>>13063185The Hebrew Bible was composed from two libraries of religious texts. Those of a priesthood worshipping the titanic sea God of primordial darkness, creation and destruction whose emblem was the world serpent (called Levites, for Leviathan, the god is Iahu who was changed to Yam in Ugarit, and later Yahweh in Israel).
The second library belonged to a priesthood that worshipped Baal Hadad the Canaanite version of Apollo, and the group of gods he belonged to was the Elohim, the Canaanite Olympians.
The Hebrew Bible creators took these two libraries and, in 280BC, picked, chose and rewrote parts to consolidate them into a single religious system that supported a new priesthood at Jerusalem. They even added shit from Greek legends to tie up loose ends.
Now, by around 180 BC there was a priesthood crisis among these people and some became outsiders. These outsiders became an opposition party, and among them were preserved texts from before the 280 BC consolidation and editing. They also engaged in writing new texts as their beliefs evolved.
The Book of Enoch (first) was a text belonging to a group of Assyrian "Israelites" living in the land called Gilead, today called Hauran in Syria. They were called Itureans at the time which comes from Asturean, a name for Assyrians.
The "watchers" are the ancient folk gods of the Lebanon/Damascus region, and this was the original homeland of the Assyrian nobility. The "Giants" are how they described the gods of Canaan and Babylon. The whole point of the story is that they allowed their ancient folk religion to become intermingled with Babylonian beliefs while Assyria ruled Babylon.
However, by the second Book of Enoch, these people were now engaged in Babylonian mysticism and Jewish Gnosticism. They invented the idea that the world spirit Adam Kadmon would incarnate as avatars, often coming in the form of the messiah. At some point they decided that one avatar had redeemed the spiritual world. Christianity was born.
