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• gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we find that the mythology of the Phoenicians was drawn from the same source. For instance, we find in the Phoenician cosmogony that the Titans (Rephaim) derive their origin from the Phoenician gods Agrus and Agrotus. This connects the Phoenicians with that island in the remote west, in the midst of ocean, where, according to the Greeks, the Titans d

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• tochthon Literally, “Sprung from the Land,” he was the sixth king of Atlantis listed in Plato’s Kritias . Autochthon was also mentioned in Phoenician (Canaanite) myth— the Sanchoniathon—as one of the Rephaim, or Titans, just as Plato described him. The first-century B . C . Greek geographer Diodorus Siculus wrote of a native people dwelling in coastal Mauretania (modern Morocco), facing the direction of

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• ace of giants, they ruled the world before the Great Flood, which obliterated their power. Their descendants, the Emin, “a people great, and many, and tall” (Deuteronomy 2:11), were also known as the Rephaim or Anakim, who perpetuated pre-deluge religious practices atop a sacred mountain, Seir. The Nephilim appear to have been late fourth-millennium B . C . Atlanteans. Neptune The Roman Poseidon. His nam

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• ramid embodies its esoteric symbols.The monument’s legendary dwarf is perhaps reflected in the Old World Cabiri. According to the Carthaginian writer Sanchoniathon, these were gods descended from the Rephaim, or Titans, “that is, Atlas and his kin,” and worshiped in sacred mysteries at Samothrace, Thebes, Macedonia, Lemnos, Phrygia, together with parts of the Peloponnesus (Spence, 174). The Cabiri themse

• d there are the Thunderous Rakshasas ofthe Indian Ramayana, the Gigantes of the Middle East, and even in the Biblethere are matter-of-fact accounts of mighty warriors, and tribes such as theNephilim, Rephaim, Anakim and the Canaanites. Some examples, like King Og ofBashan and Goliath—who was defeated by David—even had their heights described indetail, and were attributed as the builders of megalithic tem

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• activities from 4050-2200 BC. We saw them as Olmecs building Teotihuacan c. 1390 BC and occupying Chavin de Huantar c. 1500 BC. We saw them amongst the Kassites in later Mesopotamian history. and as Rephaim and Anakim in Biblical history, when the last remnant were defeated by the Israelites c. 1400-1300 BC. The evidence suggests that Nimrod, too, was one of these Negroid giants, the one who became part

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• rduk in Mesopotamia. The mysterious Kassites who appeared in Mesopotamia at that time were workers returning from Tiwanaku. • The Kassites included Negroes who became known as the Biblical Anakim and Rephaim. These Negroes were the legendary “giants”, with large stature and long life spans, but with a doomed bloodline. CHAPTER FIFTEEN GODS OF A NEW WORLD ORDER Lifting the Veil Where are the gods now and

• range, yellow-haired peoples. They did not, however, explainaway ancient accounts of monstrous and imposing beings that possessednear-supernatural or even extraterrestrial strengths and abilities.THE REPHAIM, THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND GOLIATHOn the Website Giantsinthebible.com, author Peter Chattaway presents a completeinventory of the giant myth as they are described in the Bible. In addition tothe ominou

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• e who receive faith in him are said to be “made alive” (Hos. 6:2; Ps. 85:6). On the other hand it follows that those who are not in faith are called “dead”; as in Isaiah: The dead shall not live; the Rephaim shall not rise again, because thou hast visited and destroyed them (Isa. 26:14), meaning those who are puffed up with the love of self; to “rise again” signifies to enter into life. They are also sai

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• ore rise again. In the same: Thy dead shall live, my corpse, they shall rise again; awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for the dew of herbs is thy dew; but thou shalt cast out the land of the Rephaim (Isa. 26:19); “the land of the Rephaim” is the hell above spoken of. In David: Wilt thou show a wonder to the dead? Shall the Rephaim arise, shall they confess to thee? (Ps. 88:10), speaking in like

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• lsity by “the Perizzite.” [ 2 ] In Joshua: Joshua said to the sons of Joseph, If thou be much people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzite and of the Rephaim, if Mount Ephraim is too narrow for thee (Josh. 17:15); where principles of falsity are signified by “the Perizzite,” and persuasions of falsity by “the Rephaim,” which they were to extirpate; for in

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• is is the Salt Sea. 4. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shavehkiriathaim; 6. And the Horites in their Mount Seir, even to El-paran which is over in the wilderness. 7. And they returned, and came

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• ANA COELESTIA 943 forth, which is signified by their previously serving Chedorlaomer (verse 4). 1654. The Lord then warred against and conquered the persuasions of falsity of all kinds, which are the Rephaim, the Zuzim, the Emim, and the Horites (verses 5, 6); next, the falsities and evils themselves, which are the Amalekite and the Amorite (verse 7); afterwards the other falsities and evils, which are t

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• ord’s temptation in comparison with that of men, for he had interior and inmost perception. 1669. Verse 5. And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth- karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim. “In the fourteenth year” signifies the first temptation; “came

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• ARCANA COELESTIA 961 That also is accounted a land of Rephaim; Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; and Jehovah destroyed them from before them, and they had them in possession,

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• hy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19. The Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite; 20. And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim; 21. And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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• ARCANA COELESTIA 1091 (mentioned in Deut. 2:23); also the Emim or Rephaim who were driven out by the Moabites (spoken of in Deut. 2:9–11); and also the Zamzummim who were expelled by the Ammonites (mentioned in Deut. 2:19–21); besides many others spoken of in the prophets.

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• b” and the “sons of Ammon” denote those who are in such good, but in the beginning; on which account it is ordered that they be not distressed. [ 5 ] Hence it is that Moab drove out the Emim, and the Rephaim who were like the Anakim; and that the sons of Ammon also drove out the Rephaim whom they called the Zamzumim (Deut. 2:9–11, 18–21). By the Emim, Rephaim, Anakim, and Zamzumim are signified those who

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• which is judgment; “to die” denotes to be damned. Again: He will swallow up death eternally; and the Lord Jehovih will wipe away the tear from upon all faces (Isa. 25:8). The dead shall not live; the Rephaim shall not rise; because Thou hast visited, Thou hast extinguished them (Isa. 26:14). Thy dead shall live, my carcass, they shall arise (Isa. 26:19). Ye have said, We have made a covenant with death,

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• Ezekiel: A great voice cried in mine ears, The visitations of the city have come nigh, and a man has his instrument of destruction in his hand (Ezek. 9:1); where the sense is similar. In Isaiah: The Rephaim shall not rise, in that Thou hast visited, Thou hast extinguished them (Isa. 26:14); the “Rephaim” denote the posterity of the most ancient church, which was before the flood, who are also called “Ne

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• ng had been of the church and had been evil as to life were in such falsity as had not been before, and shall not be afterward. The reason was that they who were called “Nephilim,” also “Anakim” and “Rephaim,” and were of the last posterity of the most ancient church, were not yet shut up in hell, but wandered about and infused dire and deadly persuasions wherever they could, thus also into the evil in t

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• eceive faith in Him are said to be " made alive" (Has. vi. 2; Ps. lxxxv. 6). On the other hand it follows that those who are not in faith are called" dead"; as in Isaiah: The dead shall not live; the Rephaim shall not rise again, because Thou hast visited and destroyed them (xxvi. 14). This means those who are puffed up with the love of self; to "rise again" signifies to enter into life. They are also sa

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• 581] GENESIS. those who are called " Nephilim," and who make light of all things holy and true. Further mention is made of them in the Word. but their descendants were called" Anakim " and" Rephaim." That they were called " Anakim " is evident from Moses: There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, of the Nephilim, and we were in our own eyes as grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes (Num.

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• CHAPTER VI. [581,582 "The land of the Rephaim" is the hell above spoken of. In David : Wilt Thou show a wonder to the dead? Shall the Rephaim arise, shall they confess to Thee? (Ps. lxxxviii. 10). This treats in like manner concerning the hell o

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• , 11, 12. In the opposite sense a sepulchre signifies death or hell. A. 2916. 5, 7. The subject is the Lord's temptations, and deliver- ance from them. See also Psalm xxx. 4. A. 4728. 11. " Shall the Rephaim — dead — arise and praise thee ? " This likewise is said of the hell of the Rephaim, and sig- nifies that they cannot rise and infest the sphere of the world of spirits with the venom of their most d

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• riates in the Sense of In- spiration ; making man the companion of the Lord. Rehabiah . God is my Limit. Rehoboam . The Prince who gives Liberty to the People. Remaliuh . The Crucifixion of the Lord. Rephaim . Mental Giants, who administer medicine both to body and mind ; Curers, Healers, such as the Therapeutæ, the first known A postolical Christians by ex- isting record. A True Christian is one of the

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• “Qlippoth”. They exist as the furthest extent of the fall of spirit. They are so fallen that they cannot even have a Supernal form, so in its place is darkness. The seven lower realms are occupied by Rephaim, Qetebim, Taga’arim, Seirim, Teraphim, Oirim and Na’aomoth. Each comes with detailed descriptions; for example, Qetebim are destroyers, the pestilence that walks in darkness. Sephira. Planet. Angel.

• says that dead thingsare formed from under the Waters, and the inhabitants thereof. 514[part0043.xhtml#bkNNukXASbeMRD6BSrWx2Q21509] In the original text, instead of“dead things ,” it is written dead Rephaim, Giants or mighty Primitive Men, fromwhom Evolution may one day trace our present race. 515[part0043.xhtml#bkNNukXASbeMRD6BSrWx2Q21510]“In the primordial state of the creation,” says Polier's Mytholo

• , volcanoes and magic. 637[part0105.xhtml#bkNNukXASbeMRD6BSrWx2Q24222]In the same work above cited, the author wonders why in the Bible and traditionthe Gibborim, the giants or the “mighty ones,” the Rephaim, the spectres or the“phantoms,” the Nephilim, or the “fallen ones” (irruentes), are shown as ifidentical, though they are “all men ,” since the Bible calls them the primitiveand the mighty ones—e.g.,

• eAtlanteans are mentioned as our predecessors. For what can be plainer than thefollowing statement, when speaking of the Book of Job: In the original text,instead of “dead things,” it is written dead Rephaim (giants, or mightyprimitive men), from whom “Evolution” may one day trace our present race . 1146[part0108.xhtml#bkNNukXASbeMRD6BSrWx2Q22394]It is invited to do so now, now that this hint is explaine

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• Bible, when corroborating with its stories of angels and apparitions the claimed materialization of spirits, ought not to lose sight of, and conveniently forget when speaking of “empty shells,” the “Rephaim” of the Jews—which people their Sheol or Hades. Is not the literal meaning of “Rephaim” pithless or “empty” shades, and is not the Sheol our Kamaloka? Nor does this fact clash with our theory, while

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• 200 as biblical ancestor, V 205, 215 Occult Doctrine disregards fable of, Japhet & Ham, V 213 fn. Shen: Genii of the mountains, XIV 18 Sheol: Hell of the Jews, I 187 & fn. In Jewish theology, XII 73 Rephaim and, IV 591 Sheppard, Jesse (1849-1927): as medium, I 92 garbled account of medium, III 362-63 Shermah: insect of Masonry, XI 173-74 (181-82) Shesha [Sk. ®esha]: Canopy of VishŠu and, XIII 159 Defini

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• Spirit of God. ʺ Job mentions, in chap. xxvi., 5, that ʺ dead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof. ʺ In the original text, instead of ʺ dead things, ʺ it is written dead Rephaim (giants, or mighty primitive men), from whom ʺ Evolution ʺ may one day trace our present race. In the Egyptian mythology, Kneph the Eternal unrevealed God is represented by a snake ‐ emblem of eterni

• by the "Spirit of God." Job mentions, in chap. xxvi., 5,that "dead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof." Inthe original text, instead of "dead things," it is written dead Rephaim (giants,or mighty primitive men), from whom "Evolution" may one day trace our presentrace. In the Egyptian mythology, Kneph the Eternal unrevealed God is representedby a snake-emblem of eternity enci

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• gs in nature . * . . . Job says, in chap. xxvi. 5, that ʺ dead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof. ʺ In the original text, instead of ʺ dead things, ʺ it is written dead Rephaim (giants or mighty primitive men), from whom ʺ Evolution ʺ may one day trace our present race. ʺ * With the Greeks, the ʺ River ‐ gods, ʺ all of them the Sons of the primeval ocean (Chaos in its mas

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• h the ideas about giants, volcanoes and magic. ʺ ( Page 48.) In the same work above cited of the Abbé Pègues, the author wonders why in Bible and tradition the Gibborim, (Giants, the mighty ones) the Rephaim, or the spectres ( Phantoms ), the Nephilim, or the fallen ones — ( irruentes ) — are shown ʺ as if identical, though they are all men , since the Bible calls them the primitive and the mighty ones ʺ

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• entioned as our predecessors, namely, in Volume I., p. 133, when speaking of the Book of Job. For what can be plainer than this: ʺ In the original text, instead of ʹ dead things, ʹ it is written dead Rephaim, giants, or mighty primitive men, from whom ʹ Evolution ʹ may one day trace our present race. ʺ It is invited to do so now, now that this hint is explained quite openly; but Evolutionists are as sure

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• The Theosophical Glossary 256 Just the same as it is now. Rephaim ( Heb .). Spectres, phantoms. (Secret Doctrine , II., 279.) Resha ‐ havurah ( Heb., Kab .). Lit., the “White Head”, from which flows the fiery fluid of life and intelligence in three hundred and seve

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• ory says. What happens to Lot is that he gets tangled up in the chaos of the lowest place that there is. "And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim, And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. "And they returned, and came to Enmish

• roop (rPnb> fechyehj into a Living Creature) where was a pieceof ground full of lentils. — 2 Sam. xxiii. 11. And the troop (rPn, chyth, theLiving Creature) of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.”—ver. 13.. The books of grammar say that collective nouns, the names of kinds and sorts,do not designate realities ; but the books of grammar are not always ofauthority in matters philosophical. We

• roop (rPnb> fechyehj into a Living Creature) where was a pieceof ground full of lentils. — 2 Sam. xxiii. 11. And the troop (rPn, chyth, theLiving Creature) of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.”—ver. 13.. The books of grammar say that collective nouns, the names of kinds and sorts,do not designate realities ; but the books of grammar are not always ofauthority in matters philosophical. We

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• ts of Destruction Warriors Hittites Trustees of Terror Hierophants Kadmonites Ancestor Worshippers Fascists Perizzites Artisans of Arrogance Egoists Amorites Guardians of the Limelight Exhibitionists Rephaims Slaves of Awe Sycophants Girgashites Worshippers of Wealth Opportunists Jebusites Masters of Oppression Tyrants The Ten Nations of Canaan

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• Netsach—Endurance, Will: The Devotion of the Rephaims “Rephaim” is most commonly translated as “giants,” which term is accurately applied to their world view: all things, to the Rephaims, are gigantic in their implications—so huge as to pre - vent any

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• s of them - selves that they have set up in the minds of the people. The most prevalent influences in the city , amidst its confusion, come from families of the Perizzites, the Amorites, and from the Rephaims, of whom I saw but little. Chief among Y e s o d ’ s families are the Perizzites, an unctuous people. We shall have but little suc - cess among these, as they have an inordinately high opinion of th

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• naan, the better of these will be sure to follow . They would never get over being left out. In sheer numbers, I encountered more Amorites in Y esod than any other tribe. I may have seen a few of the Rephaims among the Amorites, but the two tribes are difficult to distinguish from each other . Some chance phrase overheard led to my assump - tion that there are more of them in Yesod than might at first ap

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• erior. If we could remove that covering of pride without utter - ly ruining them, we might discover, inside, the raw materials necessary for building compassion. I’m pretty sure there was a prominent Rephaim among one such furtive group; at any rate, the Perizzites held him in high regard. That’s it! If they can honor another—in whatever sense and for whatever reason—they might also come to honor one of

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• ! I separated from the others quite early and looked for a place with some relative quiet, so that my spirit could assert 48 Joshua’s Path Canaanites Kenizzites Kenites Kadmonites Hittites Perizzites Rephaims Amorites Girgashites Jebusites Kether Chokmah Binah Chesed Din Tipareth Netsach Hod Yesod Malkuth

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• on; and I was not inclined to probe beneath the surface, expect - ing to find better opportunity for learning of the Canaanite peoples. Our Heavenly Father fulfilled my expectations by sending me the Rephaim family. They had come to see the healer living in Yesod on behalf of their daughter, whose feet and legs had been subject to periodic swelling for several years. The family came to Yesod weekly to pu

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• some apparently beneficial effects, but the swelling soon increased in severity. The Rephaims idolized the healer and did not think to question his wisdom or his methods. If the child were to worsen and die, they confided to me, certainly there was no better man in all of Canaan to care for

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• House), and the basis for the terrorism of one peo - ple against another is removed. All are perceived as being brothers, and reconciliation replaces destruction as the remedy for differences. Of the Rephaims (sycophants) and the Amorites (exhibitionists), it is the Amorites that are to be driven out. When all mankind is perceived as the offspring of the heavenly Father, whose patrimo - ny is life itself

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• mber of embryos . After the deluge the souls of the antediluvians inc arnated in five different races or nations, viz., t he Nephilim (fallen or degraded), Giborim (mighty ones), Anakim (tall o nes), Rephaim (the giants), and Amalekim (Amalekite s). It was through the last of these that He fell from on high . Balaam and Balak were descendants of Amalek. Take Ain and Mim (a and m) from the former, L and K

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• obb ing them of every thing they possessed. Concerning them the Scripture states, "And the waters prevailed and wer e increased greatly upon the earth" (Gen. vii. 19). The fourth race was that of the Rephaim or Giants, who, whenever they beheld the children of Israel in sore straits or distress and afflictions, scoffed and derided them and treated with contempt the good law and its stud ents and follower

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• • Abkalu “Apkallu” • Siddim • Dingir • Dybukur • Gab’r (Ga’br) • Gabra’il “Gabriel • Hawwah • Lilith • Malak • Rephaim “Rpum” • Lulu • Nafari “Nafarim” Note: I wrote about this topic in my book “The Grays, Alien Abduction and Genetic Creation of Humans Hybrids Race”. Ironically or coincidentally, this classificatio

• ESTRIALS AND THE ANUNNAKI…102> • Hebraic Definition and introduction…102> • Sons of God in Canaanite traditions…103> • The “bene ha 'elohim”, the Nephilim and the extraterrestrial Anunnaki…103> • The Rephaim…104Shape-shifting “Ibra-Anu”…104> • I. Definition and introduction…104> • II. Anunnaki’s shape-shifting…104Extraterrestrials in the Book of Ramadosh…100 “Ezakarfalki”, “E-zakar-falki”…105> • I. Defin

• Bene ha-Elohim and the extraterrestrials:I. Hebraic Definition and introductionII. Sons of God in Canaanite traditionsIII. The “bene ha 'elohim”, the Nephilim and the extraterrestrial AnunnakiIV. The Rephaim___________________ I. Hebraic definition and introduction:As stated in Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Rabbis saw "bene ha'elohim" as referring to righteous men, not as the "Sons of God." T

• ciatetheir legendary kings with the Anunnaki kings. > • 2-The Bible:I will be brief.The Old Testament offered contradicting, convergent and divergent portrayals ofthe Anunnaki, usually referred to as Rephaim, Anakim, Nephilim, B’nai Elohim, soon.Don’t count on these Biblical accounts. The early Hebrew scribes borrowed theirmajor Biblical stories from the myths and religions of Babylon, Ugarit, Amritand P

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• Name of a demon created by the Anunnaki. Pazuzu is the king of the wind, which protects human beings from evil, diseases, and plague... 192 Rephaim “Rpum”...195 An Ana’kh word for a race of Anunnaki giants, whose remnants occupied an area east of Canaan, and the southern region of Phoenicia. This is another name for the tall Anunnaki w

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• quarantined in the “Shabha Ardi”, the isolated region in the Middle East inaccessible to human beings. Some Ulema consider Ekimu a “Fallen Angel”. Some Biblical scholars refer to Ekimu as one of the Rephaim or Anakim. Each has a totally different meaning in the Anunnaki literature and the Chaldean texts. In Chaldean, Ekimu was the name of the spirit ranking beneath the angels of heaven and Earth . ***

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• Statuette of Pazuzu, the Sumerian-Assyrian demon. ________________________________ Rephaim “Rpum”: Ana’kh/Ulemite/Phoenician/Hebrew. Noun. An Ana’kh word for a race of Anunnaki giants’ remnants that occupied an area

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• east of Canaan, and the southern region of Phoenicia. This is another name for the tall Anunnaki who lived in the area. In Phoenician, they are called “Rpum”. Rephaim means “The shades” in Hebrew and Phoenician. The early Phoenician and Babylonian scribes called them the deities of the underworld. The Rephaim in the Bible: The Rephaim were mentioned 32 times in th

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• Rephaim ; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you...” Joshua 18:16 : “...The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is i

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• toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim ...” 1 Chronicles 20:8 : “...These were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; they came to their death by the hands of David and his servants...” Job 26:5 : “...The Rephaim are formed be

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• t of a man...” Deuteronomy 3:13 : “...And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob--all that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim...” Joshua 12:4 : “...And the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei...” Joshua 13:12 : “...All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in As

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• ng corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in Genesis 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim...” Genesis 15:20 : “...And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims ...” *** *** *** Lulu: Akkadian

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• , the Bible, the Scriptures and religious texts (Orthodox or Gnostic) in Aramaic, Hebrew, Coptic, Nabatean, Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon referred to the Anunnaki very differently, such as the Anakim, Rephaim, Goliim, Elohim, the giants, Nephilim, to name a few. The real meaning of the word Anunnaki Anunnaki is an Ana’kh/Sumerian/Akkadian noun that means many things. The Anunnaki is an ancient Sumerian/Ak

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• therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. Rephaim and Anakim are considered to be alternate names for Nefilim-Anunnaki. The term “Fallen Angels” is a product of Biblical scribes, and the early Hebrews. Ulema Bukhtiar said, “The Fallen Angels were An

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• therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. Rephaim and Anakim are considered to be alternate names for Nefilim-Anunnaki. The term “Fallen Angels” is a product of Biblical scribes, and the early Hebrews. Ulema Bukhtiar said, “The Fallen Angels were An

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• rying one of the Earth-Link women who lived quarantined in the “Shabha Ardi”, the isolated region in the Middle East, inaccessible to human beings. Some Biblical scholars refer to Ekimu as one of the Rephaim or Anakim. In Chaldea, Ekimu was the name of the spirit ranking beneath the angels of heaven and earth. El Mudhib: Name of a spirit, the Taaleb can summon on Thursday. Eljo: Name of the people who we

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• therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. Rephaim and Anakim are considered to be alternate names for Nefilim-Anunnaki. The term “Fallen Angels” is a product of Biblical scribes, and the early Hebrews. Ulema Bukhtiar said, “The Fallen Angels were An

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• rom war.”Deuteronomy 2:10, 11: “The Emim dwelt therein in times past, apeople great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. Which also wereaccounted giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.Rephaim and Anakim are considered to be alternate names forNefilim-Anunnaki. The term “Fallen Angels” is a product of Biblical scribes, and the early Hebrews. Ulema Bukhtiar said, “The FallenAngels were Anun

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• of the prophet Isaiah, they would have known that the Nephilim and all the other hybrids are not eligible for the resurrection and there was nothing to worry about, for "the dead will not live, the [Rephaim] will not rise" (Isaiah 26:14a). Planet earth's past is filled with strange tales of fallen angels, Nephilim, and Trans -Human beings, all memorialized in the ancient myths and cultures of every anci

• of them were finally killed off. The word nephilim only appears twice in the Old Testament (Gen 6:4; Num. 13:33), but these giants are also referred to as gibbor (Gen 6:4; Num. 13:33; Job 16:14) and rephaim when they reappear in a more limited fashion after the flood (Gen. 14:5; 15:20; Deu. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Jos. 12:4; 13:12; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16; II Sam. 5:18, 22; 21:16, 18, 20, 22; 23:13; I Chr. 11:15

• f the existenceof the human race on Earth.Instead, the terms “Gods” or “Heavenly Masters” were used.And thousands of years later, those terms were changed to “Giants” (Amalika),“Elohim”, “Nephilim”, “Rephaim”, “Anakim”, and even “Fallen Angels”, so on. Each universe has its own god.Question: Do you believe in God?Alien: Which one?Question: Our God!Alien: Each Universe has its own god, which is the “Highe

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• in the “Shabha Ardi”, the isolated region in the Middle East inaccessible to human beings. Some Ulema consider Ekimu as a “Fallen Angel”. Some Biblical scholars refer to Ekimu as one of the Rephaim or Anakim with a totally different meaning in the Anunnaki literature, Phoenician inscriptions and the Chaldean texts. In Chaldea, Ekimu was the name of the spirit ranking beneath the angels of heave

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• • Genesis, 14:5: “And in the fourteenth year came Chedarlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zumim in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim.” • Deuteronomy 2:10, 11: “The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims. Wh

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• ancient visitors. These beings were named the Nephilim (“those who were cast down”). There are many names that have come down to us that were used to describe the visitors. Some of these are: Anakim, Rephaim, Djinn, Giants, Titans, Fallen Angels, the Watchers, the Els, the Ari, Elders,

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• re seen as stars on Earth, fallen like the meteors and worshipped by the likes of the Calani. Anak was the giant of the Bible who spawned the Anakim, living on both sides of the river Jordan like the Rephaim. The Nephilim were the offspring of the sons of God (Watchers, Angels and giants) and ordinary women. Charlemagne was said to be a giant and was so strong he could squeeze together three horseshoes.

• e-head carving in his labyrinth suggests that hispeople had some association with the Scythian Axe Lords of Idumea and Mittani,from whence came the cult of the Kings of the Dead (Osiris or Orion), theRephaim or Angels. The chronology is flawed in the original tales and the characters are mostlikely to have been the lineal descendants of the major deific personages, butremoved by relationship to a further

• , and as Ishtar, the morning and evening star, shepersonified “war” in the mornings (Seratonin) and “love” in the evenings(Melatonin). After Ishtar's example, the progeny of the Anunnaki dynasty, the Rephaim orAngels, who became the Elven, Dragon Maidens and Knights of Albany, Eire andGaul, fulfilled two roles, that of destroyers and reapers, and that of divinelovers and healers. Under the patronage of I

• etes itself: it transcends). A Dragon eating a Dragon (atranscended one drinking from another transcended one, Samael drinking Lilith)becomes a Phoenix—a Raven King, Swan Knight/Prince, Dragon Queen, Rephaim etc. The Phoenix in its final transcendent glory becomes a flaming, leaping star, anAn, or Shining One. “The Nahash is taught by the Raven or the Dove” means thatthe Dragon Kings drink from Grail Pri

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• nown, those who were said to be the off- spring of the Sons of God and the daughters of men—is Nephilim. Interestingly, the word used to denote true giants, as far as great stature was concerned, was rephaim. The Israelites found such giants among the Canaanite inhabitants of Palestine. Among these were the Anakims of Philisa and the Emims of Moab. Goliath was a Gittite, a man of great stature and bulk,

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• is the portion of ordinary mortals. Isaiah 26:14 reads: "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise." The original Hebrew word translated "deceased" here is the word "Rephaim." It would have saved a lot of misinterpretation if the translators had left the word as it was in the original. The verse actually reads: "Dead, they shall not live; Rephaim, they shall not rise." T

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• fortune-telling. 13 It is in this context that we should now read a passage in Isaiah: “0 dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy ! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades (Rephaim) thou wilt let it fall” (Isa 26: 19). The “Rephaim”, as their name can now be seen to mean, were those “cast down from heaven”, 14 the fallen angels of the sixth chapter of Genesis, and a common them

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• es knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fuiness of God (Eph 3 I4— ‘9). Isaiah also looked for the manifesta tion of the spirits of the dead. He identified them with the “giants” of old, the Rephaim whose gift of knowledge to mankind had proved a not unmixed blessing: Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. o dwellers in the dust, awake and sing forjoy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and o

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• travellers – indeed, the embodiment of the protective angel in general. He is regarded as one of the four (or seven) archangels. It has been sug- gested that his name is connected with that of the → Rephaim. Rapithwin Old Iranian god of midday, lord of summer and of the southerly quarter. Ra y nu In old Iranian religion, the personification of righteousness, the god of Ordal and guardian of the Cinvat b

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• alennia Ningirsu Ninurta Njörd Nommo Nymphs Osiris Pachamama Pa f upati Poseidon Priapos Rauni Reret Rosmerta M entait Serapis Thor Tinnit Ukemochi Vanir Xewioso Fertility demons Baubo Kurétes N a ga Rephaim Satyr Tu (2) Ya k s as Fire, deities of Agni Cácus Coatlicue Eate Gabija Gibil Hephaistos Hinokagutsuchi Itzpapalotl Jagaubis Kukulcan Li Mahuike Nusku Odgan P a ndar a Sethlans Svarog Tabiti Verbti

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• activities from 4050-2200 BC. We saw them as Olmecs building Teotihuacan c. 1390 BC and occupying Chavin de Huantar c. 1500 BC. We saw them amongst the Kassites in later Mesopotamian history. and as Rephaim and Anakim in Biblical history, when the last remnant were defeated by the Israelites c. 1400-1300 BC. The evidence suggests that Nimrod, too, was one of these Negroid giants, the one who became part

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• rduk in Mesopotamia. The mysterious Kassites who appeared in Mesopotamia at that time were workers returning from Tiwanaku. • The Kassites included Negroes who became known as the Biblical Anakim and Rephaim. These Negroes were the legendary “giants”, with large stature and long life spans, but with a doomed bloodline. CHAPTER FIFTEEN GODS OF A NEW WORLD ORDER Lifting the Veil Where are the gods now and

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• en" and the non-humans the Bible calls the Elohim. The Illuminati bloodlines that rule the world today are the Nefilim, a race of human/non-human hybrids. They were also known in ancient times as the Rephaim, Emim, Zazummim and Anakim, and they were all very tall or 'giant' people in those days. IS The Biblical Goliath was a Rephaim and giant in Hebrew is repha.J6 This theme of giants is a constant on~.

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• ere do these nephilim show up later in the Bible?" Deidre asked. "The book of Joshua," Brian answere d. "Though by then they were known by various clan names: the Anakim, the Emim, the Zamzummim, the Rephaim. Same description though—unusual physical stature. They were the original enemies of Israel when the conquest of Canaan began—remember, the Old Testament basically documents a continuing violent oppo

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• s and feet," Brian replied. "The corpses had six fingers and six toes. We know from the book of II Samuel 21, verse 20 th at this was a distinctive feature of the Philistine giants of the clan of the Rephaim—Goliath and his brothers." "Weird! " said Malcolm. "Despite that anomaly, I think the Col onel makes a good point," Mark noted. "It seems impossible that these puny gr ay beings could have been in a

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• 4: “To your descendants I give this land, from th e river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenite s, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” The flexibility of the ultimate aims of Zionism can also be seen by Ben-Gurion’s comment in 1936 that The acceptance of partition [

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• re shall be punishment on any royal prince, or common man, who shall open this lid, or carry away this cof fi n in which I rest, or disturb me in this chamber. He shall have no funeral couch with the Rephaim (or ghosts) : he shall not be buried in a tomb: nor shall he have son, or offspring, to succeed him ; for th e holy gods shall cause him to be cut off . . . there shall be for them neither root below

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• or, and giving life to souls in Amenti, or Hades. She is the consort of Shu (“ wind ” or “ air ”). Raphael. Hebrew : “ the giant of God.” One of the four arch- angels according to the later Jews (see Rephaim). Rasena. A name of the Etruskans, or other early tribes in Italy (see Etruskans). As an Aryan word it may come from Ra “ to go ” and Sena a “ leader,” meaning “ chiefs of the migrants.” Rat. Accordi

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• connected with the year as Renpu. Repha ī m. Hebrew : “ weak things,” “ shades,” “ clouds.” The term is also applied to giants (see Nephil ī m) who are otherwise called “ tall ” (see ’Anak ̣ ). These Rephaim lived in Bashan in the 22nd century B . C . (Gen. xiv, 5), aud Repha was a Philistine giant (2 Sam. xxi, 16, 18). In the Psalm (lxxxviii, 10) we read : “ Wilt thou show wonders to the dead, shall the

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• alt sea. 014:004 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 014:005 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 014:006 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness. 014:007 And they returned, and

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• he LORD saved them by a great deliverance. 011:015 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 011:016 Book 13 : 1 Chronicles − Chapter 011 56

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• e fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 017:005 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 017:006 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith

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• d the Lord saved them by a great victory. 11:15 And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, unto the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 11:16 And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth−lehem. 11:17 And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bet

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• avid was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out to meet them. 14:9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim. 14:10 And David inquired of God, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the Lord said unto him: 'Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand.'

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• , and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth−jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah; 12:4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5 and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, even unto the border of

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• the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei−−the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim−− for these did Moses smite, and drove them out. 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites; but Geshur and Maacath dwelt in the midst of Israel unto

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• much as the Lord hath blessed me thus?' 17:15 And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill−country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.' 17:16 And the children of Joseph said: 'The hill−country will not be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the va

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• and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. 18:16 And the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En−rogel. 18:17 And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En−shemesh, and went out to

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• id was anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. 5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 5:19 And David inquired of the Lord, saying: 'Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into my hand?' And the Lord said unto David: 'Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Phil

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• ss of his flesh shall wax lean. 17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 17:6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive−tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith t

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• s the Salt Sea. 14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth−karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh−kiriathaim, 14:6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El−paran, which is by the wilderness. 14:7 And they turned back, and came

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• ed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates; 15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 15:21 Genesis − Chapter 015 46

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• to allanimals ( nephesh). Although some part of thisanimating force was thought to survive thedestruction of the body, it was regarded withsuperstitious terror and referred to ambiguously bythe term rephaim (“shades” or “ghosts”: theinhabitants of Sheol). 114By the 2nd Century BCE Hebrew doctrine hadchanged to include the revivification of the materialbody, but Hebrew theologians never extended thisprin

• ls ( nephesh).Although some part of this animating force was thoughtto survive the destruction of the body, it was regardedwith superstitious terror and referred to ambiguously bythe terms elohim and rephaim. By the 2nd century BCEHebrew doctrine had changed to include therevivification of the material body, but Hebrewtheologians never extended this principle to thePythagorean/Platonic concept of an inde

• er permanently imprisoned orreinserted by God/Jesus.Summarily Hebrews had no concept of the “soul”beyond a mere animal-animating force ( nephesh), ofwhich only reviled and feared elementals elohim andrephaim remained with the corpse.The early Christians [erroneously] mistook the Greekpsyche for the Hebrew nephesh, insisting that, althoughsundered at death, it would soon reunite with its deadbody:And fear

• Amentiand the Tuat nicely mapped out, including where not tostep if you didn’t want your ba-foot eaten by Apep.No guidebook was need for the Jewish Sheol; it’s adivine dump, a celestial cesspool for rephaim refuse.At least Christians could throw dice for Dante’s DivineComedy (!) of Paradise, Purgatory, or Inferno, for whichHieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya were only toohappy to offset Michelangelo and

• , Wilhelm 18, 138.Physis 84.Reincarnation 151.Pistis 116.Relativity 208, 214-5, 226,Plato228-9.Critias, The 247.Religions, profane 148.Meno, The 17, 21, 25,Ren 76, 141-3, 152.31, 34, 40, 48, 55-6, 67,Rephaim 61.- 285 -Romanticism 114-5.162-3.Rousseau, Jean-JacquesTaoism 66, 75, 111, 248.105-9.Teleology 70, 87.Samadhi 217.Telos 27, 48, 69-70, 85-7,Sartre, Jean-Paul 146.94, 101, 110, 127, 147,Satan 18, 50,

• allanimals ( nephesh). Although some part of this forcewas thought to survive the destruction of the body, itwas regarded with superstitious terror and referredto ambiguously by the terms elohim and rephaim.These shades drift forever in El’s [Mesopotamian]104 Wilson, Robert Anton, Schrödinger’s Cat. New York: PocketBooks, 1979, page #98.- 192 -underworld of Kur-nu-gi-a or Sheol, a dim, dismalprison.As t

• als ( nephesh). Althoughsome part ofthis animating force was thought to survive the destruction of the body, it wasregarded withsuperstitious terror and referred to ambiguously by the terms elohim andrephaim. By the 2ndcentury BCE Hebrew doctrine had changed to include the revivification of thematerial body, butHebrew theologians never extended this principle to the Pythagorean/Platonicconcept of anindep

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• fortune-telling. 13 It is in this context that we should now read a passage in Isaiah: “0 dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy ! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades (Rephaim) thou wilt let it fall” (Isa 26: 19). The “Rephaim”, as their name can now be seen to mean, were those “cast down from heaven”, 14 the fallen angels of the sixth chapter of Genesis, and a common them

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• es knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fuiness of God (Eph 3 I4— ‘9). Isaiah also looked for the manifesta tion of the spirits of the dead. He identified them with the “giants” of old, the Rephaim whose gift of knowledge to mankind had proved a not unmixed blessing: Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. o dwellers in the dust, awake and sing forjoy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and o

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• d for giants of primeval times; also as fallen angels, or their offspriig (the "sons of God" who cohabited with the daughters of men, as in Genesis 6). Closely related were the eminl ("terrors"), the rephaim ("weakeners"), the gibborium ("giants"), the zamzummim ("achiev- ers"), etc. [RJ: Enoch I; De Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal; Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews; Num- bers 13:33.] Head of the nephilim

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• ir becomes a Kingdom. All monuments beyond this uncertain, but many Tablets are unfolding earlier history. ILOI, 8th King of Kaldian Dynasty reigning (Berosus). Zoozims, Emims, Hoorites, Horites, and Rephaim (Giants) mentioned in all lands from Phenicia to Kaldia, showing that Ku-thites are moving West. Probable date of the IZDU-BAR TABLETS. Simli-Shilak. ABRAMIC EMIGRATION N.W. AKAD great active centre.

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• the account of “The Wars of the Gods and Titans,” or Giants—feebly echoed in the early chapters of the Jewish Genesis, when it is said the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and the Giants or Rephaim race interfered with the puny Sethites; then it was that a general stampede took phee from Babel, in order that the unity of the race of man might not become too strong for the puny El or Al—a God wh

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• he who was nursed by Tithenæ.3 “The Zuzims of Ham,” and the Emims of the land of Moab, “who dwelt there in times paat, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakims, who were accounted giants,” or Rephaim,4 are thus noticed in the Jewish sacred writings, and acknowledged by orthodoxy as warring in the 20th century B.C. The most ancient writers cilled this “the war of the giants,” “the flight of Bacchu

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• e representa-tive was also a spike, spear, hair, and the vernal Ram. Tho Bible which Ezra brought out of Kaldia in the fifth century B.C., speaks of these great buildern as “a mighty people,” giants, Rephaim, etc., who occupied all the country from the salt Vale of Siddim to “Dobah on the left hand of Damascus”; and this when Abram was a migrating Arab Shaik twenty centuries B.C., or according to the LXX

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• The Rev. Mr. Porter says that though “the monuments designed by the genius, and reared by the wealth of Imperial Rome are fast mouldering to ruins in this land, that the simple massive houses of the Rephaims are many cases as perfect as if only completed yesterday.” “These were built,” he adds, “by the gigantic Emim and Rephaim, long before the Kaldian shepherd migrated from Ur to Canaan;” that the citi

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• Phenicia, Wes-tern, Asia, and West of England, and in Persia. as Anœa; also termed Omanus, Anadatus, 239 An-ak, Nebo, of phalo-solar affinities, 150, 181; sons of, 509 Anakeia. festivals, 50 Anakim, Rephaim, giants, 190; term of nobility, 512, 560 An-aka from An, Am, or Ak; their descendants, 164; Bakchus, 509 Anna’s house, 605 Anat, Beltis, Daokina, a female Tri-nity, 55 Anat, Ana, 57 Ana-Perena, “Quec

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• ithitscentralcity,holy groves,andloeal gods.Thesebeeame,intheEuphrateaneountries,theprovineesruledbythenumerouscitiesintowhichthelandwasdivided,andinSyriathedistrictsoftheearlyCanaanitepopulationoftheRephaimdeseribedintheBook ofJoshuaascitieswiththeirassociatedvillages . Thesedistrictsmusthavebeenverysmall,for intheterritoryofthetribeofJudah,eoveringabout1,200squaremiles, onehundredandsixeities,eaehrulin

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• KTU 1.2387ars who dealt with these texts earlier: Virolleaud34: epic/(Danel)/myth(Rephaim); Caquot-Sznycer35: “suite du poème de Danel”; Spronk36: “epic com-position”; De Moor37: “heroic poetry” (Aqht); Wyatt38: “perhaps ... the mytho-logical background to ... KTU 1.161”.My opinion, alrea

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• Indices233Papašarru 126Pġt/Puġatu 26, 185rpủm/Rapaʔūma/Rāpiʔūma/Rephaim 31, 87,97 n. 85, 126, 207 n. 11ršp/Rašpu 32, 114, 118, 188, 197Šaʕtiqatu 20, 82 n. 8Ṣamalu 25ṣpn/Ṣapānu 21šḫr-šlm/Šaḫru-Šalimu 32, 89, 188špš/Šapšu 16, 31, 32, 33, 90, 91, 122, 124,125 n. 75, 126, 16

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• (but see, inter alia, J. C.de Moor, The Seasonal Pattern in the Ugaritic Myth of Baºlu According to the Version of Ilimilku [AOAT 16;Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1971], 71; C. L’Heureux, “The Ugaritic Rephaim Texts: CTA 20–22.Translations and Philological Notes,” Society of Biblical Literature 1977 Seminar Papers [ed. P. J. Achte-meier; Missoula, 1977], 287 with n. 16; J. C. L. Gibson, Canaanite Myths and

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• ch, Magic in Ancient Egypt (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), 45). But whether this is analogous to Jewish demonic possession is doubtful.86 DDD, 238, col. 2, citing respectively the Biblical Rephaim and Josephus, Bellum Judaeorum, 7.185.87 Caquot, ‘Anges et démons en Israël’, 143–44; Langton, Essentials of Demonology, 107–11; DDD, 238, col. 2.88 A. Y. Reed, Fallen Angels and the History of Judai

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• (that is, the Salt Sea). Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashterothkarnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shavehkiriathaim, and the Horites in their Mount Seir as far as Elparan on the border of the wilderness; then they turned back and came to Enmishpat

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• saying, To your seed I give this land, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites. (15:18–21) These are the borders with the two evil empires of the Ancient Near East: Babylonia and Egypt, empires that conquered smal

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• ant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring will I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakorites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. 19 The day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerin

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• 8 He made a heap (of stones) for a witness there; wherefore the name of that place is called, "The Heap of Witness," after this heap. 9 But before they used to call the land of Gilead the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim were born giants whose height was ten, nine, eight, down to seven cubits. 10 Their dwelling place was from the land of the children of Ammon to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingd

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• r “Qlippoth”. They exist as the furthest extent of the fall of spirit. They areso fallen that they cannot even have a Supernal form, so in its place is darkness.The seven lower realms are occupied by Rephaim, Qetebim, Taga’arim, Seirim,Teraphim, Oirim and Na’aomoth. Each comes with detailed descriptions; forexample, Qetebim are destroyers, the pestilence that walks in darkness.Sephira.Planet.Angel.Intell

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• r “Qlippoth”. They exist as the furthest extent of the fall of spirit. They areso fallen that they cannot even have a Supernal form, so in its place is darkness.The seven lower realms are occupied by Rephaim, Qetebim, Taga’arim, Seirim,Teraphim, Oirim and Na’aomoth. Each comes with detailed descriptions; forexample, Qetebim are destroyers, the pestilence that walks in darkness.Sephira.Planet.Angel.Intell

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• 194THEWORSHIPOFTHEDEADPalestine,theRephaim,Enim,AnakimandZuzim,concerningwhomthewriterofthearticleon"TheGiants,"inSmith'sDictionaryoftheBible,says,"TheywerenotCanaanites,asthereisnomentionoftheminthegenealogiesinGen.x.15-19."'Thisomissionwoul

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• tobetheonlygod,theraceofCainhadbecomewithoutmoralrestraint,asshownbytheshamelessnessofthewomen,andwerethusdefencelessagainstthetemptationsofevilspirits,andthewomen,havingfollowedthepathswhichleadtotheRephaim,fromwhichthereisnoreturn,wouldprobablypreferashusbandstheirheaven-bornsonstoanywhoweremerelymen,moreespeciallyif,asimpliedbytheApostlesPeterandJude,theirangelhusbandshadmetwithswiftpunishmentforleavi

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• ofthePagangodfromthefirst,andthosewhoworshippedbecamelikehim.Thesystem,withallitslustandcruelty,wasinfullforce,andhadevidentlybeenlongestablishedinCanaanwhentheIsraelitescamethere;whilethementionoftheRephaim,ZuzimandotherNephilimraces,asearlyasthetimeofAbraham,^showsthatitwasthenwellestablished,andthatfullintercoursewiththedaimoniamusthavebeenlongcarriedon.Nationswhowerethusundertheguidanceofspiritsofevi

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• l bodies. The point is the radical passing away of the present age, including death’s silent, dusty darkness.The reference to “rephaim” at v. 19’s end is significant. in the wider semitic world, the “rephaim” were group founders, royal patrons. in their persons, individual and

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• l, Rebecca, 184Rashba, 392raz nihyeh (mystery that is to be), 56, 61, 211, 283Reader, Ian, 438Reagan, Ronald, 428, 453Redles, David, 434Reeves, John, 154Reid, Stephen, 127Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 328rephaim, 28–29resistance: in 1 Enoch, 146, 151–152, 160; ancient Near Eastern traditions of, 148; conceptualization of, 146–147, 160; contextual versus compositional, 149–150; in Daniel, 6, 132, 138–139, 146

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• s with the ideas about giants,volcanoes and magic." (Page 48.)In the same work above cited of the Abbe Pegues, the author wonders why in Bible and tradition the Gibborim, (Giants,the mighty ones) the Rephaim, or the spectres (Phantoms), the Nephilim, or the fallen ones -- (irruentes) -- are shown "asif identical, though they are all men, since the Bible calls them the primitive and the mighty ones" -- e.

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• are mentioned as our predecessors, namely, in Volume I., p. 133, whenspeaking of the Book of Job. For what can be plainer than this: "In the original text, instead of 'dead things,' it is writtendead Rephaim, giants, or mighty primitive men, from whom 'Evolution' may one day trace our present race." It is invited todo so now, now that this hint is explained quite openly; but Evolutionists are as sure to[

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• all things in nature.* . . . Job says, in chap. xxvi.5, that "dead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof." In the original text, instead of "dead things," it iswritten dead Rephaim (giants or mighty primitive men), from whom "Evolution" may one day trace our present race.""In the primordial state of the creation," says Polier's Mythologie des Indous, "the rudimental universe, s

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• the ʺSpirit of God.ʺ Job mentions, in chap. xxvi., 5, that ʺdead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof.ʺ In the original text, instead of ʺdead things,ʺ it is written dead Rephaim (giants, or mighty primitive men), from whom ʺEvolutionʺ may one day trace our present race. In the Egyptian mythology, Kneph the Eternal unrevealed God is represented by a snake‐emblem of eternity e

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• The Theosophical Glossary 256 Just the same as it is now. Rephaim (Heb.). Spectres, phantoms. (Secret Doctrine, II., 279.) Resha‐havurah (Heb., Kab.). Lit., the “White Head”, from which flows the fiery fluid of life and intelligence in three hundred and seventy str

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• l things in nature.* . . . Job says, in chap. xxvi. 5, that "dead things are formed from under the waters, and inhabitants thereof." In the original text, instead of "dead things," it is written dead Rephaim (giants or mighty primitive men), from whom "Evolution" may one day trace our present race." "In the primordial state of the creation," says Polier's Mythologie des Indous, "the rudimental universe,

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• e mentioned as our predecessors, namely, in Volume I., p. 133, when speaking of the Book of Job. For what can be plainer than this: "In the original text, instead of 'dead things,' it is written dead Rephaim, giants, or mighty primitive men, from whom 'Evolution' may one day trace our present race." It is invited to do so now, now that this hint is explained quite openly; but Evolutionists are as sure to

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• nd although the reference isevidently to the Philistines and Phœnicians, as well as to the hewers of the great artificial caves, it is possiblethat the latter, who are referred to in the Bible as the Rephaim or Anakim, were originally the "Fenish" andthe Egyptian "Fenkhu". Ahmes may have followed the example of his temple− and pyramid−buildingpredecessors in drawing fresh supplies of skilled stoneworkers

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• The Theosophical Glossary 256 Just the same as it is now. Rephaim ( Heb .). Spectres, phantoms. (Secret Doctrine , II., 279.) Resha ‐ havurah ( Heb., Kab .). Lit., the “White Head”, from which flows the fiery fluid of life and intelligence in three hundred and seve

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• tature to the size of an ordinary man". The antediluvian Patriarchs and the Sumeri an kings were part saurian, were apparently very large men and stood out physically among the hordes of mankind. The Rephaim, the descendants of the Nefilim who lived after the Deluge, were also giants; and like the

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• oted in the memory of the cruel rule of the Hyksos kings who systematically dest royed Egyptian culture and monuments. We shall see that these hated people were none other than the descendants of the Rephaim, the offspring of the antediluvian Nefilim, who ruled the lands of the Middle East after the Deluge. SERPENT - GODS IN AMERICAN AN D AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY Among the Mayas of Central America, snake symbol

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• out, and any vestige of reptilian ancestry in man was considered to be a "badge of shame". Melchisedek was whisked away by the deity in order to prevent the people from killing him. * Chapter 9 THE REPHAIM: WARRIOR - GODS OF THE WESTERN LANDS "The offspring of the alliance between the angels and the Canaanite women were the giants, known for their strength and their si nfulness. They have many names; s

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• specially to Nannar/Sin who was the legitimate overlord of these lands. When their cities in the Transjordan and els ewhere were destroyed by the eastern kings who invaded in the 21st Century BC, the Rephaim lost all fealty to legitimate authority and became an independent martial force in the Western Lands. They then became a formidable and uncontrollable force that dom inated and plagued the people of

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• Page 78 of 170 The tablets concern a summons to attend a great banquet being given at an unspecified place to honour their gre at chief god El. It describes how the Rephaim prepare their horses and chariots, and after travelling for two days, arrive the next day at the site of the feast. A great number of animals are slain for the banquet, and vast quantities of wine ar

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• Page 79 of 170 The Scriptu res make it clear that the Rephaim were the descendants of the Nefilim and that they were giant ferocious warriors who dominated the Western Lands for two thousand years with their superior iron weapons and chariots and that their for

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• Page 80 of 170 The famous Samson w as probably also a Rephaim. While the Old Testament dotes on his fabulous accomplishments, his size is not given. In the Haggadah, however, he is called a "rph" or giant. Born near Beth Shemesh in Lebanon, his name is clearly

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• cities of the west were defended this way. It meant that there was a common culture or organisation, which bound all these cities together. This common bond was the military engineering genius of the Rephaim. This type of defence was found at Beth - Shean, Shechem, Gezer, Megiddo, Hazor, Saruhen, an d many other cities in Palestine. They are also found in Anatolia and northern Syria at Alalakh, Karchemis

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• Page 82 of 170 TRANSJORDAN, HOME OF THE EASTERN REPHAIM When the kings of Mesopotamia invaded Palestine in 2085 BC, they passed by way of Damascus, then followed the King's Highway, which ran south to Elath on the Gulf of Aqaba. This route brought them up

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• Page 83 of 170 In Deuteronomy, Og is called the last of the Rephaim, and particular mention is mad e of his huge stature as shown by the size of his bedstead, which measured nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It was captured by the Israelites and put on display i

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• r they were hard - pressed and very close to def eat. This was but one of a series of battles with the Amalekites. The migrating force led by Moses was harassed continuously by the descendants of the Rephaim as it is recounted in Deuteronomy 25:

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• ugh the Transjordan. [Comment: As has been noted, the term "forty" something, as in 40 years , was merely a contemporaneous colloquialism that meant "many years" or "a long time".] Settling among the Rephaim and their allies, the Hebrew tribes remained at the mercy of the Amalekites and their allies for the period of 400 years, known as the time of the Judges. [Comment: It is stated in The Bible that the

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• e land to devastate it. So Israel became utterly destitute". For over four hundred years the Amalekites and their allies ruled this way, the Hebrew tribes never knowing when the ferocious sons of the Rephaim would break out of their cities and attack the settlers. From their capital city at Avaris they could explode into the Negev and devastate that area at will. Josephus describes the citadel of the Hyk

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• area around Kadesh - Barnea seems to have been of major importance in ancient days. It appears to be one of the goals of the invading kings in the year 2085 BC. After defeating the fortresses of the Rephaim in the Trans - Jordan, they then crushed "the Horites in the hill country of Seir, near El - Paran, which is on the edge of the wilderness. They swang back to En - Mishpat (now Kadesh) and subdued al

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• presumably saw also the glacis - type fortresses of the Anakim. At Kadesh the news was badly received by Moses who now realised that his small disorganized army could not conquer the remnants of the Rephaim. From here, a group of the tribal l eaders decided to attempt a foray into the land of Canaan and they were soundly defeated at Hormah. This marked the end of their attempts to penetrate directly int

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• e allies of the Anakim. Thus, the grand strategy of Adad was to defend the land and particularly the space complex in the northern Sin ai. The strategy was threefold: 1. A string of fortresses of the Rephaim in the Trans - Jordan defended the approach known as the King's Highway. They were believed to be impregnable. 2. The approach through the Jordan Valley was protected by the armies of the five cities

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• mmu invaded the Western Lands. This must have been a formidable army, revealed in the Haggadah as numbering 800,000, they easily penetrate d the Trans - Jordan and destroyed the fortifications of the Rephaim. The rapidity, with which they passed through this heavily defended area strongly indicates the use of special mass destructive weapons supplied by their deity Sin [Prince Nannar Hermes Th oth] . [Co

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• e the city of Sodom to protect it from a direct assault through the Jordan Valley. Abraham led his own forces and Egyptian troops southward to Hebron, at tha t time a strong citadel of the Anakim, or Rephaim [Anunnaki] . Here he received support from the Anakim generals Mamre, Eshkol, and Aner. It is noteworthy that Abraham did not deploy his forces north of Jerusalem, which is the logical place to defen

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• Page 153 of 170 The third possible approach to the Sinai was through the Trans - Jordan. Adad and Abraham relied heavily on their formidable Rephaim allies, which controlled that mountainous region, which was the location of the main trade route known as the King's Highway. Protected by a string of fortified bastions, this area was be lieved to b

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• h - Shean, Beth - Nimrah, and En - Gedi, protecting the vital approaches of the north and west. On the eastern side, a natural mountain barrier was supplemented by a number of fortified cities of the Rephaim. In the southern part of the Valley of Siddim, the bitumen pits formed a natural obstacle. THE ORIGIN OF THE DEAD SEA Geological and historical evidence indicates that the lower Jordan Valley in the

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• ize or destroy the space facilities at Mount Sinai and Kade sh, which had come under the control of Adad, to punish the cities of the valley who had rebelled, and to destroy the warrior god race, the Rephaim, who had also refuted their traditional allegiance to the east and thus presented a serious military threat to the empire. Genesis is quite unique in that it provides a description of the expedition

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• outh as the invaders entered the valley. He would then have been in a position to execute a classic pincer movement, bottling the valley at both ends. Abraham plainly expected the defence line of the Rephaim to hold the invaders or at least to slow them down. Later, he probably assumed that Lot and the armies of Sodom and Gomorrah could defend the narrow valley. It is also possible that Abraham expected

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• es of the Valley of Siddim had returned to the aegis of the Mesopotamian kings and enjoyed prosperity under the tutelage of Shulgi. After the events of 2085, Abraham and his retinue settled among the Rephaim at Mamre near Hebron. Here he complained in an exchange with Yahweh or Adad that he had no offspring to continue the family line. Adad promised him a male heir and soon Ishmael was born of his Egypti

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• The rui n of the Valley of Siddim was the last of much devastation in the lands of the Levant. Earlier the cities of Ebla and Arman and the land of Lebanon had been destroyed. Then the cities of the Rephaim in the Trans - Jordan, the Mount Sinai/Kadesh complex and t he defensive citadels of southern Palestine. Now the five cities of the Valley of Siddim disappeared in a fiery cloud and the land eventual

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• They displayed certain characteristics, which set them apart from ordinary people - large patches of scaly skin referred to as "the badge of priesthood," and probably had horns and chin whiskers. The Rephaim or warrior gods, the descendants of the antediluvian Nefilim, who prot ected the Middle East later, were large and fearsome warriors and probably exhibited many of the characteristics of their forebe

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• without experiencing them in your own kingdom. Therefore, he offered the opportunity to explore nuclear consciousness. When the nuclear facility was detonated, once installed the ark in the temple of Rephaim in Sodom and Gomorrah, many others, such as Abraham Were claimed on your realm to play various roles in that stellar introduction of elements. I, Enoch, I chose then a human incarnation. We wanted to

• theirdestruction.The word ‘Anaqim, sons of Anak, is found in the Bible as a name for a populationof tall humans in southern Palestine near Hebron and to the east of Jordan (thelatter are also called Rephaim). The word ‘anaq means “necklace” or “long-neck.”The Anakim allegedly wore neck chains and had long necks. It would not befar-fetched here to suspect an etymological connection with Anunnaki! The son

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• . Gabrie l appeared to the Virgin Mary alerting her of the birth of the Christ Child Je sus. In 600 A.D. she vi sited Muhammad dictating Koran to him. She is a Seraphim , meaning serpent of Raphim or Rephaim another Nephalim Hybrid connection. Gabriel used the caduceus rod to translate the soul of Chri st along with “the Holy Ghost” into the body of Mary. It helps to see this as advanced technology of Sp

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• forces for selfish means. Reason 148: Since their plans have reached completion they are now prepared to tell the world bluntly about their involvement with Angels, Demons, Baalim, Gregori, Nephalim, Rephaim, and who knows what else. We can assume there are always things that will not be talked about until they happen, just as its never good to tell anyone your desires before they come to pass. Be watchf

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• y they are using is to give you two choices in which both are no good. The word Democratic tak ing its root from the Arabic word Demos or Demon and Republican taking its root from the word Reptile or Rephaim. So the choice is Reptiles or Demons you choose. To prove this one simply has to note how many times leaders and Presidents have been photographed making th e sign of Baphomet the Goat God of Mendes.

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• Riders of the Clouds 165 mistress of the Rephaim (the "Healers"), the lifele ss body of Ba'al was flown back to the peak of Zaphon, and placed in a cavern. Quickly, the two goddesses summoned the Craftsman o f the Gods, also referred to as El Kesse

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• vation chambers (such as the temple built in Lagash by Gudea, the Caracol in Chichen Itza) served to observe the zodiacal constellations. Other structures, involving stones erected in circles (Gilgal Rephaim on the Golan, Stonehenge in England) were oriented to observe solstices. Twin-towered temples co-oriented with an observation post (such as in the Aztec capital) were built to observe equinoxes; and

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• Riders of the Clouds 165 mistress of the Rephaim (the “Healers”), the lifeless body of Ba’al was flown back to the peak of Zaphon, and placed in a cavern. Quickly, the two goddesses summoned the Craftsman of the Gods, also referred to as El Kessem—

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• : And there was yet another battle at Gath, and there appeared yet another giant; and he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all, for he too was a descendant of the Rephaim.’” “Are you suggesting that we have something in common with the giants of the biblical tales?” “Of course,” Eli said. “The phenomenon is known to modern medi- cine as polydactyly, where a small extr

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• ans we are eligible for immortality!” “ Immortality ? You must be joking.” “Not at all,” Eli said. “I’m dead serious.” “Just because we were born with a sixth finger?” Because we are descended of the Rephaim, among other things. . . . Do you know what this biblical word means?” “No.” It literally means ‘the Healers.’ They are mentioned in the Bible several times as the extraordinary residents of certain

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• ircumstances, he refused. So, to entice him, Anat promised to obtain immortality for him.” “Immortality through rejuvenation. Eternal youth. Was that it?” “Yes,” Eli replied. “The divine trait of the Rephaim, passed along genetically to their descendants, revealed by the sign of the sixth finger!” “Tell me more,” Astra said. “All there is to know.” He came closer to her and with his hand lifted her chin

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• : And there was yet another battle at Gath, and there appeared yet another giant; and he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all, for he too was a descendant of the Rephaim.’” “Are you suggesting that we have something in common with the giants of the biblical tales?” “Of course,” Eli said. “The phenomenon is known to modern medi- cine as polydactyly, where a small extr

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• ans we are eligible for immortality!” “ Immortality ? You must be joking.” “Not at all,” Eli said. “I’m dead serious.” “Just because we were born with a sixth finger?” Because we are descended of the Rephaim, among other things. . . . Do you know what this biblical word means?” “No.” It literally means ‘the Healers.’ They are mentioned in the Bible several times as the extraordinary residents of certain

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• ircumstances, he refused. So, to entice him, Anat promised to obtain immortality for him.” “Immortality through rejuvenation. Eternal youth. Was that it?” “Yes,” Eli replied. “The divine trait of the Rephaim, passed along genetically to their descendants, revealed by the sign of the sixth finger!” “Tell me more,” Astra said. “All there is to know.” He came closer to her and with his hand lifted her chin