Appetite of Giants
"The Book of Watchers, the Animal
Apocalypse, Jubilees, and the Book of Giants present the insatiable appetite of the
giants as the key for understanding their crimes, which include murder,
anthropothphagy and the consumption of blood. Blood plays a major role in the retribution
by the angels against them. This phenomena is true in all the works of the Cree by Norman Brown, The Wishing Bone Cycle, etc. and all of the Abenaki tales of Ken Morrison. the Embattled Northeast, the Solidarity of Kin, what Mennonites called long before the Bloody Theatre of principalities and powers.
The appetite of the giants reflects the payback of their bodies and destroyed spirits. They are ravenous but can no longer eat. Overwhelming hunger remains the twin themes of appetite and consumption in other Enochic texts that reformulate the Watchers story, including Jubilees, the Book of Giants and the Animal Apocalypse 3, where the impossibility of eating occurs, the punishment of the giants forced to exist as spirits that cannot eat.
Goff: I also
speculate about the ancient Near Eastern literary background of the trope
of destructive consumption
In the Syncellus text the giants are divided into “three kinds”(γένα τρία; :) and are given a lead role in the
introduction of illicit revelation
to the world 21
--the giants’ appetite is the key factor motivat-ing their
destructive activities. They begin by eating the toil of the humans.12 When
this is insufficient, they eat the humans themselves.
--the extraordinary amount of food and drink consumed by the
Canaanite king Og, who is regarded as a giant in Deut is described in the
late rabbinic work Tractate Sopherim(b; Soncino edition) 26
--In a Freudian twist on the consumption trope, the text envisions
a violent scene in which the giants fight with and eventually eat their fathers
the Watchers, who are imagined as bulls once they descend to earth:“And all the
bulls feared them [the elephants, camels and asses] and were terrified before
them, and they began to bite with their teeth and devour and gore with their
horns. And they began to devour those bulls, and look, all the sons of the earth
began to tremble and quake before them, and to flee” ( En 86:5–6). 28"
These call all change form into their opposite, so
--We have this first hand evidence besides legends of incubus
and succubi in the Romantics, tales of Zeus and Apollo taking women and making
demigod half breeds, and at that these are all worthwhile experiences for the
women, enveloped in showers of golden light, promises of ecstasy and transcendence.
So these aren’t presented as monsters but what we would all aspire too, to be
have intercourse with the gods. The products aren’t bloodthirsty terrors but
heroes, men of renown. So when we read in the Genesis text that these are men
of renown that gets our respect and so it goes until we develop something more
than childhood awe, for that is the programming of the human race, so easily
suggested and controlled. Don’t you want to be a god yourself? Asks the guru.
Sure just take some of this potion, psychedelic and then from Ginsburg smoke
dope smoke dope smoke dope as the train leaves the station and little neighborhood
parties of DMT spring up for personal
enlightenment. The Greek experience for the masses. Canada legalizes it. Not
only that but the highest repositories of wisdom in academia and in philosophy
and history teach the paths of this
wisdom of transcendence, as do the religions. Just look in Krishna’s eye to see
the universe.
Smithsonian destroys 10,000 Giant remains in 1900
Giants are first ideas, not buildings, but the effects are similar, but not the nostrums of fantasy. As Tolkien says of faerie dragons, "I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood." (Tree and Leaf, 41).
Among the many pics of gigantomy there is little explanation of the war or the monster camp. Piecing together parts of it from Nemrut Dagi, Alcyoneus was the eldest of the Thracian Gigantes of Greek mythology who led a major rebellion against the Olympian Gods. Athena against Alkyoneus is designed to prevent understanding. Look at the incomprehension on the faces of crowds and firefighters in the lobby of South Tower which changes to knowledge in a short hour. The giants collapsed around them.
That's an analogy of buildings to giants and malevolent intent. If the real has turned to fantasy then that fantasy is real, even if intruding. Distinguishing child from adult in this, Tolkien asks "if adults are to read fairy-stories as a natural branch of literature...what are the values and functions of this kind?" He answers that they offer in peculiar degree Fantasy, Recovery, Escape, Consolation, all things of which children have, as a rule, less need than older people" (46). So how do we read real stories? As Masked. So C. S. Lewis subtitles his third novel, a modern fairy tale for grown-ups. But it is journalism.
Gigantomachy takes each element of the equation as it comes in view, changing before the eyes. Change is important to the giant, but it hardly matters which opposites it structures upon chaos, whether faerie stories, ideas or buildings first, or religious-political movements, governments like twin towers, corporate conglomerates, universities, or giants demythologized as robots. Giants embody everything you think is true (unless you are one of the few), but they are not what you think. These together turn the ship, open the flood gates to occupy. That's no joke. Go downtown after the collapse but take a gun. The political tower will be the first one down. Then the 200 million will be unleashed. How do we know? Isaiah again. Why can't we just see? Because the real has become fantasy. Will, consciousness, ideal, real, subconsciousness, the imagination. Originally the guy said, open the window and fly yourself out of the flybottle, but now you first want to know...[and then like the Pied Cow of Nietzsche you forget the question] what is it you want to know?
St. Matthew says Jesus' conception by the Holy Ghost was first spoken by Isaiah, "the virgin shall be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Immanuel." But he keeps on saying. From 7.14 he goes to 9.6-7, "of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end," and then to 11.1-2, " the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding." It's not just a text, it's an ongoing theme, but scholars can't believe that text or theme, the real having become fantasy some time ago.
Here: Reading:
Transhumanism: Genetic Manipulation Tom Horn, Steve Quayle. Five hours taking seriously transhuman opposition. They were able to burn down one of their opponents when name calling didn't work, On Wrestling With A Pig,
The Concept of Existential Risk. Nick Bostrom. Oxford, 2011. Posits every possible Existential Risk except singularity! Which he did in 2004 when Mark Studdock was at Oxford in That Hideous Strength: A Fairy Tale for GrownupsLeon Kass. The Wisdom of Repugnance. Also, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity. 2002.
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