What is human history? It is a record of the
victors, of power and purpose. Evolution, the agricultural
revolution, and so on, most are at least vaguely
familiar with these concepts. But what if it is not quite so simple? What if the stories of the ancients, tales of gods and angels,
of giants and disasters, are more literal than they
might seem upon first glance? Look closer, and an alternative
history of the human race may be revealed. One which totally upends
conventional knowledge and the history of power. This is an alternative history which has been censored
out of human understanding, mostly forgotten or ignored. Until now. Before we continue, we'd
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now known as the West Bank, a group of Bedouin teenagers were tending to their sheep and goats near the ancient settlement of Qumran. To pass the time, monotonous as it was, they threw around the rocks they found littered across the rugged desert terrain. When one such rock was thrown into the dark expanse of a cave, the teenagers were surprised
to hear a loud shattering noise echoing from within. Exploring, they found a
collection of large clay jars, one of which had been broken. Though they did not
know it at that moment, these teenagers had made
a historic discovery. Inside the jars were a
series of ancient scrolls. In the years that followed this discovery, archaeologists, historians,
and treasure hunters would find additional scroll fragments in 10 other caves in the area, their composition forming
some 800 to 900 manuscripts collectively known as
the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among these manuscripts
were large portions of a mysterious
non-canonical religious text which had long been forgotten. It was called the Book of Enoch. In its entirety, The Book of
Enoch is made up of five books, The Book of Watchers, Book of Parables, The Astronomical Book, The Dream Visions, and The Epistles of Enoch,
containing some 100 chapters. These chapters tell the
story of the 7th patriarch in the Book of Genesis, Enoch, the father of Methuselah
and grandfather of Noah, the same Noah in the
biblical story of Noah's Ark. Yet, this was not the
biblical story of Noah's Ark. In fact, the Book of Enoch provides an entirely different
recounting of the events leading up to the Great
Flood of Noah's time, that is a completely
different doctrinal history. It tells a story of the Watchers, explained in biblical
terms to be fallen angels, sent to earth to watch over humans at some undefined and
ancient point in time. Unfortunately, far from
merely watching humans, these Watchers became
infatuated by human women, and in short order, began to engage in depraved sexual acts with them. The Book of Enoch tells
of the children born through this interbreeding
between Watchers and humans, called the Nephilim. These Nephilim were as described, "giants and savages that
endangered and pillaged humanity," or, said another way,
"supernatural, man-eating giants." Angered with what the Watchers had done, those described as gods chained them in a subterranean
prison deep within the earth. Enoch became the go-between
gods and imprisoned Watchers. The Book describes Enoch's
journeys between heaven and earth in his role as an intermediary, how he flew with the angels and
saw the rivers and mountains and the very ends of the earth from above. Yet, despite Enoch's intervention, the gods decided the atrocity
that the earth had become must be punished. Of course, the punishment
would be a great flood. This flood would destroy the Nephilim and cement the Watchers in their prison. Beforehand, however, Enoch would be whisked away
to heaven in a fiery chariot. Interestingly, the Book of Genesis, which tells of the Great
Flood in Abrahamic traditions, references the Nephilim in Chapter six, describing "heroes that were
of old, warriors of renown." This is not the only
place in biblical canon which the Nephilim appear. In Numbers 13:32-33, the Israelites visit a
land inhabited by Nephilim, who are so large they make the Israelites
look like grasshoppers. Of course, many things in the Bible are seen in modern times as allegorical, that is, more philosophical
myth than historical record. There is archaeological
evidence of a great flood in the earth's past, one, incidentally, also
spoken about in countless religious and cultural
traditions across the world. Had beings like Nephilim
giants actually existed? Surely there would be similar evidence. What if there is? In our 30-minute documentary
video about giants, which we linked in the
description and comments, we highlighted dozens of
stories of enormous skeletons unearthed across North America, together with many newspaper articles from the late 19th and early 20th century suggesting that ancient
giants were indeed real and coexisted with early humans. This is not a phenomenon
confined to the United States. Similarly, enormous
skeletons have been found in the Amazon Rainforest,
Africa, and elsewhere. In fact, stories of giants permeate human history and tradition. The famed explorer Marco Polo once wrote of a race of
giants in Zanzibar who were "so strong they can carry as
many as four ordinary men," while the people of
modern-day Tangier, Morocco once claimed their city's founder
was a giant named Antaeus. According to Irish myth, the
so-called Giant's Causeway off the northeast coast of Ireland, an astonishing 40,000
interlocking columns of rock, was built by the Irish giant Finn McCool so that he could walk
across the sea to Scotland to fight another giant. Further, stories of
giants dot Norse legends and ancient Greek mythology. Perhaps if giants did exist, as these records across
countless cultures suggest, then the Book of Enoch is less allegorical than it might originally appear, less fantastical myth and more
grounded in actual history. It is interesting to
note that for centuries, the Book of Enoch was an important part of both Christian and
Jewish religious traditions. Many, if not most, sects
accepted the book as scripture. Further, some have even suggested that the Book of Enoch was the inspiration for the Book of Genesis, due to their many parallels
and overlapping stories. The question is thus, what happened? Why is the Book of Enoch
not part of the Bible? To answer this, we must go
back to the early centuries after the death of Jesus Christ. Far from the rigid canon
of 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books that
we know as the Bible today. Originally, there were numerous
gospels and religious texts which made up the broad
spectrum of Christian tradition. As the Christian religion
grew after the death of Jesus, the burgeoning Christian
church needed to know which texts should be read and followed, which teachings should be applied, which texts would be deemed as acceptable and divinely inspired. The church needed, out of diversity, to create uniformity, they
needed an official canon. In a story popularized in modern times by Dan Brown's seminal
work The Da Vinci Code, this canonization is
remembered as happening, somewhat nefariously,
at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century. There, according to the
story, Emperor Constantine and other high-ranking church authorities shaped the Christian canon to conform to their own secret agenda. Unfortunately, this is
not historically accurate. The Council of Nicea did not determine the
official Christian canon. Don't blame Dan Brown, the famed philosopher Voltaire, made a similar assertion in the 1700s. But while the story may
not be factually accurate, it is accurate in a sense. High ranking members of the church certainly did pick and
choose what to include in the official biblical canon, they argued, pulled strings, cast their opponents as heretics, and almost certainly sought
to expand their own power. It just didn't take place
at a single council, but rather, as a much longer process between the 1st and 4th centuries. It is generally understood that by the end of the 4th century, the process was complete and
the Bible was officially set without the Book of Enoch. How could something as influential, if not vital, as the Book
of Enoch be left out? To answer this question, one
might examine other gospels which were also censored
from the final product. Consider the Gospel of Peter, a fragment of which was
found in Egypt in 1886, which tells the long-missing story of a resurrected Jesus leaving his tomb and features two gigantic angels and a floating cross that talks "And they heard a voice
from the heavens, saying, "'Thou hast preached to them that sleep.' "And a response was heard
from the cross, 'Yea.'" Or, consider the Gospel of Mary, that notorious work in
which Mary Magdalene is named not only as
one of Jesus' disciples, but his favorite one,
perhaps even his wife. Within this gospel,
the disciple Peter asks why he and the other disciples should listen to Mary, a woman,
to which Matthew responds, "If the Savior made her worthy, "who are you then, for your
part, to cast her aside? "Surely the Savior knows her full well. "That is why he has
loved her more than us." Like the Book of Enoch, these
gospels tell extraordinary and history-challenging stories. Perhaps then, it should be no surprise that these texts were censored out by early power brokers of
the official Christian canon. It stands to reason that the Book of Enoch may have been totally forgotten if not for its survival
in small orthodox sects of Ethiopian Jews. In fact, the only pre-modern
version of the text was written in Ge'ez, an
ancient African language. It was this version
which Richard Laurence, the Archbishop of Cashel, used in 1821 to produce the first ever
English translation of the book, the version used to inform
study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Curiously, though the Book of Enoch was omitted from the
established Christian canon and subsequently forgotten in all but the most obscure
corners of religious tradition and theological study, the Bible does contain
numerous references to it. There are references to the Nephilim in Genesis and Numbers. Genesis also contains
an extensive recounting of Enoch's lineage. The Book of Hebrews describes how "God had taken Enoch away," seemingly a reference to
his being taken to heaven via fiery chariot before the Great Flood. Jude, meanwhile, contains
an entire paragraph transcribed almost
word-for-word from Enoch, suggesting that the Book may, in fact, have served as an early inspiration for canonical biblical texts. Further, Corinthians 11:5-6 contains instructions from St. Paul that women should cover
their heads while in church. This, seemingly a direct reference to the fact that the
Watchers in the Book of Enoch were attracted to women
with long flowing hair. This is a practice which remains in Roman Catholicism
and Islam to this day. Though it was censored, even forgotten, the Book of Enoch never truly disappeared. There is something deeper
behind the Book of Enoch and its incredible stories, something which goes beyond simply whether or not it is part
of the Christian canon. It has been pointed out that Enoch, the 7th patriarch of the Bible, seems to reflect the 7th
antediluvian king, Enmenduranna, in Babylonian tradition. The ancient Greeks believed Enoch to be the same as the god Hermes, while ancient Egyptians
had someone similar in their own tradition. The examples could continue,
and so it must be asked, why does Enoch, no matter his name, keep appearing in the
traditions of the ancients? The answer may go back
further than the Greeks, Egyptians, or even the Babylonians, back to the ancient Sumerians. According to Sumerian texts, earth was visited by a
group of supernatural beings sometime in the distant past. These visitors are described
in Sumerian tradition in a way that is eerily similar to descriptions of the
Watchers in the Book of Enoch. Instead of Watchers, however, Sumerians called these
beings the Anunnaki, which literally means "those
who came from the heavens". They were gods, to the Sumerians to modern thinkers like Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Däniken, they were an ancient race
of aliens who came to earth. Interestingly, Sumerian texts tell stories of these Anunnaki, much like the Watchers, beginning to interbreed with human beings, creating an entirely new
species in the process, reflecting the creation of the Nephilim. Like the gods of the Book of Enoch, the Anunnaki became angered
with the condition of the earth and brought about a great flood. Is it possible the Book of Enoch, as well as other related traditions, are simply retelling
the older Sumerian story of the Anunnaki? Consider the Agricultural Revolution, which began around 10,000 BCE, during which time human
beings transitioned from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement. According to historical
record, as early as 9500 BCE, in what is now modern Kurdistan, barley, wheat, and rye
were being cultivated, oats, peas, and lentils were being grown, while goats and sheep were domesticated. Some 500 years after that, copper and lead smelting were
taking place in the region, alongside weaving and pottery making. Additionally, this ancient Kurdish culture was the first to develop a script, standing as one of humanity's
earliest literate societies. Some have asked how human beings could have made this jump so fast. Interestingly, the Kurdish people claim to be the descendants
of the "Children of the Djinn" the Children of Spirits. Is this an ancient cultural reference to the procreation between
Anunnaki and human women? According to the Sumerians, it was the Anunnaki who
brought advanced knowledge and technology to human beings, lending a helping hand, as it were, to the progression of human civilization. Many have suggested that this explains seemingly impossible monuments like the pyramids of Giza or Teotihuacan, those ancient monuments of "extraordinary sophistication "which is completely
unexplained by the cultural "and social circumstances
of historical record." Perhaps this also
explains how human beings were able to transition from
nomadic hunter-gatherers to sophisticated civilizations in a historically
insignificant amount of time. Incredibly, the Book of Enoch describes an almost identical
process taking place, with the Watchers mirroring the Anunnaki in providing humans with advanced
knowledge and technology. They teach humans metallurgy and mining, science and medicine,
how to read and write, and how to read the stars, they teach humans to wear
cosmetics and make jewelry and reveal the secrets of the art of war. The Book of Enoch 8:1-3a reads, "And Azazel taught men to make swords "and knives and shields and breastplates "and made known to them
the metals [of the earth] "and the art of working them
and bracelets and ornaments "and the use of antimony and
the beautifying of the eyelids "and all kinds of costly stones
and all colouring tinctures. "And there arose much godlessness "and they committed fornication
and they were led astray "and became corrupt in all their ways." Was the Book of Enoch, in this way, merely reflecting and retelling
the story of the Anunnaki? It is interesting that
the most common example given of something "completely
unexplained by the cultural "and social circumstances
of historical record," that is to say, something the Anunnaki must surely have helped
ancient humans with, are the Egyptian pyramids. According to the ancient
Arabian historian Al-Maqrizi, these pyramids were built
by a king named Saurid, who lived before the Great Flood. Incidentally, Saurid translated
into Hebrew, is Enoch. Consider elsewhere in the Book of Enoch, in a chapter in which
Enoch bears witness to "the secrets of the lightnings" and "the secrets of the thunder." Some have suggested,
this chapter is meant to illuminate the riddles of
energy and electricity. Again, this relates
directly to the Anunnaki, who many believe have been
trying to reveal similar secrets to human beings through
crop circles for some time. In our latest video, called
Crop Circles Contain Blueprints for Free Energy Devices, we talked how in only
the past few decades, crop circles have
appeared across the world detailing complex mathematical equations, magnetic diagrams and
motors, mechanical routers and the field lines of
an electrical charge, the work, according to
some, of the Anunnaki. In fact, consider Enoch's description of his journey to meet the gods while keeping in mind the UFO sightings which often accompany and
compliment these crop circles, "I was taken to a kind of
floating palace," Enoch said. "It was huge, like carved glass. "The floor had glass plates. "Through the floor you could see the stars "we were crossing." With this in mind, one might wonder if the 'fiery chariot'
which took Enoch away before the Great Flood was not
in fact, an alien spacecraft. It may seem hard to believe that stories as mind-blowing as these, of Watchers and Anunnaki
and Nephilim giants, stories which permeated ancient cultures for thousands of years,
should be largely forgotten, the Sumerians erased from the pantheon of
ancient civilizations, the Book of Enoch censored
from biblical canon. However, given the way these stories fundamentally reshape human history and redefine what human beings are their exclusion is perhaps no surprise. Yet, maybe these stories were
not, in fact, totally erased. Consider the well-known
biblical story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Read it not literally,
nor philosophically, but as an allegory. Read it metaphorically. God creates Adam to watch over the earth, much as the gods send the Watchers to do in the Book of Enoch. From Adam's rib, god creates Eve, Adam and Eve procreate,
representing the interbreeding between the Watchers and human females. Adam and Eve are told they can eat anything they
want in the Garden of Eden, except fruit from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. Of course, they do eat
from the tree of knowledge, representative of the Watchers
bringing advanced technology and knowledge to human beings, which perhaps they were not mentally evolved enough to handle. Just as eating from the tree of knowledge provided Adam and Eve
with the knowledge of God, so too did the book of Enoch
describe how the Watchers "revealed the eternal secrets "which were preserved for heaven, "which men were striving to learn." Reading the story of
Adam and Eve this way, it is easy to see the parallels between it and the Book of Enoch. And perhaps that is just the point. Perhaps the people who wrote
the story of Adam and Eve were simply retelling the
stories in the Book of Enoch in their own way, retelling the Sumerian
story of the Anunnaki, as so many across religions
and cultures had before them, inserting this crucial piece
of human history allegorically into their own religious canon, so that these ancient records
could continue to exist. What is human history? Is it that which is understood through officially
sanctioned history books? Or is it something deeper,
something more incredible, if, perhaps, forgotten? Maybe the answer has been
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha
There is also the Book of Giants
What an awesome watch. I remember from a discovery channel show as a kid that the Ethiopian sect of Christianity’s bible includes this book, with maybe a few others. Nice link man!
I haven’t watched the video yet but saying that Enoch was banned from the Bible is misinformation and quite frankly a bit melodramatic. There were very specific criteria that went into deciding which writings were canonized into the scriptures we have today. For example, if a writings origins could not be verified then it wasn’t included in the canon or if writings were written under a pseudonym or were anonymous, then they weren’t included in the canon. With the book of Enoch I think the issue was that by the time it was found there was no way to verify its authenticity. It’s also believed that 1 Enoch is the only one that actually might be authentic and that the other two books of Enoch were much later additions. But there’s just no way to verify any of this because that information has been lost to antiquity. So to say it was banned might sound more exciting but it would be more accurate to just say it was “left out” of the canon. As a matter of fact Jesus himself actually quotes a passage from 1 Enoch in the book of Matthew I believe so it’s obviously wasn’t considered heretical.
Also a good read is The Book of Adam and Eve. Tells the story of Adam and Eve once they’ve been cast out of Eden.
Ive got to read it asap. It tells how we were enginrered to be slaves by the sumarians. And they fought over how smart and indipendant to make us? Ive got to read this?
By the way, these are all in any decent university library.
Book of Enoch is a God damn action novel.
Book of Chungus is a good one