#gibborim

[agreenroad]

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BOOK OF GIANTS DETAILS ANTE-DILUVIAL FALLEN SONS OF GOD/WATCHERS, TURNED INTO NEPHILIM, GIBBORIM, REPHAIM

The "Book of Giants" is contained in this work…Qumran and Apocalyptic bt Florentino Garcia Martinez📖 https://t.co/gtvsQdZL8dfree to borrow from the Internet Archive pic.twitter.com/sTCXq4fxHD— Steph Kent (@covertress) April 30, 2024 THE BOOK OF GIANTS USED TO BE IN THE BIBLE, BUT GOT PULLED OUT; WHY? Fallen Angel Demonology Explained in Obsessive Detail | Mr. Mythoshttps://t.co/LlaGQWT89fA…

[ewingstan]

There's something that itches at my brain about Khonsu getting named after an Egyptian god. The original three Endbringers were all named after Hebrew monsters in ways that roughly aligned with their image and abilities (the Simurgh also being called "Ziz" from what I remember.) They follow that naming pattern with Tohu and Bohu. But then for Khonsu they go Egyptian? Are you telling me there isn't some suitable Abrahamic apocrypha that you can use for this guy?

And then they go and call the Dauntless Titan "Kronos" and I think fine, sure, its a titan not an endbringer—only for Amy to christen the Chevalier titan the "Gibborim Knight," returning to the Hebrew-mythology naming convention! So now we have two monsters that feel off-pattern!

[thepartyponies]

"they’re doing that with humans and Kandahar/Gilgamesh dna" what does this Mean

I had a whole long thing all typed out but the app refreshed and I lost it all. Let’s see how much I can redo.

It’s a pretty fun rabbit hole to go down.

The fact that the technology exists to take an extant species like a wolf and successfully splice in genes from an extinct genetically similar but physically superior species to bring out those traits in a living organism, would create the possibility that the process could be applied to humans, if tissue samples from such a physically superior humanoid species could be acquired.

The US military has reportedly recovered the bodies of at least two superhumans. The first being the body of the legendary GiIgamesh from his tomb that was discovered in Iraq shortly before the invasion (coincidence?), and the second being the body of the polydactyl giant from the Kandahar province of Afghanistan who was killed after attacking American soldiers who approached his mountain cave looking for TaIiban. I’ve heard of at least two more demigod bodies, of RomuIus and 0siris iirc, but without as many corroborating accounts.

During the whole Hilary email server fiasco an email was discovered that mentioned GiIgamesh by name. Putin once said he was more worried about supersoldiers than nukes. Other Russian officials have claimed to have captured genetically augmented enemy soldiers in Ukr aine. Grains of salt etc etc but those data points exist.

If you want to bring in eschatoIogical speculation, the figure described in Revelation 17:8,11 who “once was, now is not, and yet will come” could be Gilgamesh, who some identify as the biblical Nimrod, who is described as having “began to be a gibborim(mighty man) on the earth” That italicized term is first used in reference to the half-human/angel hybrid nephilim race from Genesis 6 and the conquest of Canaan, which is presumably where a demigod giant like Gilgamesh would have somehow inherited such traits from.

Then there’s the possible interpretation/implication of Matthew 24:37 “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” Some take the angle that these two most severe instances of divine judgment on earth are both precipitated by genetic manipulation to corrupt the human genome and turn humanity into something other. That would circle back around to the very first temptation, to “be like the gods” and would give some pretty interesting implications/context for Revelation 9:6, “During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.” It could be that the Mark includes a genetic enhancement of angelic/hybrid dna. In a perverse counterfeit of the Gospel, the son of the Dragon gives his blood(gene therapy) to supposedly save/elevate humanity, but really he’s just trying to steal the human birthright of dominion over the earth and turn people into weapons to fight the armies of heaven with at the last battle.

Wacky crazy stuff that could definitely be way off in any number of areas, but it’s one way to fit some of these breadcrumbs together.

[hadesisqueer]

Bad thing about Alex's return and the Gibborim kids showing up right after the Deanoru kiss thing is that we never got anyone's reaction to them being a couple now lol. Idk imagine if the Alex and Gibborim thing happened a couple of days later or something and those two hadn't been interrupted and the next morning they go downstairs to have breakfast holding hands and end up announcing stuff lmao. Or even funnier, when they get to the Hostel at night they go upstairs together giggling and kissing and trying to be silent and shit while getting to their room and someone (probably Gert) catches them and the three of them are like 🧍‍♀️staring at each other for a second lmao. Imagine them not being distracted and shit for that week and finding out about the tabloid thing and being like🧍‍♀️lmao. Anyway the announcement and reactions of the others would've been funny and cute to see. At least we got Old Lace and Alex lmao

[mental-health-and-jesus]

6-19-2025 | Bible App Their Verse of the Day | 1 Corinthians ‭15‬:‭57

🕊️💛 “But thanks to Elohim who gives us the overcoming through our Master יהושע Messiah.” ‭Qorintiyim Aleph ‭15‬:‭57‬ ‭💛🕊️‬‬

Bible App | James 1:2-3

🕊️🩵 2: “My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3: knowing that the proving of your belief works endurance.” Ya‛aqoḇ‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭🩵🕊️

Bible App | Psalms 28:6-8 & 1 Corinthians 16:13-16 | Re-Reading 📖 Psalms 28: ⭐️ and 1 Corinthians 16:13-16

🕊️⭐️ 6: “Blessed be יהוה, Because He has heard the voice of my prayers! 7: יהוה is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him. 8: יהוה is the strength of His people, And He is the stronghold of deliverance of His anointed.” ‭‭Tehillim 28‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭⭐️🕊️

🕊️♥️ 13: “Watch, stand fast in the belief, be men, be strong. 14: Let all that you do be done in love. 15: And I urge you, brothers, you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and that they have assigned themselves for service to the set-apart ones, 16: that you also be subject to such, and to everyone who works and labours with us.”‭‭Qorintiyim Aleph 16‬:‭13‬-‭16‬ ‭♥️🕊️

Bible App | Isaiah 41:10

🕊️🪽 “Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall fortify you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.’” ‭‭Yeshayah 41‬:‭10‬ ‭🪽🕊️

Bible App | Matthew 5:14-16 & 6:9-13 & 6:25-26 & 6:30 & 7:11 | Re-Reading 📖 Matthew Chapter 5: to 7: Scripture 2009 Version

Chapter 5: 🩷

🕊️💗 14: “You are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain. 15: “Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house. 16: Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.” ‭‭Mattithyahu 5‬:‭14‬-‭16‬‭ 💗🕊️‬‬

Character 6: 🩷

🕊️💗 9: ““This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, 10: let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11: Give us today our daily bread. 12: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13: ‘And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’” ‭‭Mattithyahu 6‬:‭9‬-‭13‬‭ 💗🕊️

🕊️💗 25: ““Because of this I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat or drink, or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than the food and the body more than the clothing?” 26: “Look at the birds of the heaven, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly Father does feed them. Are you not worth more than they?” ‭‭Mattithyahu 6‬:‭25-26‬ ‭💗🕊️‬‬

🕊️💗 ““But if Elohim so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more you, O you of little belief?” ‭‭Mattithyahu 6‬:‭30‬ ‭💗🕊️

Character 7: 🩷

🕊️💗 ““If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!” ‭‭Mattithyahu 7‬:‭11‬ ‭💗🕊️

#Bible App | 1 Peter 1:13

🕊️🌇 “Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of יהושע Messiah,” ‭Kĕpha Aleph ‭1‬:‭13‬ ‭🌇🕊️‬‬

YouTube♥️ Channel Nathan Reynolds The Linen Railroad Video Title :Unlocking The Armory Becoming a Gibborim Part 16 | Bible App Hebrews Chapter 2: 🩷

🕊️🩵 1: “Because of this we have to pay more attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away. 2: For if the word spoken through messengers proved to be firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a right reward, 3: how shall we escape if we neglect so great a deliverance, which first began to be spoken by the Master, and was confirmed to us by those that heard, 4: Elohim also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Set-apart Spirit, distributed according to His own desire? 5: For it is not to messengers that He has subjected the world to come, concerning which we speak. 6: But somewhere one has witnessed, saying, “What is man that You remember him, or the son of man that You look after him? 7: “You have made him a little lower than Elohim. You have crowned him with esteem and respect, and set him over the works of Your hands. 8: “You have put all in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left none that is not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all subjected to him. 9: But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, יהושע, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone. 10: For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Prince of their deliverance perfect through sufferings. 11: For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12: saying, “I shall announce Your Name to My brothers, in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You.” 13: And again, “I shall put My trust in Him.” And again, “See, I and the children whom Elohim gave Me.” 14: Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil, 15: and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death. 16: For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers, but He does take hold of the seed of Aḇraham. 17: So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people. 18: For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.” Iḇ`rim‬ ‭2‬:‭1‬-‭18‬ ‭🩵🕊️

Bible App | 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 | Speaking Out Loud 🗣️ Walking Yah is With Us🧡

🕊️🌤️ 3: Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort, 4: who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim.” ‭‭Qorintiyim Bĕt 1‬:‭3-4‬ ‭🌤️🕊️‬‬

The Chosen Website 🐟 Video Title :Savoring the Passover Seder — and Understanding the Last supper | Bible App | Exodus 13:8 & 12:25-27 & 6:6-7 & Luke 22:15 & Jeremiah 31:31-32

🕊️🐟 ““And you shall inform your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of what יהוה did for me when I came up from Mitsrayim.’” ‭‭Shemoth 13‬:‭8‬ ‭🐟🕊️‬‬

🕊️🐟 25: ““And it shall be, when you come to the land which יהוה gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service. 26: “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’ 27: “then you shall say, ‘It is the Pĕsaḥ slaughtering of יהוה, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.’ And the people bowed their heads and did obeisance.” ‭‭Shemoth 12‬:‭25‬-‭27‬‭ 🐟🕊️‬‬ ‬‬

🕊️🐟 6: “Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am יהוה, and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their enslaving, and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments,” 7: and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And you shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites.” ‭‭Shemoth 6‬:‭6‬-‭7‬‭ 🐟🕊️‬‬ ‬‬

🕊️🐟 “And He said to them, “With desire I have desired to eat this Pĕsaḥ with you before My suffering,” ‭‭Luqas 22‬:‭15‬ ‭🐟🕊️‬‬ ‬‬

🕊️🐟 31: ““See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah, 32: not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I strengthened their hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.” ‭‭Yirmeyahu 31‬:‭31‬-‭32‬ ‭🐟🕊️

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LORD✝️ YHWH✝️ אֲדֹנָי✝️ אלוהים✝️ Is Always With You 💗

[annamarielabeau]

A Marvel Runaways animated series?!

This is probably far fetched but after a failed attempt at Marvel making a Runaways movie back in 2008 and the live action series being cancelled after three seasons in 2019.

Marvel has an opportunity to adapt more of their comic series into animated shows. After the recent success and fame of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur season 2. And Kevin Feige has a chance to make the other Netflix/ABC Marvel series to MCU canon.

Marvel’s Runaways first appearing in their issue on July, 2003. A group of teens discover their parents who are a part of Pride, a charity organization, are actually murderers when they witness them sacrificing a teenage girl. From then on they become the “Runaways” most of them discover they have powers or abilities. From super strength to a physic connection with a time traveling dinosaur, to amazing hacker skills.

With a series of comics featuring ninjas (who are also mutants), wizards, crime lords, time travelers, mad scientists, aliens while also all of it taking place on the West Coast, With similar animation to these series would be great!!

Now for how to mesh the comic and tv adaptations canon together.

All of the Pride’s original abilities should be the same as it is in the comics, so Frank and Leslie Dean are both aliens and Gene and Alice Hayes/Hernandez both have the X gene.

Karolina has a similar arc as she did in the series with her finding out her sexuality. Which leads to the start of Nico and Karolina’s relationship.

The Gibborim are featured more so they are more of a threat to the Runaways

Alex is the leader of the Runaways but eventually will betray the team as he does in the comics.

Klara Prast is featured. Therefore the time travel element of the Runaways is important. The same as it is with Old Lace and Gert’s death.

Similar to Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, this series would have MCU Easter eggs that don’t go far beyond on that.

Gert and Molly are not siblings in this version but still have their strong bond.

The found family trope is still very much present as it is one of the lovable and important things about the team.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

I'm so sorry if this feels like venting, i don't wanna be sad for Holy Week, but this week i've been with pretty dark thoughts and i can only hope this doesn't end up in one of my depressive episodes again. I was thinking about the theme of evolution, and how unless one is an anti science fundamentalist sooner or later we have to accept that there's a part of animal in us and that our evolution has played a part in it (leaving aside bad takes from evolutionary psychologists that fail to account cultural conditioning). And it made me think, cause many people may believe prehistoric humans were just very savage and that that's proof about how humans are fundamentally animals and that our instinct is just violent or in search of just usefulness, but there has been many discoveries that had challenged this view like how women in many groups had important positions or even hunted too, or like how they took care of disabled people as best as they could. Would God love the animal in us too? Is this just another part of seeing the body (and all the biology that surrounds it) just as important as the spirit? Is perhaps us wanting to have a soul an excuse for us to not think about being just animals? Again, i'm so sorry for this rambling, its just that i've felt like i'm broken or a mistake due to my autism. But perhaps just as prehistoric humans showed they were people too and tried to care of everybody, the Lord loves us so animal and all

Disclaimer: I am very tired lolll. Apologies if this isn't written well

Hello, Anonie! Don't worry this doesn't feel like venting at all, and even if it was, my anons are (usually) always open for venting. As for feeling sad on Holy Week: if my count is correct, today marks day 2 that Lazarus has been dead and in the grave; Saturday marks the day "Jesus wept". As does Sunday (according to Luke, Jesus wept while entering Jerusalem, right before he flipped the tables). Then he spent the rest of the week in high anxiety until having a meltdown Thursday and killing himself Friday. What I am trying to tell you is that this is a season of high emotions; don't deny yourself. You'll be recreated on the Day of the Lord.

As to you're question, however, well you actually asked a few. So to start with, yes ofc as a believer in science I do believe that there's an "animal" part to us. I mean scripture says as much tbh. On the firsthand we are made from dust (mortal) like the beasts: there is nothing special or unique about our makeup that makes us somehow above the beasts of the field. Beyond that however, the image of "humans becoming beasts" is a DEEP DEEP biblical image that begins in Genesis 3 and keeps going until the Revelation (having key culminations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Psalms, Daniel, and also Mark and Ephesians as well as others I am forgetting). Genesis 3 is quite easy: humans are supposed to live in peace with the wild beasts, but they are deceived by a beast (snake), and then become like wild beasts (Cain). The core image of humans as wild beasts is primarily used about kings and nations tho, not individuals. This is rooted Cain building the first city which leads to the Nephilim/Gibborim - violent warrior kings of glory and fame - who fill the land with violence and blood etc etc flood narrative (in which Noah is a New Adam who lives in a New Garden at peace with the animals!).

I feel like I've kind of gotten off on a tangent (as I am wont to do, esp about the Tanakh). The point is: the idea of humans as animals is deeply biblical. However, humans are said to be more than beasts, in a way. And ofc LOTS of speculation has been done as to what b'tzelem Elohim is all about: the (immaterial and immortal/preexistence??) soul, the spirit, psychology, rationality, speech, the capacity for relationship with the divine, etc etc etc. I think some of these are fine and some of these (*aggressively side eyes the soul*) are stupid Greek platonic σκύβαλον. The point, to me, is to say that there is nothing at all special about humans: they are dirt creatures from the ground made of flesh and filled with blood.

AND YET for some reason out of his divine love and sovereignty, God has chosen this species of dirt-creature to rule and reign as his royal prophet-priests by (1) subduing darkness and (2) recreating in life and goodness and beauty. So yes, humans are beasts. And yes, humans are the image of God. Read Psalm 8. That's the entire freaking point! But we are not royal prophet-priests for our own sake: kings are shepherds, and priests are servants. We are stewards of the created order, meant to work for God by serving all of creation (human and non-human, seen and unseen). I am a firm believer that survival of the fittest is the rule of the beasts (evolution is great; social evolutionism is evil) and that humans are neither perfectly good nor totally depraved. Out of all God's creation we have the greatest capacity for evil; out of all God's creation we have the greatest capacity for good.

Okay that was quite a bit (at least for me; it's been like an hour so far and I'm multitasking) but now I can get to like your actual questions lol.

"Would God love the animal in us too? Is this just another part of seeing the body (and all the biology that surrounds it) just as important as the spirit? Is perhaps us wanting to have a soul an excuse for us to not think about being just animals?"

Of course God loves the animal in us; he created it and when he looked at his creation he didn't just say it was good he said it was fabulous!!!! (yall better get that reference lmao) The way the biblical authors use the "humans are beasts" language is primordially bad once you get past Genesis 3 but we have to understand two things: first, the picture of animals in scripture is not all bad. And in Genesis 1 (where we should begin all our theology), animals are very good. Second this is a society in which the danger of getting attacked by wild beasts is pretty present. As such, yeah, lions and snakes and scorpions are all chaos monsters and thus comparable to tyrants and oppressors. At the same time, God created the leviathan to play in the waters of the sea (Psalm 104 - AMAZING PSALM YALL OH MY GOSH). God loves leviathan - read Job; leviathan will kill you without thinking about it, and one day the slithering serpent will be defanged, but that doesn't mean God doesn't love it. God loves all of his creation, and it is his love for it that leads him to transform it. Butterflies are a sacrament my friend. Not just for humanity but for all creation (read Romans 8). And ofc I have got to mention the Christmas card passage - Isaiah 11: it is an image of the New Creation (which started when Jesus rose on the Day of the Lord and will continue on for eternity amen and hallelujah) and in it all of creation - domesticated cattle and wild beasts, babies (seed of the woman) and snakes (!!!!) - is together in harmony. The animals are not kept out of creation because "well yall are wild and beastly"; God will bring apokatastasis - restoration - for ALL things. What "all" means is a subject of hot debate, but I take it to mean what it says. All. Including that which in this present age, enslaved as it is to Sin and Death and Decay, is wild and waste. It is the Spirit of Love and Liberty that hovers over the deep waters and creates life where at first there was death, peace where that was before violence.

And yes, the spirit is just as important as the body. (Here is where I admittedly go aside from mainstream Christian thought but) The "soul", the living "being", is the combination of the spirit - the breath, the mind/consciousness, the energizing presence that is gifted to us by God to bring inanimate matter to life, wtv you think it is - and the body - and the bodies experiences. Any denial of the material as being just as important as the immaterial is gnostic (and also usually oppressive in some way, whether racist or sexist or ableist or etc). And gnosticism is heresy. A tempting heresy for a religion that is both mystic and ascetic, but one to be resisted and adamantly at that.

Full disclosure: I do think that the desire to have a soul is rooted in a desire to be more than animals enslaved to death and decay. Gnosticism (in it's original form) was a protest movement: it stood in opposition to the imperial powers of it's day which tried to tell people who and what to be. The desire to have a secret, immaterial self, immortal and preexistent, unable to be killed by the empire, knowable only to myself by enlightenment is attractive. And also protest movements are fun! But it's ultimately just a way to sidestep the idea that we are mortal, dust and to dust you shall return. There is no natural immortality: you are enslaved to sin and death and the only immortality you can attain is a gift from God, the Father of Lights from whom all blessings flow, through Messiah Jesus, conqueror of death by death, in the Spirit, giver of life and liberty.

May the favor of our God and Lord Jesus the Anointed One be with you. May the God of Peace crush the adversary underneath our feet. May all creation be brought through fire and into light. Inshallah and amen.

[nekoannie-chan]

Picnic

Title: Picnic.

Fandom: Marvel, Runaways.

Ship: Tina Minoru X Robert Minoru (Love).

Word count: 237 words.

Square: 1 “Picnic.”

Rating: Teen.

Summary: Robert and Tina always talk about important decisions on a picnic.

Major Tags: Mention of Jonah.

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Robert and Tina Minoru decided to have a little date in the park—a picnic. They needed to talk about a very important issue; they had only been married for a few months, and things were not going well. However, a few days before, they had received a strange proposal.

They were eating sandwiches while looking at the trees in the park. Since they were dating, when they wanted to talk about something important or resolve a situation, they always went on a picnic.

“So... what do you think about what Jonah said?” Tina asked, breaking the silence.

“It sounds too ambitious; do you really think there's anyone who can have that much influence?” Robert sounded completely skeptical.

“He sounds like someone very powerful; just look at what he's doing with the Gibborim; I think it's an opportunity we can't afford to waste.”

“Do you think we can finally have the company we've always dreamed of?”

“Sure, he said it was easy; we just have to do what he asks us to do.”

The leaves on the trees began to fall, and Robert began to think that maybe his wife was right; they should accept; it didn't seem like they could lose anything; they didn't even have to lose; they could finally see their dreams come true.

Meanwhile, Tina wondered if it worked out what Jonah had proposed: don't forget to have picnics once in a while.

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I am a huge fan of Marvel’s Runaways so I am curious as to where you would put the Staff of One when it comes to power . In the show it seems to work like a miniature versions of the infinity stones able to essentially eat reality to your will but limited to its users power but what would its potential be with someone who has mastered it ? Also where would you put the The Gibborim on the galactic scale . They seem to be immortal and their technology seems light years ahead but they don’t seem to be very well know.

The Staff of One is a pretty interesting artifact: drawn upon and powered by blood, it can create almost any magical effect you can imagine, exactly once (per master). Attempting to perform the same spell twice will produce a completely randomized effect (kinda like a wild magic surge in D&D).

It does have a few limitations that keep it from becoming too dangerous to allow its existence; to name a few, it can't destroy the indestructible, kill the deathless (gods, for example), it can't (permanently) change the rules of the universe, and the staff itself, while very durable, is not unbreakable. Still, depending on the wielder's creativity, they may be able to bypass some of these limitations - for example, you couldn't shatter Cap's indestructible shield, but you could teleport it out of his hands and to the other side of the planet.

Furthermore the single spell limitation can be worked with; one spell may be used to produce a stream of flame, while another summons a fireball - though both create fire, they're considered separate concepts, and a creative caster may be able to use distinctions like that to their advantage. Lots of trial and error involved, as you might imagine. And even if you've somehow exhausted your creativity, the staff also serves as a magical focus, aiding in the use of "normal" magic.

As for the Gibborim, I guess the alien angle is something the show went for (I'm not very familiar with it, just the comics)? They're ancient gods here, primeval types that existed before established pantheons or religions were a thing. Their power has diminished considerably, which is why they require human sacrifices in order to grant boons to the Pride.

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{☄️💨🛸/🌫️✈️ 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏿}THE ANU Anunnaki translates as those who Anu sent from heaven to earth

They were also called NEPHILIM meaning To fall down to Earth, to land

{ELOHEEM}in the bible meaning These Beings.

In ashuric/syriac (arabic) they are called Jabaariyn meaning

the mighty ones

In Aramic (hebrew) Gibborim meaning The Mighty or Majestic ones

They are also called {NETERU}which is an Kemites term for Anunnaki.

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GIBBORIM A comission for a lovely peep from Reddit Emblem

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Antediluvian Period Civilizations; Huge Stone Structures Found All Over The World, From Before The Great Flood

ANTEDILUVIAN PERIOD DEFINED IN MANY BOOKS Wikipedia; “The antediluvian (alternatively pre-diluvian or pre-flood) period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne. The narrative takes up chapters 1–6 (excluding the flood narrative) of the Book of Genesis. The term found its way…

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Nephilim

The Nephilim are mysterious beings or people in the Hebrew Bible who are described as being large and strong. The word Nephilim is loosely translated as giants in most translations of the Hebrew Bible, but left untranslated in others. Some Jewish explanations interpret them as hybrid sons of fallen angels (demigods).

The main reference to them is in Genesis 6:1–4, but the passage is ambiguous and the identity of the Nephilim is disputed. According to the Book of Numbers 13:33, a report from ten of the Twelve Spies was given of them inhabiting Canaan at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan.

A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term, read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen" by others, appears in the Book of Ezekiel 32:27 and is also mentioned in the deuterocanonical books Judith 16:6, Sirach 16:7, Baruch 3:26–28, and Wisdom 14:6.

Etymology

The Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon (1908) gives the meaning of Nephilim as "giants", and holds that proposed etymologies of the word are "all very precarious". Many suggested interpretations are based on the assumption that the word is a derivative of Hebrew verbal root n-p-l "fall." Robert Baker Girdlestone argued in 1871 the word comes from the hif'il causative stem, implying that the Nephilim are to be perceived as 'those that cause others to fall down'. Ronald Hendel states that it is a passive form: 'ones who have fallen', grammatically analogous to paqid 'one who is appointed' (i.e., a deputy or overseer), asir 'one who is bound' (i.e., a prisoner), etc.

The majority of ancient biblical translations – including the Septuagint, Theodotion, Latin Vulgate, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, and Targum Neofiti – interpret the word to mean "giants". Symmachus translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's translation has been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or "the ones falling [upon their enemies]."

In the Hebrew Bible, there are three interconnected passages referencing the nephilim. Two of them come from the Pentateuch. The first occurrence is in Genesis 6:1–4, immediately before the account of Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:4 reads as follows:

Where the Jewish Publication Society's translation simply transliterates the Hebrew nephilim as "Nephilim", the King James Version translates the term as "giants".

The nature of the Nephilim is complicated by the ambiguity of Genesis 6:4, which leaves it unclear whether they are the "sons of God" or their offspring who are the "mighty men of old, men of renown". Richard Hess takes it to mean that the Nephilim are the offspring, as does P. W. Coxon.

The second is Numbers 13:32–33, where ten of the Twelve Spies report that they have seen fearsome giants in Canaan:

Outside the Pentateuch there is one more passage indirectly referencing nephilim and this is Ezekiel 32:17–32. Of special significance is Ezekiel 32:27, which contains a phrase of disputed meaning. With the traditional vowels added to the text in the medieval period, the phrase is read gibborim nophlim ("'fallen warriors" or "fallen Gibborim"), although some scholars read the phrase as gibborim nephilim ("Nephilim warriors" or "warriors, Nephilim"). According to Ronald S. Hendel, the phrase should be interpreted as "warriors, the Nephilim" in a reference to Genesis 6:4. The verse as understood by Hendel reads:

Brian R. Doak, on the other hand, proposes to read the term as the Hebrew verb "fallen" , not a use of the specific term "Nephilim", but still according to Doak a clear reference to the Nephilim tradition as found in Genesis.

Interpretations:

Giants

Most of the contemporary English translations of Genesis 6:1–4 and Numbers 13:33 render the Hebrew nefilim as "giants". This tendency in turn stems from the fact that one of the earliest translations of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, composed in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE, renders the said word as gigantes. The choice made by the Greek translators has been later adopted into the Latin translation, the Vulgate, compiled in the 4th or 5th century CE, which uses the transcription of the Greek term rather than the literal translation of the Hebrew nefilim. From there, the tradition of the giant progeny of the sons of God and the daughters of men spread to later medieval translations of the Bible.

The decision of the Greek translators to render the Hebrew nefilim as Greek gigantes is a separate matter. The Hebrew nefilim means literally "the fallen ones" and the strict translation into Greek would be peptokotes, which in fact appears in the Septuagint of Ezekiel 32:22–27. It seems then that the authors of Septuagint wished not only to simply translate the foreign term into Greek, but also to employ a term which would be intelligible and meaningful for their Hellenistic audiences. Given the complex meaning of the nefilim which emerged from the three interconnected biblical passages (human–divine hybrids in Genesis 6, autochthonous people in Numbers 13 and ancient warriors trapped in the underworld in Ezekiel 32), the Greek translators recognized some similarities. First and foremost, both nefilim and gigantes were liminal beings resulting from the union of the opposite orders and as such retained the unclear status between the human and divine. Similarly dim was their moral designation and the sources witnessed to both awe and fascination with which these figures must have been looked upon. Secondly, both were presented as impersonating chaotic qualities and posing some serious danger to gods and humans. They appeared either in the prehistoric or early historical context, but in both cases they preceded the ordering of the cosmos. Lastly, both gigantes and nefilim were clearly connected with the underworld and were said to have originated from earth, and they both end up closed therein.

In 1 Enoch, they were "great giants, whose height was three hundred cubits". A cubit being 18 inches (46 cm), this would make them 450 feet (140 m) tall.

The Quran refers to the people of Ād in Quran 26:130 whom the prophet Hud declares to be like jabbarin (Hebrew: gibborim), probably a reference to the Biblical Nephilim. The people of Ād are said to be giants, the tallest among them 100 ft (30 m) high. However, according to Islamic legend, the ʿĀd were not wiped out by the flood, since some of them had been too tall to be drowned. Instead, God destroyed them after they rejected further warnings. After death, they were banished into the lower layers of hell.

Fallen angels

All early sources refer to the "sons of heaven" as angels. From the third century BCE onwards, references are found in the Enochic literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Genesis Apocryphon, the Damascus Document, 4Q180), Jubilees, the Testament of Reuben, 2 Baruch, Josephus, and the book of Jude (compare with 2 Peter 2). For example: 1 Enoch 7:2 "And when the angels, (3) 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." Some Christian apologists, such as Tertullian and especially Lactantius, shared this opinion.

The earliest statement in a secondary commentary explicitly interpreting this to mean that angelic beings mated with humans can be traced to the rabbinical Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and it has since become especially commonplace in modern Christian commentaries. This line of interpretation finds additional support in the text of Genesis 6:4, which juxtaposes the sons of God (male gender, divine nature) with the daughters of men (female gender, human nature). From this parallelism it could be inferred that the sons of God are understood as some superhuman beings.

The New American Bible commentary draws a parallel to the Epistle of Jude and the statements set forth in Genesis, suggesting that the Epistle refers implicitly to the paternity of Nephilim as heavenly beings who came to earth and had sexual intercourse with women. The footnotes of the Jerusalem Bible suggest that the biblical author intended the Nephilim to be an "anecdote of a superhuman race".

Some Christian commentators have argued against this view, citing Jesus's statement that angels do not marry. Others believe that Jesus was only referring to angels in heaven.

Evidence cited in favor of the fallen angels interpretation includes the fact that the phrase "the sons of God" ("sons of the gods") is used twice outside of Genesis chapter 6, in the Book of Job (1:6 and 2:1) where the phrase explicitly references angels. The Septuagint manuscript Codex Alexandrinus reading of Genesis 6:2 renders this phrase as "the angels of God" while Codex Vaticanus reads "sons".

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies the Nephilim as Shemihaza and the angels in the name list from 1 Enoch.

Second Temple Judaism

The story of the Nephilim is further elaborated in the Book of Enoch. The Greek, Aramaic, and main Ge'ez manuscripts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees obtained in the 19th century and held in the British Museum and Vatican Library, connect the origin of the Nephilim with the fallen angels, and in particular with the egrḗgoroi (watchers). Samyaza, an angel of high rank, is described as leading a rebel sect of angels in a descent to earth to have sexual intercourse with human females:

In this tradition, the children of the Nephilim are called the Elioud, who are considered a separate race from the Nephilim, but they share the fate of the Nephilim.

Some believe the fallen angels who begat the Nephilim were cast into Tartarus (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6) (Greek Enoch 20:2), a place of "total darkness". An interpretation is that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to remain after the flood, as demons, to try to lead the human race astray until the final Judgment.

In addition to Enoch, the Book of Jubilees (7:21–25) also states that ridding the Earth of these Nephilim was one of God's purposes for flooding the Earth in Noah's time. These works describe the Nephilim as being evil giants.

There are also allusions to these descendants in the deuterocanonical books of Judith (16:6), Sirach (16:7), Baruch (3:26–28), and Wisdom of Solomon (14:6), and in the non-deuterocanonical 3 Maccabees (2:4).

The New Testament Epistle of Jude (14–15) cites from 1 Enoch 1:9, which many scholars believe is based on Deuteronomy 33:2. To most commentators this confirms that the author of Jude regarded the Enochic interpretations of Genesis 6 as correct; however, others have questioned this.

Descendants of Seth and Cain

References to the offspring of Seth rebelling from God and mingling with the daughters of Cain are found from the second century CE onwards in both Christian and Jewish sources (e.g., Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Augustine of Hippo, Sextus Julius Africanus, and the Letters attributed to St. Clement). It is also the view expressed in the modern canonical Amharic Ethiopian Orthodox Bible: Henok 2:1–3 "and the Offspring of Seth, who were upon the Holy Mount, saw them and loved them. And they told one another, 'Come, let us choose for us daughters from Cain's children; let us bear children for us.'"

Orthodox Judaism has taken a stance against the idea that Genesis 6 refers to angels or that angels could intermarry with men. Shimon bar Yochai pronounced a curse on anyone teaching this idea. Rashi and Nachmanides followed this. Pseudo-Philo (Biblical Antiquities 3:1–3) may also imply that the "sons of God" were human. Consequently, most Jewish commentaries and translations describe the Nephilim as being from the offspring of "sons of nobles", rather than from "sons of God" or "sons of angels". This is also the rendering suggested in the Targum Onqelos, Symmachus and the Samaritan Targum, which read "sons of the rulers", where Targum Neophyti reads "sons of the judges".

Likewise, a long-held view among some Christians is that the "sons of God" were the formerly righteous descendants of Seth who rebelled, while the "daughters of men" were the unrighteous descendants of Cain, and the Nephilim the offspring of their union. This view, dating to at least the 1st century CE in Jewish literature as described above, is also found in Christian sources from the 3rd century if not earlier, with references throughout the Clementine literature, as well as in Sextus Julius Africanus, Ephrem the Syrian, and others. Holders of this view have looked for support in Jesus' statement that "in those days before the flood they [humans] were ... marrying and giving in marriage" (Matthew 24:38, emphasis added).

Some individuals and groups, including St. Augustine, John Chrysostom, and John Calvin, take the view of Genesis 6:2 that the "Angels" who fathered the Nephilim referred to certain human males from the lineage of Seth, who were called sons of God probably in reference to their prior covenant with Yahweh (cf. Deuteronomy 14:1; 32:5); according to these sources, these men had begun to pursue bodily interests, and so took wives of "the daughters of men", e.g., those who were descended from Cain or from any people who did not worship God.

This also is the view of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, supported by their own Ge'ez manuscripts and Amharic translation of the Haile Selassie Bible—where the books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, counted as canonical by this church, differ from western academic editions. The "Sons of Seth view" is also the view presented in a few extra-biblical, yet ancient works, including Clementine literature, the 3rd century Cave of Treasures, and the c. 6th century Ge'ez work The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan. In these sources, these offspring of Seth were said to have disobeyed God, by breeding with the Cainites and producing wicked children "who were all unlike", thus angering God into bringing about the Deluge, as in the Conflict:

Arguments from culture and mythology

In Aramaic culture, the term niyphelah refers to the Constellation of Orion and nephilim to the offspring of Orion in mythology. However the Brown–Driver–Briggs lexicon notes this as a "dubious etymology" and "all very precarious".

J. C. Greenfield mentions that "it has been proposed that the tale of the Nephilim, alluded to in Genesis 6 is based on some of the negative aspects of the Apkallu tradition." The apkallu in Sumerian mythology were seven legendary culture heroes from before the Flood, of human descent, but possessing extraordinary wisdom from the gods, and one of the seven apkallu, Adapa, was therefore called "son of Ea" the Babylonian god, despite his human origin.

Arabian paganism

Fallen angels were believed by Arab pagans to be sent to earth in form of men. Some of them mated with humans and gave rise to hybrid children. As recorded by Al-Jahiz, a common belief held that Abu Jurhum, the ancestor of the Jurhum tribe, was actually the son of a disobedient angel and a human woman.

Fossil remains

Alleged discoveries of Nephilim remains have been a common source of hoaxing and misidentification.

In 1577, a series of large bones discovered near Lucerne were interpreted as the bones of an antediluvian giant about 5.8 m (19 ft) tall. In 1786, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach found out that these remains belonged to a mammoth. Cotton Mather believed that fossilized leg bones and teeth discovered near Albany, New York, in 1705, were the remains of nephilim who perished in a great flood. Paleontologists have identified these as mastodon remains.

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Runaways, Vol. 3: That Was Yesterday by Rainbow Rowell

"'What the-- who greenlit Gibborim 2: Electric Boogaloo?'"

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 3/5

Thoughts: Admittedly, I sort of lost enthusiasm for this volume right in the middle, but I don't think that's any fault of Rowell's. I had a lot going on in my personal life, some if it rather unfortunately tied to my love for comics, and I'll likely be taking a break from this series until the sting wears off and it's fun again. I'd hate to lose some books I love just because things in real life don't always work out.

All that aside, I think this is a pretty solid installment. I have a special love for Gib, so I really enjoyed seeing the Gibborim play a more amicable role in the story. It nicely brings some of the plot of the older Runaways comics into this one, and it feels very much like a loving homage. I'm also in love with the Doombot who befriends Victor Mancha's head and has all the funniest lines in this collection. Dr. Doom can be hit or miss depending on the characters and the story, but that brand of irreverent humor fits perfectly with the Runaways.

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Anthro Allies Remastered (Part 12)

Now for the Final Post for the Anthro Allies. we've seen the Animals Now we see The creatures that are placed in the stories

Object People, Food People, Toons, Automatons, Mythical Creatures, Ghosts, Spirits, Extraterrestrials, Higher Beings, (Angels, Demons, Nephilim's, Gibborims, Cambions, Nephalems, Godabi' s) & Primordial's and Gods

Objects People/Food People

Ortensia (Candy Person)

Jeovanni (Candy Person)

Wowser (Lego Fusion)

Jem (Homunculus)

Sally (Doll)

Timmy (Toy)

Toons

Enigma (Human Turned Toon)

Quiver (Human Turned Toon)

X'Eterra (I'Gaia & T'Oatari) (Toon Fusion)

Kieno (Playdoe toon)

Automatons

X.E.R.O. (Cyborg)

G.I.Z.M.O. (Cydroid)

Ignika (Android)

Patho-Gen (Virus)

Transmute (Technorganic)

Scott (Animatronic)

Gyro & Noid (Droids)

Lottie & Bolts (Bots)

Arsenal (Mech)

Proto (Giant Robot)

Mythical Creatures

Goboro (Golem)

Tulipia (Nymph)

Khemic (Substance Glob)

Vexus (Tetra Arm)

Baladar (Dragon)

Josephine (MothMen)

Tatsuo (Yokai)

Utara (Centaur)

Jamming (Sonar)

Yare (Builder)

Cetus (Sea Monster)

Mimi (Kaiju)

Ghosts and Spirits

Yondara (Spirit)

Nekros (Reaper)

Drocsid (Ghost)

Aura (Soul)

Noelle & Karol (Ancient Wendigo)

Oizta (Eldritch Horror)

Lore (Esoteric Being)

Aliens/Extraterrestrials

Blight

Vyoid

Orbit

Avula

EMP

Dyna

Quartz

Xytaxa

Gram

Yearn

Pymala

Yula

Higher beings

Primia (Angel)

Rampent (Demon

Clouduroy (Cherub)

Iza (Imp)

Bygone (Begone/Beyond) Nephalems

Zodiac (Harmony & Unity) Nephilim

Zenith (Cambion)

Vandalia (Gibborims)

Faye, Uto, Wallop, Zafu, Sentinel, Quickdraw, Knight, Frag, Xebec, Nynx

Primordial's and Gods

Paradigm (Celestial)

Iota (Ex God)

Ultra (Primordial)

Balance (Demi God)

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This was very fun to read and OP’s attention to detail is incredible. I will be delighted if some of this is revealed to be accurate in the third season. However, I see a few holes in this theory, and one of them is pretty fundamental.

I am putting on my Master of Divinity Degree hat. I agree with OP on Neil Gaiman’s skill as a writer, and one thing I love about Good Omens is all the religious stuff. GO is kind of religious fanfiction*, and I am impressed by the writers’ religious literacy and how loyal they are to the religious canons that they are drawing from. Of course they are putting BIG twists on things, but every change is for a reason. They aren’t misappropriating religious images and ideas willy-nilly and saying fuck the context.

My first correction is small. OP asked:

“Why was Crowley wearing sunglasses in the Job scene (2500BC) when he wasn’t wearing them in the two scenes bracketing it in the S1E3 cold open (the Flood and the Crucifixion)?”

I did not notice this! But I love that OP did and I think I know the answer, or at least part of it. In the Hebrew Bible, the story of the Great Flood marks a shift in eras and genres. In the time before the flood (AKA the antediluvian period), the setting and stories are more fantastical, with humans living hundreds of years, and mystical beings (Gibborim and Nephilim) walking around interacting with humans. Essentially, weird stuff was normal, and Crowley’s eyes may not have seemed out of place enough to bother hiding them. By Job’s time, special humans have occasional encounters with angels, but mystical beings are not just hanging out. I don’t have as satisfying of an answer for why he goes without glasses in the crucifixion scene. My guess is that Aziraphale and Crowley are keeping to themselves and not interacting with the humans, whose attention is obviously elsewhere. As opposed to in the Job minisode, where there’s a lot of interaction with humans.  

My second correction is more consequential. OP’s whole theory hangs on the idea that the Book of Life is something like a narrative of history and reality that can be controlled and rewritten by God and/or the Metatron, with great consequences for anyone whose storyline gets edited. I think OP’s concept of the BoL comes from Michael’s very brief reference to “Extreme Sanctions” and “Book of Life” on the phone with Beelzebub in E1, and the scene where Beelzebub snatches Crowley down to hell to try to intimidate him into helping Beelzebub find Gabriel:

B: According to what I’m hearing on a grapevine that obviously doesn’t exist, upstairs is seriously troubled about Gabriel’s disappearance. I’m hearing that anybody they find involved in this affair will be dealt with.

C: How?

B: Extreme Sanctions

C: That isn’t actually a thing? That’s just something we used to joke about to frighten the cherubs.

B: No, it exists. Extreme Sanctions. Anyone found involved in Gabriel’s disappearance will be erased from the Book of Life. They won’t just be gone—they will never have existed.

Here are the problems with believing Michael’s and Beelzebub’s take on how the Book of Life works:

Crowley says right there that it’s not true. I’m surprised he believed Beelzebub so easily.

We know now that Beelzebub is desperate to find the angel that they fell in love with, and is pulling out all the stops! Bribes and flattery didn’t work, so they switched to empty threats. Michael’s delivery of the line over the phone is very fishy. And you can hear in Beelzebub’s hesitations that they don’t entirely believe what they’re saying themself. Beelzebub’s elaboration on what it means to be erased from the BoL doesn’t come from Michael—it seems to be made up on the spot.

Most importantly, this is just not what the Book of Life is. In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Life is described as a book where the names of righteous people get written, indicating that they will be rewarded on the day of judgement (and go to heaven, or have eternal life, etc.) It’s a list of names—a guest list—not a narrative that controls reality. Getting your name erased would suck, but it wouldn’t mean you never existed. And there’s nothing else in it to edit or rewrite. The concept of a supernatural narrative of history and reality does exist in Good Omens—as “The Ineffable Plan.” I don’t believe that Gaiman would confuse these two things.

Now putting on my Bachelor of Googling and Bonus Content and Opinions hat for few little non-religion things:

Muriel shows off the book cover they’re reading because the author (Iain Banks) is a friend of Showrunners Neil and Douglas. (source: X-Ray trivia on E2)

OP asks why Aziraphale rejects Crowley’s offer of wine in the Job minisode. I believe this is just showing that Crowley manages to turn Aziraphale onto alcohol sometime between Job and WWII. David Tennant says in the “Biblically Good” BTS video: “[Crowley] doesn’t manage to introduce Aziraphale to wine that early on, although clearly that’s a part of their relationship that develops.”

The Blitz: Not strange that the theater as open, as this is the historic Windmill Theater, where notably, “performances continued throughout the Second World War even at the height of the Blitz.”

Aziraphale babbles about saving wee Morag instead of actually doing it, because the whole thing is a moral exercise to him, not real until it’s too late. When he thwarts Elspeth’s first sale attempt, he says, “I did a very good thing then,” and he would love to be able to say that about the whole situation. His preoccupation with his own moral purity and clean conscience ties him in knots and prevents him from acting fast enough to save Morag. This is the point of this whole Edinburgh story—that Aziraphale’s lofty sense of good and evil doesn’t work in reality and causes material harm to the most unfortunate humans. Also, is OP asking why the pub is called “The Resurrectionist” if no one actually got resurrected? Because “resurrectionists” is what body snatchers were called in the UK at that time.

I would be thrilled if Crowley’s discordant look in the Job minisode really is about the postdiluvian genre shift, but realistically it’s probably more an artistic choice. X-Ray trivia says that the design of the Job story is based on the biblical illustrations of Harold Copping, and Crowley’s costume is inspired by Moses’s look in The Ten Commandments (1956). Combined with his John Lennon-esque glasses and hair, he’s humorously evoking the 60’s/70’s aesthetics of hippies, the Jesus Movement, and even Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). His flood/crucifixion look just would not have gone with the more playful vibe of the Job minisode. If I took anything from the bonus content, it’s that the creators of this show are just as obsessed with obscure artistic and aesthetic references as they are with sneaky plot references. [Edit: Now I'm wondering if the flood/crucifixion look is inspired by Satan's look in The Passion of the Christ (2004).]

I know too many smart and well-meaning people brainwashed by corporate institutions to be surprised that even an Aziraphale with some growth and understanding under his belt would fall for the offer of “a promotion where you could make a difference.”

These holes in OP’s theory don’t necessarily mean that there’s no memory fudging going on though! It just cannot be to extent (and by the mechanism) OP described. The last reason being it would take a whole season's worth of exposition to cover all these reveals, and we would not have time to even address the hinted Second Coming. But Aziraphale and Crowley going up against doctored memories would be very dramatic and fun, and it would be so satisfying to see how they could prevail.

*We can’t truly call it “Bible fanfiction.” Some of it is based on the Hebrew Bible and Christian Bible, but some of it (Metatron) is based on Jewish Rabbinical writings, a lot of it (the heaven and hell, angels and demons stuff) is based on extra-biblical Catholic tradition, and a lot of it (the Armageddon plot in S1) is based on Futurist Christian Eschatology, a mainly Evangelical view which only got big in the 19th and 20th centuries, and which stretches and embellishes the Book of Revelation (this is my nice way of saying it is wrong).

The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

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