Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch was an ancient apocryphal Biblical book. It expanded upon passages in the Book of Genesis regarding angels reproducing with humans and giving rise to a race of "giants". Along with the Book of Noah, it described the early history of the Mal'akh on Earth.

In the Book, a group of two-hundred interventionist Anakim rebelled against their people and, led by Azazel or Shemjaza, descended from "the high place" to live among humanity. They taught the people their knowledge and reproduced with them, but their children were the Nephilim, monstrous giants with unstoppable bloodthirst. To stop this, the Anakim fought, captured, and exiled the rebels. A variant of the same legend was described in Arabic myth of Eblis and the djinn.

Deemed to be too old to be relevant, the Book of Enoch was removed from the Bible in the 300s and suppressed for centuries. Early translations of the Book were included in the Liber Sanguisugarum. In 1773 it was reintroduced to the west from Ethiopia; after finally being translated into English in 1821, it inspired a wave of gothic horror literature. (PROSE: The Book of the War)