Cain’s hate made him the first
casualty of the war. He escaped with his life, but he had gone beyond the reach
of Grace, and he was a fugitive from the justice owed to the Sons of God.
Haunted, hunted, and alone,
Cain, the Spear gathered a band of marauders and plundered his way east, away
from the face of his father Adam.
His band formed a brotherhood of
eight, but God hinted that they needed a glyph…a symbol…a sign that said:
Fear us or die, for we are loyal
to No God! Harm one, and seven will take revenge.
We are:
N E P H I L I M
The Fallen.
Chalcolithic Gangstah Posse
They hid their camps in the
stony foothills up and down the eastern edge of Eden . From there, the Nephilim marauders
could raid, then "provide protection to" any village in their reach. Their way of life also gave them ample opportunity to strike at any band of migrants or
traders who wandered too close.
Eventually the Nephilim built a walled city. Cain, the first warlord from among the Sons of God called the city Enoch after his son, whose name means
dedicated.
This Enoch was the
beginning of a Nephilim dynasty that lasted for four more generations of first
sons.
The Nephilim were notorious. Even the Sons of God knew that Cain’s gr-gr-great grandson Lamech
boasted to his two wives, Adah and Zillah, that if Cain was avenged seven times
then he would be avenged seventy times seven (he’d need an army of marauders to
do that).
Cousin Lamech was the worst. He claimed he killed a man and a boy just for striking him. My question is; why would a man and a
boy attack Lamech, the Big Man of the Nephilim?
Even if they didn’t know who he
was, Lamech (his name means powerful) was obviously not someone a man and a boy
would attack just because they felt like it. I’m thinking they were motivated
by some atrocity on Lamech’s part. It could be he was looking to expand his territory and demanded more than his protection was worth to them. My money says it had something
to do with his victim’s women.
Lamech had at least three sons and one daughter; two sons by Adah (ornament), and a son and a
daughter by Zillah (shade).
Adah’s sons were among the first
tribes of people we call pastoral nomads. Their names were Jabal (stream of
water) and Jubal (stream). Jabal was the “father of those who live in tents and
have livestock.” Jubal was the “father of all those who play the lyre and
pipe.”
Zillah’s son was named
Tubal-Cain (thou will be bought of the spear) he is called the “forger of all
implements of bronze and iron.” His sister’s name was Naamah (loveliness).
It seems that by the seventh generation from Adam, the mobile Nephilim had acquired a degree of recognition among the various infant cultures scattered throughout Eden.
Warlords, Wars, Rulers and Death
I'll give twenty bucks to the first one to figure out who the Nephilim remind me
of.
Peace Out Y’all.
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