Pre-Biblical Origins of Fallen Angels: Are They What You Expect?

Tracing the Lineage of Fallen Angels and Gods...

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Not All Halo's and Wings

Sometimes, I read so much esoteric stuff I send myself paranoid. The idea of immaterial spiritual beings watching us has roots in quite a few ancient cultures! Even while pulling incredibly stupid faces at myself in the mirror, that sudden thought of an invisible observer stops me in my tracks. I mean, can our dead family members see us goofing around like neanderthals?

Moving on, thinking bigger! Imagine Prometheus, the Holy Spirit, or fallen angels like Lucifer—these characters have all played a part in shaping our Western psyche. We all have some of it in our logic or our supetnatural inclinations. This blog post will point at the overlaps. Just ask yourself, how have people from different times and cultures described the same type of non-physical entity? Let's have a butchers at the Akkadian Igigi and the Grigori (or Watchers) from the Book of Enoch.

The Igigi and the Watchers: Exploring Ancient Mesopotamia:

These ancient beings first appear before any questionable history or theology down the park! Found in the Atra-Hasis epic, dating back around 3,800 years! That's about as old as David Attenborough's grandfather! Atra-Hasis had a very believable and pretty ordinary coracle type boat, unlike the later embelleshed developments with Noah (which is a nickname) who built a sodding-cruise-ship-sized-zoo! We are talking about pre-flood times which is roughly around 3000 years ago. People liked a story.

Originally, Igigi were overseers of nature. Not like foremen or stockroom assistants down the local warehouse, but subordinates to the higher divinities. Basically, these winged watchmen were given tasks of ‘doing the weather’ and all the mundane earth palava. It was an Akkadian explanation for what we call natural forces today. Anyway, as the story goes, they wanted to get rid of their labour, and so, seeking the same freedom their masters enjoyed, they decided to do some protesting.

The creation of us humans came as a result of a particular gods life energy: the word for the energy coincidentally translates into the word 'rib' cool isn't it? Quite right, so, anyway, we hapless hairless hominids regularly Harry Pottered the countryside around back then! We relieved the Igigi of their burdens, which ultimately diminished their status; their ambition reduced them to lesser spirits like sprites or something. At some point, we must have been sacked of our divine status. None of us can command the weather now can we? Unless our countryside domination was a play on our knowledge to use wood and stone to build kingdoms, cultivate and farm, grow institutes of learning? Really, we accept civilisation is the divine aspect here, not that Gandalf or Potter-esque magic we all like to imagine.
The Biblical Fallen Angels:

The resemblance between the pagan and the non-pagan can be seen here! It's as if the children of El and the Gods are almost related? Strange. Look, I'm not calling for talk show DNA paternity! I mean, have you noticed how most angel names end with E and L? Raphael, Gabriel or Michael for example, even Angel! Why?

El was the chief God, that’s why. Priest classes of Israel merged him with their God Yahweh lending to some theological cross pollination. Angels, like the older Igigi were seen as invisible presences, coincidence? Fair enough, Akkadian culture integrated across to the Jewish-Babylonians! It's a whopper how El is derived from Enlil, the Akkadian prime god: Angels and Igigi share historical roots!
Spooky Supernatural Ties to Culture and Belief:

We’ve all seen the horror films where a demonic force might molest a woman, like that old 70s movie ‘the Entity’—based on a true story! This kind of thing happened in William Friedkin’s Exorcist which was also inspired by true events and coincidentally, incorporated an Akkadian demon called Pazuzu!

Some of us might know those sinister unwelcoming and creepy atmospheres that resonate around buildings and stuff. Well. . . in antiquity, they would've been seen as some kind of evil spirit. All depicted as nefarious winged people, giants, and so on, to be precise, ‘invisible presences’ fits the religio-cultural standard more accurately. Since when have police arrested horned, hooved, black winged demons? Imagine the ‘unfair mythologically profiling’ accusations coming from the do-gooders!

The Watchers of the Book of Enoch:

In the story of the watchers, Azazel and Samyaza (I love these names!) convinced two hundred watchers into a pact to corrupt humanity, through sleeping with human women and teaching their following generations all kinds of forbidden knowledge—a bit like Prometheus' gift of fire to mankind. The meaning is lost on some people. This wasn't literally angels tapping ass, it's the same spiritual thing as discussed earlier. You can't expect to corrupt an already corrupt humanity by introducing vigorous sex practices, if that was the case, pornhub would be elite officers in this spiritual war!





Carnal activity in this context represents a profound unity of the fallen spirit and human. It's reflecting the Catholic idea of possession where the body can serve as a vessel. The fall of the angels is purely ignorance and self focus. Its like the ego within, but a creepy forbidden unions with a pleroma soul, messenger, lesser angel. You shouldn't be loving angels!

'So, Mum, Dad, this is Azrael, Angel of Death!’

The watchers tried to dominate us all by sabotaging the natural order and becoming lords of humanity. A bit like sabotaging your teachers class by introducing weed and truancy to the kids. These effects are still observable with our world leaders, especially Samuel. L Jackson. That Hollywood guy who advertised bread in the UK was with the two hundred at Mt Hermon!

The Limit of Human Knowledge:

Philosophy of mind is golden! Yes, it often collaborates with quantum physics and neuroscience and Intelligent Integration Theory. We shouldn't grumble, but it's hit a huge wall: none of them could tell us what a unit of consciousness even looks like, nevermind prove it as an actual thing! But we all are conscious! It's quite silly. Their own minds are 'conscious' of this wall when they ask: Maybe consciousness is an unknown fundamental force like gravity that the brain filters? It might be in the quantum field! No it's all an emanation from a higher level! Consciousness is also reading this blog. They've probably given up looking for it! They are it. We all are.

Words and Meanings Across Text:

𒀭𒄑𒉡

The above word is Igigi in Akkadian cuneiform. It also means watchers as well as referring to divine overseers.

ἐγρήγοροι

This word means egrigori in Old Greek, also meaning watchers.

עִירִין (Irīn)

This word for watchers is Aramaic because the original Book of Enoch, was written in this language. It can also mean 'those who are awake'.

In Genesis, the Hebrew term for the serpent is nachash. Dr. Michael Heiser’s research argues the serpent of the garden of eden was not a literal snake, but rather a fallen rebellious six winged fiery angel called a Seraph.

The Nephilim were the descendants of those toxic, parasitic family relationships. The fathers are incorporeal low lives with axes to grind. Nephilim means giants or fallen ones, common enthusiasts tend to indirectly hint at giants or Nephilim being present in mesopotamian tablets and art. That's more aligned with ancient alien stuff. This is a pre-flood era legend, Nephilim for me are men of renown and called giants via reputation! Let's face it Canaan was full of such men at that time, but was that because they suckled on demonic laden nipples as babies? Could the ruinous essence of a fallen angel seep into the mammary based nutrition of offspring? We could ask science or philosophy. I wouldn't.

If they're not literally ridiculously tall, then what? Not one legitimate giant skeleton has ever surfaced without a mysterious disappearence story! However, some ancient humans in particular enjoyed the unfair advantage of celestial knowledge, including metal works and weaponry. The bible says the Nephilim became men of renown. Look at Goliath, he was a giant bloke, but a more conservative scriptural measurement of 6’5” has been found. Relatively six-five was huge back then given the average man has been more like 5'6" for centuries! It begs the question: why would a smeared population differ to any other human community with noticably tall inhabitants? Even today we can see similar in the Netherlands or with the African Dinka people and these don't hold fallen angel, or Nephilim connotations because such things were biased narratives. That should put it to bed. Solved!

I think I might have noticed something here! The early bronze age began in the Middle East in 3300 to 2000 BCE, which is exactly the time Azazel taught the local warrior people near Mt Herman, (Canaanites) how to make metal weapons! If we add this to the fact that Scientists have estimated 2900 to 2500 BCE as a real date for a legitimate flood event that also ended the story! We can safely say these Canaanite people were most likely always the Nephilim! I mean, a lot of these writings are just bad mouthing the neighbours!

The Legacy of Cosmic Conflicts

John Milton's Paradise Lost is a great book and ironically, I had a copy, but lost it! Seriously. It reminds me of the evil in high places catchphrase (is it a catch phrase though?). All this mythology might have a kernel of truth about it? I believe spiritual beings (if they exist), might, to some extent, engage with us. How it works is anyone's guess.

My Conclusion...

There’s a ton of these 'fall from grace' stories from ancient themes; many hold little resemblance to how we modern folk think or see the world. That is not to say there's nothing supernatural surrounding us in the aether, the war offices, in those high places. There could still be a spiritual malignance in this world; just like that weird pretentious TV we see with the One Show, the News or Lorraine Kelly? You know those people aren't quite right. Maybe it's that dark unwelcoming threshold you don't want to walk through in that creepy house? I guess it us quite like that old meme of having a good and bad angel pursuading your head from each shoulder: it comes down to how we align ourselves. After keeping company with monsters the dark places bring comfort as opposed to fear. These stereotypes and tropes have been emulated in the likes of Darth Vader, Count Dracula, Harvey Dent, Smeagol, Macbeth, Dorian Grey, Voldemort, flawed story characters from imperfect human beings who create them. There are good people of course!