Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predati
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English Pages illustrations, maps Year 2001
Table of contents :
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Charts
List of Maps
Author's Note
Chapter 1: I Have Begotten a Strange Son
The Sons of God
Celestial Mafia
Fear of Fallen Angels
Chapter 2: The Search for the Source
The Antediluvian Pillars
Walked with God
The Search for the Book of Enoch
Scaliger's Discovery
Fuelled by Fallen Angels
Chapter 3: Demonic Doctrine
The Secrets of Heaven
Plight of the Watchers and Nephilim
Descendants of Noah
Chapter 4: Insane Blasphemy
Mani the Ignorant
Unorthodox Thoughts Serpents that WalkedThe Devil in Disguise
Chapter 5: Visage Like a Viper
The Testament of Amram
Wingless Angels
As Tall as Trees
Shining Like the Sun
Eyes Like Burning Lamps
As White as Wool
Children of the Angels
The Shamanic Solution
The Face of a Watcher
Chapter 6: When Giants Walked the Earth
Races of Giants
King Og of Bashan
Source of the Nephilim
A Goat for Azazel
To Act Like Angels
Chapter 7: Angels in Exile
By the Rivers of Babylon
The Jews in Exile
A Man of Many Faces
On the Road with Raphael
Iranian Influence
The Fall of the Magi
The Tower of Daniel The Angels of ZoroasterTruth and the Lie
Laurence's Lucky Hunch
Chapter 8: Terrible Lie
The Law of the Daevas
Chapter 9: Born of the Demon Race
The Miraculous Birth of Zal
Compassion of the Simurgh
The Glorious House of Sam and Nariman
The Divine Glory
Chapter 10: On the Edge of Death
The Divine Physician
The Drug of Immortality
The Noble Vulture
Excarnation
Rites of the Vulture
Çatal Hüyük
Chapter 11: In the Realm of the Immortals
The Iranian Expanse
Mountain of the Madai
Among the Angels
Chapter 12: Eastward, in Eden
The Journey to Heaven
Heaven --
Fact or Fantasy? The Rivers of ParadiseThe Place of Descent
The Cradle of Mankind
Descendants of Giants
Chapter 13: The Peacock Angel
The Angelicans
Roots of the Yezidi
The Shrine of Sheikh Adi
The Black Serpent
Power of the Evil Eye
The Jam Begins
The Greatest Angel
Descendants of Noah
Nomadic Rainmakers
The Secret Cavern
Chapter 14: Children of the Djinn
In the Shadow of Sultan Sahâk
Descendants of the Dragon King
The Utopian City of Tigranakert
Yaresan Creation Myths
Birds of the Angels
Born of the Djinn
Fear of Changelings
Chapter 15: Where Heaven and Earth Meet
The Fall of Kharsag Had O 'Brien Been Correct?In Search of Kharsag
The Hero Gilgamesh
The Argument for Mount Hermon
The Search for Dilmun
Source of the Waters
The Red-headed Tribesmen
Chapter 16: Sleeping with Gods
Riddle of the Sacred Marriage
Crime of the Imdugud
Stela of the Vultures
Bodies of Birds
The Descent of Ishtar
The Search for Ut-napishtim
The Gift of Immortality
Domain of the Edimmu
As Old as Methuselah
Preserver of the Seed
Chapter 17: In the Footsteps of the Watchers
The Neolithic Explosion
Uncertain Forces
The Black Glass of Lake Van
Cave of the Angels
Wings of Shamans