Website design By BotEap.comPastors fight, theologians fight, and rabbis debate the Biblical N’filim. This antediluvian race, an offspring of giants sired by fallen angels with mortal women, is first introduced in Genesis 6:1-4. It is their existence that caused the flood and their existence why God commanded the Hebrews to end the extinction of the race under Moses and Joshua. This angelic/divine mongrel race is mentioned in all ancient civilizations and appears to be the precursor to most polytheistic mythology and vampire lore. Whether you believe in the Judeo-Christian N’filim or not, modern society is still drenched in their tales, creating heated theological debates and the most exciting entities in supernatural horror movies. As we explore the N’filim, let’s look first at their Jewish sources, then at their vampiric characteristics, and finally at their connection to ancient polytheistic religions.

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Website design By BotEap.comAccording Genesis and the book of enochSometime between 460 and 1,065 years after the creation of man, 200 angels descended to earth and were married. These angels taught their wives knowledge that God did not want humans to possess: the art of arming and metallurgy; the art of enchantments and witchcraft; the art of cosmetology; the art of abortion; and the art of astrology, the signs and the division of roots. Humanity became corrupted by abusing knowledge for selfish gain and hurting everyone who got in their way.

Website design By BotEap.comThe descendants of these angels and women, called N’filim, were giants on earth and turned to humans for sustenance and slavery. Tea Book of Jasher and the book of enoch tells tales of N’filim who drink the blood of mortals and feast on their corpses. They then began mating with animals to create N’filim entities with a mixture of human and animal body parts. Yet humanity, the race chosen to rule the earth and all it contained, had become prey and was hunted and ruled by a half-breed race stronger than they were. To save humanity, God chose Noah, a man without blemish, with his family and drowned the N’filim and thus the corruptions that plagued his creation.

Website design By BotEap.comAlso, the book of enoch explains that when the mortal portion of a N’filim became extinct, their spirit was trapped here on earth awaiting trial with the rest of humanity. The ghosts and spirits of him were noted to be of a cloud-like substance and were known to possess and torment humans. These evil spirits and demons were not swept away by the flood and Jesus Christ exorcised them numerous times in the New Testament.

Website design By BotEap.comWere all N’filim evil? In Genesis 6:4 says: The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God were united with the daughters of men and begat children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. It seems that some N’filim were heroes, and with their Biblical presence after the flood, we must assume that God spared a few for their justice or for other reasons. Some Jewish myths claim that Noah forgave the N’filim Og who promised to be his slave forever. Others point out that Japheth’s wife (Jafeth is Noah’s eldest son) may have been a N’filim since two of Japheth’s sons, Gog and Magog, are later documented in the Bible as being of the N’filim lineage.

Website design By BotEap.comFor whatever reason, some N’filim survived the flood. During the days of Abraham, the giants are recorded as having warred among themselves. In Deuteronomy 3:11 says that: Of the remnant of the Rephaim only Og, king of Bashan remained (Rapha means giant, the Rephaim are biblically recorded as the descendants of the N’filim)…Og was defeated and killed by Moses. , but other Rapha (giant) tribes still blocked the way to the Promised Land of Israel. The Bible mentions Goliath and various tribes as descendants of the N’filim, including the Anakim, Amorites, and Assyrians.

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Website design By BotEap.comBoth historical and biblical records tell that humans worshiped a pantheon of gods made up of N’filim and fallen angels. Most polytheistic religions required human sacrifice and drank the blood of the sacrifice. Assyrians, descendants of N’filim, were observed to drink the blood of conquered nations while laying siege to their upcoming conquest for intimidation purposes. like the hebrews book of enoch it includes the records of semi-divine entities drinking pure blood from a human, much like many other ancient religions. The Egyptian Sekhmet, the Greek Hecate, the Indian Kali, and the Babylonian Lilitu demons are just a few examples.

Website design By BotEap.comIn Jewish texts, the post-flood N’filim race has been described as having abnormally long lives, growing to heights of nine to twelve feet and having skin much paler than mortals. Historically, these N’filim tribes were known to drink blood from skulls, skin people alive, and sacrifice babies to demons/gods. Thus, we are introduced to an unnaturally long-lived, pale, paranormal tribe known to drink blood recorded in both ancient civilizations and religious texts.

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Website design By BotEap.comDid N’filim’s Hebrew tales create the rest of the world’s mythologies? There is a good chance of this. Scholars acknowledge that the Greek gods closely resemble what the Hebrews would call fallen angels who live among mortal women and have children by them. We still hear stories of Hercules, Medusa, Thor, and other half-divine heroes and villains surviving a great flood. In Norse mythology, great battles were fought between the gods (fallen angels) and cannibalistic giants before a flood wiped out the giants so humans could repopulate the earth. The Celtic mythology of the Tuatha de Danaan continues this trend and has documentation of their ancestors originally coming from the Middle East, where the stories of the N’filim were first recorded. In almost all ancient religions there are stories of divine or angel-like creatures mating with humans and/or animals to create their god-kings or a superior semi-divine race worshiped by humans. Also, all ancient religions have evil spirits and demons that torment and possess humans and provide methods of protection against these entities. The Hebrews are the only ones to give a complete explanation of all documented supernatural entities in the ancient world.

Website design By BotEap.comIn conclusion, all ancient civilizations and religions speak of these N’filim and their habits of drinking and possessing blood. Each ancient and modern culture provides its own knowledge of how to ward off N’filim entities: demons, spirits, ghosts, and vampires. Even today, accounts and testimonies of N’filim entities continue to be recorded. The N’filim seem to still roam the world among us, either in reality or in legend.