Ancient Gods by Jim Willis

Author:Jim Willis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2016-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

The story of David versus Goliath is a well-known biblical tale, but could Goliath’s stature have been real? Was he one of the Nephilim?

The Good Guys

While all this was going on, according to the Book of Enoch, the Watchers were being watched. There was another group of angels with names like Uriel, Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel. Perhaps these were sent out from the homeland to reign in the ones who had got out of hand. Who knows? Enoch doesn’t say. But there must have been quite a stir back at headquarters.

Whatever happened, there is no denying it had impressive results. Right after the deluge, Göbekli Tepe was built. People discovered the arts of agriculture. Somebody organized them into what we now call the Neolithic Revolution which marked the beginning of our civilization. This led to writing and all sorts of civilized stuff. The world has never been the same.

In Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods, he envisions these Watchers as members of an advanced civilization which, after the drastic floods of the Younger Dryas Ice Age event destroyed their homeland, set out to rebuild. The Egyptian Edfu texts tell the story. They settled in places with which they were already familiar with because of the cultural missionary work of their previous encounters. They went to Egypt, to Turkey and Göbekli Tepe, to Lebanon at Baalbek, and eventually to Central and South America.

Because Göbekli Tepe is so central to the flood story, located as it is within shouting distance of the birthplace of Judaism, Abraham’s hometown of Ur of the Chaldees, and because it sits on the outskirts of the traditional location of the Garden of Eden, it makes us wonder, when we read the old, familiar stories of the Bible, whether Enoch, the Jewish patriarch, encountered real men after all, not gods, and that the myths have some flesh on them. The tales of that encounter grew, no doubt, with the telling and retelling after thousands of years. But when we read them with this insight, at the very least it breathes life into them.

Cultural missionaries who sound like a kind of Peace Corps, development programs to assist urban planning, interracial sex, revolutions, agriculture, and even a little magic. All in all, it makes the past sound suspiciously like the present, doesn’t it?

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