GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 1:07 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
The Nephilim /ˈnɛfɪˌlɪm/ (Hebrew: נְפִילִים, nefilim) were the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" before the Deluge, according to Genesis 6:1–4 of the Bible.
A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in Ezekiel 32:27.[1][2]
When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.
— Genesis 6:1–4, New Revised Standard Version
Christian and Jewish tradition equate that to the children of Seth and the children of Cain. There exists a minority of people who believed the sons of God implied angels, and the apocryphal book of Enoch states this. But that is not how tradition interprets it.
It makes more sense to understand it in the orthodox sense. The giants are an admixture of two different kinds of humans.
The character Grendel is based on this as well. Most not Christian/Jewish accounts of them are of a similar nature. The Indians speak of them kidnapping women, for instance. The Apache hate them more than even the Hebrews did.
Other commonalities are that they eat humans. They are violent. Interactions with them bring about mutual feelings of animosity (mark of Cain analog).
If they still exist, we probably need to kill them.
