More on Enoch's Watchers
Oct. 11th, 2006 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hobgoblinnFascinating stuff. I'm sure Joss could not have had this in mind, but it's interesting reading this stuff in light of Buffyverse canon. Here's some highlights from Wikipedia (from link "Watchers" in the discussion of Book of Enoch-- note this is taken verbatim from Wikipedia entry:)
"The Grigori are a group of fallen angels told of in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim. Also known as "Watchers" (from Greek egrḗgoroi), the Grigori appear in the books of Enoch and Jubilees....
In Enoch, the Watchers are angels apparently dispatched to Earth simply to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for the human women they see, and at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, they defect en masse to marry and live among the humans. The children produced by these relationships are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity. Samyaza, Azazel, and the others become corrupt, and teach their human hosts to make metal weapons, cosmetics, and other necessities of civilization that had been kept secret. But the humans are dying and cry to the heavens for help. God sends the Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but sends Uriel to warn Noah so as not to eradicate the human race. The Grigori are bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgement Day. (See Jude 1:6)...
The Book of Jubilees adds further details about the Watchers. While "Watchers" or "Sentinels" are mentioned alongside the "holy ones" in the Book of Daniel, it is doubtful they have any connection to the Grigori. The angels were fairly popular in Jewish folklore, which often describes them as looking like large human beings that never sleep and remain forever silent. While there are good and bad Watchers, most stories revolve around the evil ones that fell from grace when they took "the daughters of man" as their mates."
I dunno. I think it's cool. They're kind of like Prometheus in a way, bringing fire (knowledge) to mankind. And it's interesting how much of their sin revolves around their getting sexually involved with mortals. No hangups here, no siree.
But possibly some plot bunnies. And some research fodder for anyone who was trying to trace the history of the Council all the way back. Feel free to comment or play with the ideas if you like. I'll be too busy trying to stay warm this weekend, myself.
Hob
"The Grigori are a group of fallen angels told of in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim. Also known as "Watchers" (from Greek egrḗgoroi), the Grigori appear in the books of Enoch and Jubilees....
In Enoch, the Watchers are angels apparently dispatched to Earth simply to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for the human women they see, and at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, they defect en masse to marry and live among the humans. The children produced by these relationships are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity. Samyaza, Azazel, and the others become corrupt, and teach their human hosts to make metal weapons, cosmetics, and other necessities of civilization that had been kept secret. But the humans are dying and cry to the heavens for help. God sends the Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but sends Uriel to warn Noah so as not to eradicate the human race. The Grigori are bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgement Day. (See Jude 1:6)...
The Book of Jubilees adds further details about the Watchers. While "Watchers" or "Sentinels" are mentioned alongside the "holy ones" in the Book of Daniel, it is doubtful they have any connection to the Grigori. The angels were fairly popular in Jewish folklore, which often describes them as looking like large human beings that never sleep and remain forever silent. While there are good and bad Watchers, most stories revolve around the evil ones that fell from grace when they took "the daughters of man" as their mates."
I dunno. I think it's cool. They're kind of like Prometheus in a way, bringing fire (knowledge) to mankind. And it's interesting how much of their sin revolves around their getting sexually involved with mortals. No hangups here, no siree.
But possibly some plot bunnies. And some research fodder for anyone who was trying to trace the history of the Council all the way back. Feel free to comment or play with the ideas if you like. I'll be too busy trying to stay warm this weekend, myself.
Hob
