The Watchers: What Was Here Before the Flood, and Why It Had to Go

Two hundred angels descended to the summit of Mount Hermon. They swore themselves to each other in a pact of transgression. They took human wives. They fathered a race of giants. And they taught humanity the technological foundations of civilization — metallurgy, weapon-making, astronomy, pharmacology, the reading of stars.

This is the Book of Enoch. Quoted in the New Testament. Preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Still scripture for forty-five million Ethiopian Orthodox Christians today. Excluded from most Bibles between 100 and 400 CE.

This week: the Watchers. The Nephilim. The Sumerian Apkallu — seven divine sages sent from the sea to teach humanity writing, mathematics, and law. Egypt's Thoth. Mesoamerica's Quetzalcoatl. India's Saptarishi. ...