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THE ELIOUD TOME
The Watcher's
Book of Books

An Epic tale by
David DeLane Snow
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Stephine Carter,  a co-worker who enjoyed a reading of Jacob's Catharsis manuscript; told me to join a writer's group online.  I finally stumbled on the site called "wattpad", she mentioned; and thought I would "self-publish" some portions of my Epic, which I've re-titled: THE ELIOUD TOME: The Watcher's Book of Books (Forbidden Tales from The Nephilim Age).


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Zanell


Zanell

   Ara-a-non visited a woman of Slavath one late night.  She was the wife of a merchant.  He was away gathering supplies at Kathos.  Aranon had seduced Zanell with flattering words.  Later she secretly invited him for more than words when her husband went away again.
   At night she opened the doorway of her tent for him wearing only thin veils as ...  


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The Book of Giants

The Book of Giants[7] is an expansive narrative of the biblical story of the birth of giants in Genesis 6.1-4. In this story, the giants came into being when the sons of God had sexual intercourse with mortal women who birthed a hybrid race of giants. These giants partook in destructive and immoral actions, which devastated humanity. When Enoch heard of this, he was distressed and asked God to bring judgement to the giants. In his mercy, God chose to give the giants a chance to repent by transmitting dreams to two giants named Ohyah and Hahyah who relayed the dreams to an assembly of giants. The giants were perplexed with the dreams, so they sent a giant named Mahaway to Enoch’s abode. Enoch interceded on their behalf and gave tablets to the giants with the meaning of the dreams and God’s future judgement. When the giants heard this, many chose to act in defiance to God. While the Qumran fragments were incomplete at this point, the Manichaean fragments tell of the hosts of God subduing the race of giants through battle.
Most of the content in the Book of Giants is derived out of 1 Enoch 7:3-6 . This passage sheds light on the characterizing features of the Giants. It reveals that the Giants were born of the sons of god and daughters of man. The giants began to devour the works of men and went on to kill and consume them. They also sinned against the birds and beast of the sky, creeping things and the fish of the sea. It also mentions that the giants devoured the flesh of one another and they drank the blood. [7] This act of drinking blood would have horrified the people.[8]There is further evidence of this in Leviticus 17:10-16. In this passage there are strict rules regarding the blood of the animal. In verse 10 and 11, it says, “I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of the creature is in the blood.”
The text relates how some giants, named Ohya, Hahya and Mahway, sons of the fallen angels, have some dreams that foresee the biblical Flood.[9] A brief mention of one of these giants, "Ohya", is found in the Babylonian Talmud (Nidah, Ch 9), where it is said "סיחון ועוג אחי הוו דאמר מר סיחון ועוג בני אחיה בר שמחזאי הוו" ("Sihon and Og [from the Book of Numbers] were brothers, as they were the sons of Ohia the son of Samhazai [one of the leaders of the fallen angels in the Book of Enoch])". The version found at Qumran also describes the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh and the monster Humbaba.
THE SCHOLARLY RESOURCE and original... 
THE ELIOUD SCRIPTURES 
(Translating my text)

  Summary of the Giant's Book: ""... the sons of God had sexual intercourse with mortal women who birthed a hybrid race of giants. These giants partook in destructive and immoral actions, which devastated humanity. When Enoch heard of this, he was distressed and asked God to bring judgement to the giants. In his mercy, God chose to give the giants a chance to repent by transmitting dreams to two giants named Ohyah and Hahyah who relayed the dreams to an assembly of giants. The giants were perplexed with the dreams, so they sent a giant named Mahaway to Enoch’s abode. Enoch interceded on their behalf and gave tablets to the giants with the meaning of the dreams and God’s future judgement. When the giants heard this, many chose to act in defiance to God... the hosts of God subduing the race of giants through battle.
...The giants began to devour the works of men and went on to kill and consume them. They also sinned against the birds and beast of the sky, creeping things and the fish of the sea. It also mentions that the giants devoured the flesh of one another and they drank the blood. This act of drinking blood would have horrified the people. ..[[ Leviticus 17:10-16]]...says, “I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood and I will cut them off from the people. For the life of the creature is in the blood.”
    Ohya, Hahya and Mahway, sons of the fallen angels, have some dreams that foresee the biblical Flood.  A brief mention of one of these giants, "Ohya", is found in the Babylonian Talmud (Nidah, Ch 9), where it is said "סיחון ועוג אחי הוו דאמר מר סיחון ועוג בני אחיה בר שמחזאי הוו" ("Sihon and Og [from the Book of Numbers] were brothers, as they were the sons of Ohia the son of Samhazai [one of the leaders of the fallen angels in the Book of Enoch])". The version found at Qumran also describes the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh and the monster Humbaba.
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THRIYEL: The Elioud Scriptures

The Book of Jubilee, The Elioud, The Book of Giants, The Gibborim. Resources for my Epic Book of Books..




I'm thinking of a new working title:


 "....After the flood, humans ceased to be immortal and the gods distanced themselves.[1]... "








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The Elioud Scriptures

The Elioud Scriptures sounds like a wonderful "New" title for my Watchers book.  The Elioud were the antediluvian children of the Nephilim mentioned in the Jewish Jubileeian Book; which actually fits in better with the collected works I'm devising.



".....about the Elioud only in passing (as a long-lived ancestor of Noah),[3] and while it notes that Nephilim had children, it does not assign a name to them.[4] Another canonical Bible passage concerning a giant at Gath and his children is sometimes alleged to refer to the Elioud (who in that account have six fingers on each hand and each foot), although in context, these references to giants appear to refer instead to the Philistines.[5]..."



NOTES TO SELF:
   Just a thought?
  "IF" the angels came down and had relations with women, then at some point there must have been the first son from union; these were the Nephilim, the Elioud were the children of the Nephilim [the Gibborim] mentioned in their Own Book BOOK OF GIANTS 
   I propose [at this point for my story] that the first angelic grandson was named: Elioud


OOooo... a wonderful treasure trove to work into my tale! [Here]: exert below...

"...Discrepancies in the tradition[edit]

In some readings of the non-canonical texts, the Nephilim are children whose father is an angel and whose mother is a human and they are the "giants" (also known as Gibborim) referred to in the canonical Book of Numbers.[12] In others, angels and human women produce children who are Gibborim, and the Nephilim have fathers who are Gibborim and human mothers. This ambiguity is also found in the non-canonical Book of Giants, fragments of which were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.[13]
For example, according to one account, there is a discrepancy between AramaicGe'ez (i.e. Ethiopian) and Greek translations of 1 Enoch 7:2 and 7:10-11.[14]
2 And when the angels,* the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.
  • An Aramaic text reads "Watchers" here (J.T. Milik, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p. 167). . . .
10 Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees.
11 And the women conceiving brought forth giants,
  • The Greek texts vary considerably from the Ethiopic text here. One Greek manuscript adds to this section, "And they [the women] bore to them [the Watchers] three races–first, the great giants. The giants brought forth [some say "slew"] the Naphelim, and the Naphelim brought forth [or "slew"] the Elioud. And they existed, increasing in power according to their greatness."
The 1913 translation of R.H. Charles of the Book of Jubilees 7:21-25[15] reads as follows (note that "Naphil" is an alternative transliteration form of "Nephilim"):
21 For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose: and they made the beginning of uncleanness.
22 And they begat sons the Naphidim, and they were all unlike, and they devoured one another: and the Giants slew the Naphil, and the Naphil slew the Eljo, and the Eljo mankind, and one man another.
23 And every one sold himself to work iniquity and to shed much blood, and the earth was filled with iniquity.
24 And after this they sinned against the beasts and birds, and all that moves and walks on the earth: and much blood was shed on the earth, and every imagination and desire of men imagined vanity and evil continually.
25 And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything.
There are possible references to the Elioud in the non-canonical Book of Giants, fragments of which were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but a definitive reading is difficult because no complete version of this sacred text is available to modern researchers and the available fragments are in six different archaic languages.[16]...""



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Noah's FAMILY and the Unknown

(picture drawn by Me)
   There were a host of people in the Scriptures, yet many "named" elsewhere... Like



Names of the fallen angels
Some of the fallen angels that are given in 1 Enoch have other names, such as Rameel ('morning of God'), who becomes Azazel, and is also called Gadriel ('wall of God') in Chapter 68. Another example is that Araqiel ('Earth of God') becomes Aretstikapha ('world of distortion') in Chapter 68.
Azaz, as in Azazel, means strength, so the name Azazel can refer to 'strength of God'. But the sense in which it is used most probably means 'impudent' (showing strength towards), which results in 'arrogant to God'. This is also a key point in modern thought that Azazel is Satan.
Nathaniel Schmidt states "the names of the angels apparently refer to their condition and functions before the fall," and lists the likely meanings of the angels' names in the Book of Enoch, noting that "the great majority of them are Aramaic."[86]
The name suffix -el means 'God' (see list of names referring to El), and is used in the names of high-ranking angels. The archangels' names all include -el, such as Uriel ('flame of God') and Michael ('who is like God').
Another name is given as Gadreel, who is said to have tempted Eve; Schmidt lists the name as meaning 'the helper of God.'[86]
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My Story in Middle-Earth

Tolkien's Middle-Earth
(I recreated this MAP on a sheet of leather for my daughter as a gift).


Here is the Realm of Eriador, about where the last letter "r" is,
 is where The Shire's eastern boarder lies.



This is a "close up" of the area that I re-created with details for his history, and made new additions to the map and stories about the land during the Fourth Age and its end.

My map above is the original one on paper and the one below was drawn on cloth, more specifically; recycled lining from a discarded couch by the dumpster.





(Now you know!)

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Connected to the Future





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From My Book


TENACITY’S WINNER
No holidays or early morning presents.
No patriotic salutes or cheers, or pep rallies.
No Amazing Grace or songs with Hallelujahs.
Bewitched and Addams Family were demonic.
Going to bed without eating was discipline.
In Bible Times a kid like us were stoned.
I was asked more than once if I was retarded.
Slapped many times – now deaf in right ear.
I’m behind the learning curve even as an adult.
Stupid was more than just a sarcastic insinuation.
The Watchtower was revered, TIME forbidden.
Dysfunctional cousins were the non-religious ones.
I was slow; advanced for my Special Ed classes.
Considered “retarded” until I met Cope in sixth grade.
I am not a victim just a proud survivor with tenacity.


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Cindy - My Sister


   Cynthia Diane.  My sister passed away on August 31st, 2018, having been born in 1960 she only 58 years old.  All life is too brief.  We each take our learnings and build upon them in our own fashion.  Cindy's journey had many such twists and turns. Marriages, a son, grandchildren and her own family history of trials and tribulations, but she proved herself to be just as tenacious as they come.  She will be missed deeply by those who knew her.  Most, by her family, and least by those whose lives she touched even in passing.  

   Because of my own experiences and dilution of time and our fading years in becoming our own persons, sadly we drifted apart through the years; but I was blessed when she embraced my desire to reach out and reconnect as adults.  Dad scared her half to death as she hid behind the living room curtains waiting to be found, peeing the floor we laughed as hard as she did.  She dressed me, her little brother up in her dresses and practiced her makeup skills on me as well.  The smell of mustard on fired baloney sandwiches will forever recall my  sister's smile to my memory.  Her gleeful hooting shout as she and I enjoyed speeding back roads in our brother, Tracy's first car.  Oh, such were the days of youth.  Flashing forward to our adult reunion, we both shared our memories, thoughts and emotions of all those missed opportunities and new life experiences; using poetry as the vehicle.  Life is a brief thing.  Seems, once you get a handle on it, it's over.

   What is the meaning of "life"?  In my journey-experience it is to make it "meaning-full".  The journey is life, the experience of choices and consequences of lessons learned and lessons passed on; for that is what makes us human - the "passing on of life".  Thank you Cindy for teaching me more than you will even know.


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