Noah Primeval (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 1)

by Brian Godawa

I have also literalized the Mesopotamian cosmology of a three-tiered universe with a solid vault in the heavens, and a flat disc earth supported on the pillars of the underworld, the realm of the dead. This appears to be the model assumed by the Biblical writers in many locations (Phil. 2:10; Job 22:14; 37:18; Psa.

104:5; 148:4; Isa. 40:22), so I thought it would be fascinating to tell that story within that worldview unknown to most modern westerners. The purpose of the Bible is not to support scientific theories

or models of the universe, but to tell the story of God through ancient writers. Those writers were people...

approached the earth, a flat disc surrounded by the waters, under which were the pillars of the earth,

Is the earth flat?

Two hundred of them landed in succession on Mount Hermon in Bashan in the northwest and he knew he was watching many years of the past moving before his eyes.

The fallen angels

These were the Bene ha Elohim, the Sons of God.

Fallen angels

The target was a pazuzu, a black monster with a double set of bat-like wings, talons for feet, and a ghastly looking doggish face.

They are enemy spies, Noah thought, scouts for the city gods, gathering information on the last of the human tribes evading the conquering will of their Lords.

His father Lamech was the priest-king of the city-state and Noah had inherited the position as a young man.

There were not many of the human tribes left, and Noah was determined to remain one of them. His desperate need fueled him. Noah’s spirit surged.

leaving so much to the mal’akim angels to do his bidding.

He walked upright and kept separate from the pollution of the city gods who came from heaven and sought to mix their blood with humanity.

the wounded pazuzu flapped its double wings struggling to navigate the air streams that helped it remain aloft on its journey to the city.

On the elevation rose the temple called Eanu. It was dedicated to the patron deity of the city,

Anu, the father god of heaven.

consisted of a huge platform mound seventy-five cubits high, built from mud brick and...

At the top of the platform terrace, raised another twenty cubits high, sat the White Temple, the holy place of the gods. Its intense whiteness, the result of gypsum p...

Next to this temple complex stood a smaller temple district called Eanna for Inanna, the goddess of sex and war, and consort of Anu. Eanu dwarfed the Eanna temple. The compound of the goddess had a different design, reflecting the lesser divine status of the female deity. The Eanna ...

Erech was one of the largest and most advanced cities of ...

It was originally settled by Unuk ben Cain, son of Cain, who also built Eridu, the oldest city n...

The original human inhabitants had arrived from the Zagros mountains to establish the first urban civilization on the plains. Those inhabitants formed a slave force that...

Each city was independent, ruled over by a god. Every year at the New Year Festival the pantheon of city gods would meet in assembly in Erech and deliberate ...

Anu arranged his pantheon after Elohim’s divine council of heavenly host. It pleased Anu to mock the Most High ...

The gods had no desire to burden themselves with the petty worries of human administrations, so they each chose a priest-king to rule...

Scribes referred to the arrival of the gods and their rule as the time “when kingshi...

But ever since then, the princes of the cities vied for prominence amongst themselves as the gods also sought distinction. The hierarchy was unstable. Burea...

The White Temple on the top of Eanu was the highest point in the city. The large platform structure imitated a holy mountain, a connection between heaven and earth. The pe...

Its four corners pointed to the four corners of the earth. The long straight limestone stairway that ascended from the base to the White Temple at top inspired the name Stairway to the Heavens by the people. The gods assembled in the White Temple for their delibera...

his sacrificial bowl in the flickering torchlight without spilling the blood offering for Anu and his consort Inanna. They always wanted blood. It was the food of the gods and they were ravenous.

handsome with his regal oblong cranium.

All the servants of the gods and their entourage practiced head binding. It

striding past lines of bird-men soldiers. These chimeras with bodies of men and heads of hawks and falcons stood at perfect attention, motionless as statues.

But the bird-men were a mere trifle compared to the apex of the gods’ creativity: the creatures which Lugalanu now approached at the doorway of the inner court.

These Nephilim were giant warriors eight to nine cubits tall, nearly as tall as the inner court doors, demigods created

by the mating of the divine Sons of God with the human daughters of men.

The Nephilim were also called the Seed of Nachash, titans of war that could not easily be defeated by man born of woman.

Crush the seed with his heel.

From the perspective of Elohim, they an evil corruption of creation.

He saw the shimmering curtains to the throne room were pulled back to display the forms of Anu and Inanna seated on gem-laden thrones.

So the fallen angels are both male and female.

Two large crossbred sphinx-like creatures that the gods called aladlammu, guarded the pair. One had the body of a bull, the other of a lion, and both the bearded heads of a human being. They were born of the gods’ magical warping of creation. The stone sculptures outside the palace depicted this pair of living breathing monstrosities. The sight of them sent a shudder through Lugalanu. Their penetrating eyes followed his every move with sentinel alertness.

The gods lounged resplendent in their royal finery. When standing, they towered well over five and a third cubits, much more than Lugalanu’s own four cubits.

Their eyes shimmered with blue lapis lazuli reptilian irises. Their tongues split lizard-like.

They are lizard people? Reptilians?

The skin of the gods appeared smooth, but Lugalanu knew that close up fine subtle serpentine scales that sparkled in the light covered them, producing a visible aura of constant radiant luminescence. Many described this radiance in terms of beryl, crystal or shining bronze. When their passions flared for good or bad, their shining would increase in brilliance, giving the impression of flashes of lightning. Because of this, they were called Shining Ones.

But he thought they would accomplish their purposes more effectively if they concentrated on defiling the human bloodline as a way to thwart Elohim’s plans for a kingly seed.

The gods of the pantheon kept hidden from Lugalanu and most humans their real identities and goals. Anu’s real name was Semjaza, and Inanna’s, Azazel. These divinities were not gods like Elohim. They were in fact the Sons of God who rebelled from Elohim’s divine council that surrounded his very throne.

Fallen angels

Elohim himself sat on the high throne, the Creator and Lord of all. Though mortal eyes could not see him, he was visible in his vice-regent, the Son of Man, The Angel of the Lord, who mediated and led God’s heavenly host. The members of the host were the Sons of God, or Bene Elohim, ten thousand times ten thousand of his Holy Ones who deliberated with the Almighty and would carry forth his judgments — except those who had fallen.

Two hundred of them had rebelled and fallen. They were called “Watchers.” By masquerading as gods of the land, they sought to usurp the throne of Elohim an...

Her vampiric fangs glistened red as she guzzled the blood offering with satisfaction. Perhaps she had not lost this battle after all.

Elohim only promised victory in the end, not in the entire process. He promised that he would be with them through the fire. This was Shafat’s fire of testing, and he shone forth with the

but they could attack him indirectly by despoiling his heaven-bound image of royal representative into an earth-bound image of debased slave.

When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions. Noah pitied them. They had lost their souls.