern' man an ancient race with high intelligence, advanced technology and aerospace capabilities lived on earth. Great earth
catastrophies wiped out much of this race , mutated some and drove many more underground. While waiting out the effects of what an ancient nucleur war created on the
surface, man went back to a more natural or should I say 'simplistic' culture. By the time they once again surfaced to the earth or even came back from distance planets the
Age of Man had changed. Knowledge was lost and the old technology was gone. Man had to start over. ..as they had done in previous Ages.
Today we still remain very ignorant of our past. Until 1847, almost nothing was known about fossil man. Science ignored the study of ancient man. It was only thorugh the
bible and traditions that the western worlds had any reference to these wonderous races. One such race was the race of Giants who were "in the earth in those days" of old.
H.P. Blavataksy, The Secret Doctrine, points out to us references in the Bible and in our tradition about the Rephaim (Giants,(the mighty ones), the spectres (Phantoms), the
Nephilim, or the fallen ones.. they are shown "as if identical, though they are all men, since the Bible calls them the primitive and the mighty ones" -- e.g., Nimrod. These
names, which belong by right only to the four preceding races and the earliest beginning of the Fifth, allude very clearly to the first two Phantom (astral) races; to the fallen one
-- the Third; and to the race of the Atlantean Giants -- the Fourth, after which "men began to decrease in stature."
Although Science has come a long way since 1847, they, for their own reasons, have not shared this information with the world populas. We have been kept in the dark . Not
only kept in the dark, but conditioned and trained through the educational system, media and peers to scoff and shut out alternative ideas about the history of man.
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HOMERS ILLAD TRUE
Again the same similarities in Sumerian and Babylonian Culture
Science is not infallible and many ideas they scoffed at have actually come true. For example , did you ever consider that Homer's Illad is true? Troy was considered a fantasy
and science would not recognize that such a wondrous place such as this could have actually existed. Thanks to the determination in the late 1800's of German-American
archeologist, Professor Heinrich Schliemann , it was alas proved that the accounts of the Trojan War were indeed true. That Agamemnon, after his return from theTrojan War
was slain by his wife Clytemnestra , who in turn was murdered by her children, Orestes and Electra. While excavating in Troy he had found, in the treasure house of Priam, an
exquisitely wrought bronze vase bearing the inscription: From King Chronos of Atlantis. Ten years later, while wandering through the Louvre in Paris, he came across its mate,
which had come to light in Tiahuanaca, on the South American continent.
Schliemann's discovery validated thel writings of H.P.Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. Blavatsky wrote that the Trojan War coincided with the cycle of events
described in the Mahabharata, and that Homer's Iliad was but a copy of the Ramayana. Blavatsky's work was in, her time, an outrage and was condemned by men of science
and theology. I found it quite interesting however that both Hitler and Einstein studied her writings in depth. What were they looking for if not the hidden knowledge within these
books.
Homer declared that Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had lived in Mycenae, and, according to Pausanius, they were buried there. Based on this information Schliemann began
his excavations. In the hillside tombs he found a number of skeletons wearing golden crowns, masks and girdles, and a vast treasure house filled with golden ornaments
which, he believed, had once adorned fair Helen of Troy. No longer was the Iliad regarded by scholars as mere fairytale!
After Schliemann, Professor Sayce of Oxford went further to suggest the word Tiryns come from an ancient pre-Aryan language spoken in the penisula before the Greeks
arrived. Based on this new found history, we then come to realize also that these prehistoric settlers were called by the Greeks Pelasgians. These people lived in the time of
the building of the great Lion Gate of Mycenae, with a slab weight of a hundred tons, poised twenty feet above ground level. They were also the race that existed during the time
of the building of the great hillside tombs of Mycenae with their 45 foot domes built without a keystone. The magnificent architech were equal to the pyramids in their grandeur.
The excavations of Sir Arthur Evans in Crete proved that these early settlers belonged to a highly cultured race. We have evidence that they had built a road across the island
upon which they travelled in wheeled chariots. Their palaces were equipped with bath-rooms, running water, drainage systems, heating devices, and even elevators! Their
artificers in ivory and bronze "wrought masterpieces which remain today among the world's greatest works of art."
THE GODS
Our belief structure today consists of 'IF you can't touch it, feel it ..or smell it...It doesn't exist. We , because of our conditioning through education and media, we are content in
believing we came from 'monkeys' . The Greeks however veiwed things differently and proudly traced their lineage to the Gods. These gods were divided into three distinct
classes: the Immortals, who dwelt on Mount Olympus; the inferior gods, who animated Nature; and the demi-gods, half mortal and half immortal.
The Gods of Olympus may be regarded in seven different ways. The meaning of the myths depends on the personification of the gods, which may be any of the following: of the
noumena of the intelligent Powers of nature; of Cosmic Forces; of celestial bodies; of self-conscious gods; of psychic and spiritual powers; of Divine Kings on earth; and
finally, as actual historical characters. A historical character that was seen as a god , for example, was Odin. Odin's lineage can be traced through the Tribe of Dann and we
can show his travels even into the Mayan Traditions. Other examples of demi-gods
THE FOUR AGES OF MAN
In my book, Living in the Light, I describe Four Ages of man and his evolution from the Gold Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in more detail. But following is a brief
description of these Ages. Ref: H. P. Blavatsky , The Secret Doctrine
The Golden Age was the period when the First Race lived in the "Sacred Imperishable Land" which capped the North Pole. The forms of this Race were ethereal. They could
walk, run, fly, and see objects at a distance. They were sexless and the principle of Karma had not yet been developed.
The Silver Age occupied the Hyperborean Continent. . The Greeks called it the "land of the gods," for it was the favorite abode of Apollo, the god of light, and its inhabitants
were his beloved priests. The story of this Race is contained in the myth of Uranos, the King of the Second Continent. He personified the creative forces of nature, while his
wife Gaea represented matter, the basis of all forms. According to the legend, Uranos produced giants and nymphs from drops of his own blood, suggesting the method of
reproduction in this Race. When the new gods arrived, , they began experimenting on the creation of mankind, creating the new age.
The Bronze Age was inhabitied by the Third Race of Man in Lemuria. This Race was itself divided into three periods. The early Lemurians were sexless, producing their young
by exuding drops of vital fluid, which formed an egg-shaped ball. The myth of Leda, whose twin sons were gestated in an egg, refers to this early method of procreation. Then
came a cycle of bisexuality. Plato gives us a description of the Third Race at this point of its evolution. "Our nature of old," he wrote, "was not the same as it now is. It was then
androgynous. Our bodies were round, and the manner of their running was circular. Hence Zeus divided them into two." Finally mankind became male and female, and since
that time the reincarnating Ego has depended upon the union of the sexes for the production of its physical vehicle. *Adam and Eve and E DIN
At the beginning of the Fourth Round on this globe, every class of being was one-eyed. The "one-eyed Cyclops" of Greek mythology, those giants fabled as sons of Coelus and
Terra, three in number, represented the last three sub-races of the Lemurians, for the two front eyes, as physical organs, did not appear until the beginning of the Fourth Race.
The myth of Ulysses, who visited the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus and destroyed his vision by means of a fire-brand, symbolizes the atrophy of the "third eye." The
adventure of Ulysses with the pastoral Cyclops, a giant race, is an allegorical record of the gradual passing of the Cyclopean civilization of stone and gigantic buildings to the
more physical and sensuous culture of the Atlanteans, which finally caused the "eye of wisdom" to disappear.
In the middle of the Third Race, the "lighting up of Manas" occurred. At the beginning of our evolution the Monad (the "vivifying agent" present in every atom in the universe) had
been plunged first into the lowest form of matter, the mineral. Gradually, by the passage of the Life Wave through the vegetable and animal kingdoms, a superior form was
evolved -- ready at last for the Host of Manasaputra whose destiny it was to incarnate upon this globe. Some of these mindless human forms were neither ready nor suitable
for occupancy and remained destitute of higher knowledge until the Fourth Race. Into those forms which were half ready, a spark of intelligence was infused. Into those forms
which were ready, the "Lords of the Flame" entered, kindling the germ of mind in the "mindless men" and adding to them the flame of their own Manas.
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The Secret Doctrine. Blavatsky adopted the nomenclature for the geological periods devised by Sir Charles Lyell, the "Father" of geology. To this she applied a proportional
calculation based on thickness of strata that was proposed by Professor Lefevre, which harmonized with occult data regarding the true age of the strata. Thus, the Pleistocene
(Lyell's Quaternary) began about 1,600,000 years ago. The Cenozoic Era (Lyell's Tertiary), or that of Atlantis, began about 10-12,000,000 years ago; and the Mesozoic (the old
Secondary) about 37,000,000 years ago (Cf. S.D., 2:693-711). These are the time-periods intended to be understood in talking of Atlantis and Lemuria, and the present fifth
race. The latter was formerly identified by Western scholars as the Aryan peoples, but now is termed the Indo-European speaking peoples of the world.] This theosophical
interpretation can explain why certain aboriginal Indian traditions emphasize a "fourth" and others a "fifth" world. Those, like the Hopis, who say they have "one foot in the fifth
world" and, by proper living, can bring in "the other foot" as well, really are telling us that although their roots derive from the previous stock-race they have survived beyond its
natural term into the present or Aryan world and so can in some important sense fully enter it. Others apparently by reason of more recent racial origin believe they are an Aryan
or fifth-race stock.
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BIBLICAL NAMES OF GIANTS
In chapter 15:18-21 they are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples: "Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites" (Genesis 15:19-21; compare Exodus 3:8,17; 23:23. Deuteronomy 7; 20:17. Joshua 12:8).
These were to be cut off, and driven out, and utterly destroyed (Deuteronomy 20:17. Joshua 3:10). But Israel failed in this (Joshua 13:13; 15:63; 16:10; 17:18. Judges 1:
19,20,28,29,30-36; 2:1-5; 3:1-7);
As to their other names, they were called Anakim, from one Anak which came of the Nephilim (Numbers 13:22,33), and Rephaim, from Rapha, another notable one among
them.
From Deuteronomy 2:10, they were known by some as Emim, and Horim, and Zamzummim (verse 20,21) and Avim, etc.
ANAK
(a' nak) HEBREW: ANAQ
A race of giants called the Anakim traced their ancestry to Anak, the son of the Canaanite Arba, founder of Kiriath-Arba (the city later known as Hebron).
*Hebron, the land Caleb received for his inheritance, is the focus of contemporary land conflict between Palestinians and Jews, and is much in the news
Anak's descendants were conquered and displaced by Caleb, one of the scouts whom Moses had sent decades earlier to spy out the land of Canaan.
Giants like the Anakim were also known as Nephilim, thought to be superhuman progeny of the sons of God and the daughters on men cited in Genesis 6:4.
{E2 Dictionary of Biblical People}
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RULING GODS DURING THIS TIME
These creatures could speak the local language and were friendly. They were called "Nommo" meaning "the monitors" and their home planet was in the Sirius system orbiting
Emme Ya. The Nommo stayed on Earth for some time teaching.
They are described as having arms and legs but also a fish tail, that they breathed through 2 holes in their back, had a slimy skin, and pointed teeth. These holes however
could have been some artificial breathing apparatus that they needed due to the fact that they could not breath our air.
Dagon was the fish-god of the Philistines. Dagon was the founder of Sumerian, Babylonian, and Chinese civilizations.
It was recorded by the ancient Greeks that the Babylonian civilization had been founded long before the great flood by amphibious beings called Oannes, Musari, or Annedoti.
The latter 2 names mean "abominations" and "repulsive ones". Despite the names these rulers were greatly loved and credited with providing us with all knowledge and
learning and the founding of civilizations.
The monitorial duties of the Nommo may have included helping to save Noah by providing him with his Ark. The book of Enoch says the ark was built by the Angels or
"watchers". Some of these Watchers "fell to earth" (came from the sky ) and became the gods of the olden times - best known to us from the Greek legends and the Indian
vedas.
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EXTERMINATION OF THE GIANTS AND THE GODDESS TRADITIONS.
The Greeks preserved the tradition of the sinking of Atlantis in the myth of Deucalion. The legend says that after the fourth race had passed its apex of development, a change
occurred in men. Modesty, truth and honor fled, and in their place came crime, fraud, cunning and the wicked love of gain. Seeing the condition into which the earth had fallen,
Jupiter determined to destroy it and form a new land where men would have fresh opportunities to live a virtuous life. So the waters came and covered the land, leaving only
Mount Olympus above the waves. There Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha found shelter, and from them sprang the new, fifth race. * This story was later mimicked by the Hebrew
in the story of Noah and the Flood.
The People of Cain
Cain went to the land of Nod, and produced giants. They were smart educated, intelligent, builders, inventors and scientists and knew the art of metal. The Scripture says one
of those giants had fourteen inch fingers. Now, your finger is just as long as your closed hand -Open it up; that would be a twenty-eight inch hand! In short, that's a mens
tungsten wedding bands size of a whopping 448! The God of Moses commanded Moses to exterminate the whole race of these people from the Land of Canaan whom He
said would corrupt their morals and pervert their heart to paganism if they intermarried or made agreements with them. Here we find the 2 opposing gods , Enlil and Enki, in
the war of the gods with the people of earth being caught right in the middle , being forced to take sides .
CAPTAIN COOK , CAPTAIN MAGELLAN AND THE GIANTS
On his historic round the world trip, Captain Magellan made an interesting reference in his ship's logbook. He mentioned a race of giants living on the Pacific coast of South
America.
But even a stranger event happened in this area. Captain Cooke wrote of actually capturing one of the giants and tying it to his ship's mast. This human was reported to be over
nine feet tall. The giant freed himself from the ropes, and was last seen when he dived overboard.
H.P. Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine
The Secret Doctrine teaches that the Aryan nations of the present are in their fifth root-race. Hence the Aryan nations could trace their descent through the Atlanteans, who
constituted the fourth root-race, from the more spiritual races of the Lemurians who preceded the Atlanteans, and in whom the "Sons of Wisdom" had personally incarnated.
*See Leumurian1 . It is taught that with the advent of the divine Dynasties, ... Referred to, the first civilizations were started. Under the guidance of their divine Rulers, the third-
race built large cities, cultivated arts and sciences, and knew astronomy, architecture and mathematics to perfection. Such divine Dynasties among men were claimed by the
Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, etc., as being those which preceded their human kings; they are still believed in by the modern Hindus, and are enumerated in their sacred
books.
The primeval civilization, that of the Lemurians, did not, as one may think, immediately follow their physiological transformation (i.e., that of the separation of the sexes from the
hermaphroditic condition which preceded). Between the final evolution and the first city built by the third-race Humanity, many hundred thousands of years had passed. We find
the Lemurians in their sixth sub-race building their first rock-cities, out of stone and lava. One of such great cities of primitive structure was built entirely of lava, some thirty
miles west from where Easter Island now stretches its narrow piece of sterile ground, and was entirely destroyed by a series of volcanic eruptions. The oldest remains of
Cyclopean buildings were all the handiwork of the Lemurians of the last sub-races; and an occultist shows, therefore, no wonder on learning that the stone relics found on the
small piece of land called Easter Island by Captain Cook, are "very much like the walls of the Temple of Pachacamac or the Ruins of Tia-Huanuco in Peru," and that they are in
the CYCLOPEAN STYLE. The first large cities appeared on that region of the continent which is now the island of Madagascar. It is further asserted that there were civilized
people and savages in those days as there are now.
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GIANTS by Immanuel Velikovsky
The traditions of peoples all over the world are quite unanimous in asserting that an an earlier time a race of giants lived on the earth, that most of the race were destroyed in
great catastrophes; that they were of cruel nature and were furiously fighting among themselves; that the last of them were exterminated when after a cataclysm a migration of
peoples brought the forebears of the peoples of today to their new homelands.
The Japanese narrate that when their forefathers after a great catastrophe about two and a half or three thousand years ago, came from the continent and invaded the isles,
they found there long-legged, furry giants. These giants were called Ainu. The forefathers of the Japanese were defeated in the first encounter, but in the second encounter they
were victorious.
Ixtlilxochitl described the wandering of peoples of the western hemisphere in the four ages of the world. The first age came to its end in the Flood. In the second age, called â
€œthe sun of the earthquake,â€� there lived the generation of the giants, which was destroyed in the cataclysm that terminated this age. The third peiord was the sun of the
wind, called so because at the end of this period terrible hurricanes annihilated everything. The new inhabitants of the new world were Ulme and Xicalauca who came from the
east to find a foothold at Potouchan: here they met a number of giants, the last survivors of the second catastrophe. The fourth age was called the fire sun, because of the great
fire that put an end to this epoch. At that time the Toltecs arrived in the land of Anahuac, put to flight by the catastrophe: they wandered for 104 years before they settled in their
new home.
Also F. L. Gomara in his Conquista de Mexico, in the chapter about cinco soles que son edades, wrote:
The second sun perished when the sky fell upon the earth; the collapse killed all the people and every living thing; and they say that giants lived in those days, and that to them
belong the bones that our Spaniards have found while digging mines and tombs. From their measure and proportion it seems that those men were twenty hands tall a very
great stature, but quite certain.(1)
The Hebrew scriptures as preserved in the Old Testament and in the Talmud and Midrashim, narrate that among the races of the world in a previous age were races of giants,
“men of great size and tremendous strength and ferocity, who were destroying other races, but also were turning upon each other and destroying themselves.
The Book of Genesis (6: 4) narrates that in the antediluvial time there were giants in the earth in those days. The Greek Book of Baruch narrates that over four hundred
thousand of the race of giants were destroyed by the Flood. After the Flood there were only a few districts where some of them remained alive.
When after a number of centuries another catastrophe ruined the world and the Israelites left Egypt and sent a few men to explore Palestine, those reported that the people of
the land were generally of tall stature, and that besides there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which came of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,
and so were we in their sight.
This description clearly differentiates between the people of a tall stature and the giants, and the supposition that the Israelites found in Palestine a normal race only taller than
themselves, and thought them to be giants, is not supported by the text.
A similar distinction is made in Deuteronomy (1: 28): “The people is greater and taller than we . . . and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim [giants] there. "There
a few families lived in Hebron" (Numbers 13: 22).
At the time when the Israelites approached the fields of Bashan in the Transjordan, only Og king of Bashanremained of the remnant of the giants (Joshua 13:12 and Deut. 3:
11). The other individuals of monstrous size had been annihilated in the meantime. "Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of
Ammon? nine cubits is the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." The text implies that at the time the book of Deuteronomy was written the
bedstead of Og was still in existence and was a wonder for the onlookers.
The giants were the remnant of a race close to extinction. Og was of the remnant of the giants that dwelt in Ashtaroth and Edrel (Joshua 12: 4). They were also called Emim, or
the furious ones. The Emim dwelt therein [in Moab of the Transjordan] in times past, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim, which also were accounted giants, as
the Anakim; but Moab calls them Emim. This branch of the giants was already extinct; but two cosmic ages earlier, in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Abraham the
Patriarch, Eimim flourished in the Transjordan (Genesis 14: 5).
References
Historia de la conquista de Mexico, (Mexico City, 1943), Vol. II, p. 261.
NEPHILM by
Immanuel Velikovsky
The present state of the Moon and of Mars and other celestial bodies does not imply that in the past they were equally desolate. Concerning Mars and Moon we have the
testimony of our ancestors, supported by modern observations, that these bodies were engaged in near-collisions only a few thousand years ago. It is not excluded that under
conditions prevailing on their surfaces prior to these events, life could have developed there or elsewhere in the solar system to an advanced stage.
Working in the early 1940’s on Worlds in Collision, which in its original form covered also the cataclysmic events preceding the Exodus, I wondered at a certain description
that sounded like a visit from space.(1)
The sixth chapter of the book of Genesis starts this way:
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God [bnei Elim] saw the daughters of men that
they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.(2)
The story told in Genesis VI about the sons of God (bnei Elim) coming to the daughters of men is usually explained as referring to an advanced priesthood that mingled with
backward tribesmen.(3) When Columbus discovered America, the natives, according to the diary of his first voyage, regarded him and his crew as having arrived from the sky.
(4) A similar occurrence could have taken place in predeluvial times, when some invaders from a remote part of the world came and were regarded as Sons of God.
But if we are today on the eve of interplanetary travel, we must not declare as absolutely impossible the thought that this Earth was visited, ages ago, by some people from
another planet. Or was this earth alone populated by intelligent beings? In my understanding this passage from the book of Genesis is a literary relic dealing with a visit of
intelligent beings from another planet.
It appears that the extraterrestrial visitors made their landing as if in advance knowledge of the impending catastrophe of the Deluge.(5) It could be that Jupiter and Saturn were
approaching each other ever closer on their orbits and that a disruption of one of them was expected.(6)
Possibly many centuries, or even millennia, passed between the landing and the Deluge. The mission could have been undertaken to ascertain the conditions on Earth. If it
was an escape it could also have been from another catastrophe in the solar system, one of those that preceded the Deluge, like the one described as the dethronement and
emasculation of Uranus by Kronos. If the ancient legends of a battle between the gods and titans, so persistent in the Greek world, but also in the mythologies of other
civilizations, have any historical value, we may try to find what may have been the substratum of this fantasy. It seems that following great convulsions of nature observable in
the celestial sphere, giant bodies were hurled on the earth. They arrived burned and were crushed by impact.(7) But at least one group of escapees succeeded in safely
reaching the earth.(8) They descended on Mount Hermon or Anti-Lebanon.(9) Of the extra-biblical traditions dealing with the subject some reach hoary antiquity, antecedent to
the composition of the Biblical texts. The Book of Enoch narrates that the group was composed of males only, two hundred in number, under the leadership of one by the
name of Shemhazai.(10) The Aggadic literature says that the Sons of God tried to return to heaven from where they had come, but could not.(11)
The new arrivals were probably of gigantic stature . Their progeny with women of the earth were giants:
The Nephilim were on earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty
men that were of old, the men of renown.(12)
Having fathered giants, they themselves must have been not of human size.(13)
The planet from which they came I would not know to determine. El would refer to Saturn.(14) The great size of the visitors would suggest a smaller body where the
gravitational influence would be less.(15)
Ten thousand years is only an instant in the life of the cosmos; ten thousand years ago man was only in a rude stone age; today he contemplates to visit other planets. If such
progress is made in a time as short as this, who knows what secrets are concealed in the past or in the future?
References
Because the story seemed so fantastic, I made up my mind at that time not to publish anything on the subject when discussing the Deluge and still earlier events. I came to
this idea in 1940-41. In the 1950's many people reported sighting UFO's, which were claimed to be vehicles of visitors from other planets (a view which does not find any
credence with me). In 1957 the space age began, and by the late 1960's, when the proposal that there were ancient visitors to Earth from other star systems found its way into
print, the idea provoked little ridicule.
Genesis 6:1-2
Cf. S. R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 6th ed. (New York, 1907), pp. 82f. [J. Morgenstern, however, considered them to be heavenly beings (The Mythological Background of
Psalm 82)Hebrew Union College Annual XIV, 1939, p. 95.)]
The Journal of Christopher Columbus, tr. by C. R. Markham (London, 1893)—October 14th, 1892: "They asked us if we had come from heaven. One old man came into the
boat . . . To come and see the men who had come from heaven."
Their story in fact precedes that the of Deluge in the Scriptures.
[Later in this book Velikovsky traces the cause of the Deluge to a disruption of Saturn by Jupiter. See below, Part II: Saturn and the Flood.]
[Velikovsky seems to be referring to the passage in Ovid's Metamorphoses describing the crushed bodies of the defeated giants: "The terrible bodies of the giants lay crushed
beneath their own massive structures" Transl. by M. Innes (London, 1955)]
[Analogous accounts are reported from the New World. Cf. The Inca account recorded by Pedro Cieza de Leon in the fifty-second chapter of his La Cronica del Peru.]
In 1960 a Russian physicist and mathematician, M. Agrest, came to the conclusion that the Baalbek stone was a platform for ascent by ancient space travelers, and that
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by atomic weapons. (Literarnaya Gazeta, February 9th, 1960). At the time I saw some alluring points in this thesis ”but I would strongly
question the implication that extraterrestrial visitors came to Earth as late as the Old Kingdom in Egypt, because this is the time to which the Patriarch Abraham, a
contemporary of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, belongs.
The Book of Enoch VI. 6-7, transl. by R. H. Charles (Oxford, 1912).
Ginzberg, Legends V. 172; Aggadat Bereshit.
Genesis 6:4
Previously several correspondents engaged me on the subject; one correctly observed that in order to procreate the visitors must have been of the same species as man.
[Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica IV. xvi; bnei Elim would more correctly be rendered as Sons of the Gods and may possibly be taken in the sense of Sons of the Planets, or
Those who Came from the Planets.
[Several sources, including The Book of Enoch and Clement of Alexandria (Eclog. Proph. iii. 474, Dindorf ed.) maintain that the Nefilim brought with them much astronomical
and technical knowledge which they imparted to mankind.]
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Was there a giant race of humans before us? Could there been a giant race existing before the flood.
One age of Man dying out being replaced by another.
Reports of giant remains and skeletons being unearthed show convincing evidence
that these giants indeed existed in a pre-existing culture.
Read below of the Giant Races of the World.
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Meet Mary Sutherland
Mary Sutherland's work focuses on psychical research (paranormal, or what is now
commonly referenced as parapsychology) and the understanding and reconstructing the
mental and cultural world of the 'Ancient Ones' and their bearing on modern humanity.
Mary Sutherland is the author of the following books
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She is also the creator of BURLINGTON NEWS one of the largest and most popular
websites on the world wide web.
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As a 'seeker of truth' she spends her time actively researching, writing and creating new
ideas to expand the consciousness and evolution of fellow seekers.
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Mary Sutherland's work focuses on psychical research (paranormal, or what is now
commonly referenced as parapsychology) and the understanding and reconstructing the
mental and cultural world of the 'Ancient Ones' and their bearing on modern humanity.
Mary Sutherland is the author of the following books
- Living in the Light: Believe in the Magic
- Mysteries: Exploring the Mysteries of Burlington and Southeastern Wisconsin
- Revelations: Truths Revealed
- In Search of Ancient Man: Lost in Time
Check Out Books Written by Mary Sutherland
She is also the creator of BURLINGTON NEWS one of the largest and most popular
websites on the world wide web.
http://www.burlingtonnews.net
As a 'seeker of truth' she spends her time actively researching, writing and creating new
ideas to expand the consciousness and evolution of fellow seekers.
For More Information on Mary Sutherland Click Here
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