What is the idea of human history?
What were the first civilizations to set foot on our planet?
Our history is written by the notes of the winners. Of their power and influence over the centuries. But in a certain period of time, people from primitive hunters turned into intelligent civilizations that created monuments, calendars and ancient writings. All this has evolved to the present day and we are the descendants of some relatively intelligent beings.
But What If it’s Not That Simple?
What if the stories told by ancient civilizations, the tales of gods and angels, of giants and great disasters, were more literal than they first appeared? What if we received ancient knowledge beyond our human understanding?
If we look at some of the details, an entirely alternate history of the human race suddenly surfaces. One that completely overturns conventional knowledge and the history we’ve been taught. This version has mostly been consciously censored, forgotten, or worse – ignored. Until now!
In the beginning of 1946, in the area currently known as the West Bank, a group of Bedouin teenagers tend their sheep and goats near the ancient settlement of Qumran. To pass the time they toss around the stones they find strewn across the uneven desert terrain. When one of these stones is thrown into the dark side of a cave, the teenagers are shocked because they hear a loud shattering noise echoing inside.
When they decide to follow their curiosity, although slightly scared, they discover a collection of large clay pots. While not realizing it at the time, these teenagers make historical discovery of great importance. Inside the clay pots are hidden series of ancient scrolls.
Subsequently, various archaeologists, historians and treasure hunters found additional fragments of scrolls in 10 other caves in the area, bringing the total number of manuscripts found to almost 900. These manuscripts became known to the masses as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Strangely, among these manuscripts there are large portions of a mysterious non-canonical religious text long forgotten by human civilization? Or so they thought.
In our days, this text is known as the Book of Enoch.
In its entirety, the Book of Enoch consists of five books:
The Book of Watchers, The Book of Parables, The Astronomical Book, The Book of Dream Visions, and The Epistles of Enoch, containing about 100 chapters altogether.
These chapters tell the story of the 7th patriarch in the book of Genesis, Enoch, the father of Methuselah and the grandfather of Noah, the same Noah we know from the Bible.
However, this is not the biblical story of Noah’s ark.
In fact, the Book of Enoch provides an entirely different perspective on events
Leading up to the Great Flood of Noah’s time as that is a completely different story. It tells of the Watchers, explained in biblical terms as fallen angels, sent to earth to watch over humans at some unspecified and ancient point in time.
According to one of the earliest legends related to Enoch, he is the founder of the knowledge of astronomy and cosmography and is responsible for the compilation of the solar calendar.
The Bene Elohim or “the Sons of God” or “Gods” number several hundreds. They are said to descend on Earth at Mount Harmon. It was a sacred place for both the Canaanites and the Jews, who invaded their lands. In later times, sanctuaries of the gods Baal, Zeus, Helios, Pan and the goddess Astarte were built on its slopes.
And the term “Watcher” is used to describe “one who watches”, “those who watch”, “those who are awake” or “those who are not asleep”. These names reflect the unique relationship between the Watchers and the human race since ancient times. Over time, however, they abandoned their role as observers and began to have sexual contact with some of the humans (mostly women) and began to create what we now know as hybrids or crossbreds.
The Book of Enoch tells of the Nephilim – the children born through this very crossbreeding between the watchers and the humans. The Nephilim are described as “giants and savages who threatened and plundered mankind,” or, to put it another words, “supernatural, man-eating giants.”
Angered by what the Watchers had done, those described in the book as mighty gods sent the Watchers to an underground prison, deep within the bowels of the Earth. Enoch became the mediator between the gods and the imprisoned Watchers.
Let’s find OUT!!!
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Artificial intelligence has imagined the “face of Jesus Christ” from a cloth believed by some to have covered his body immediately after the Crucifixion.
The Shroud of Turin has long sparked debate, with supporters insisting they can see Christ’s visage imprinted on the fabric, while critics slam it as a medieval hoax. However, Italian scientists, using new technology, now reckon the 14-foot-long cloth could have originated from Jesus’ time.
AI has since been used to unveil the “true face of Jesus”. The Daily Express used Midjourney to conjure up a simulation of who many believe to be the man behind the shroud.
The generated snaps seem to portray Jesus sporting traditional long hair and a beard, complete with wounds that suggest he had just suffered his fatal ordeal.
Critics say a 14th Century artist may have forged the “shroud of the Messiah” using powdered pigment on a sculpture or a live model. But heaps of Catholics are certain the fabric captured Christ’s likeness in the throes of resurrection.
Back in the 1908s, carbon-dating tests pegged the shroud’s origins to the 1300s, right around when its recorded history kicks off.
But Dr. Liberato de Caro used new technology known as Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering to claim the ancient old fabric closely matches a sample from Masada’s famous siege back in 55-74 AD.
The expert has cast doubt on the previous carbon dating, writing: “Moulds and bacteria, colonising textile fibres, and dirt or carbon-containing minerals, such as limestone, adhering to them in the empty spaces between the fibres that at a microscopic level represent about 50% of the volume, can be so difficult to completely eliminate in the sample cleaning phase, which can distort the dating.”
He points out that his X-ray method doesn’t wreck the sample, giving boffins everywhere the chance to have a go and hopefully back up his bombshell findings.
De Caro points out that a number of pollen grains from plants native to the Middle East are embedded in the linen, dismissing the idea that it’s a European knock-off.
While solid proof of the Shroud’s existence before the mid-1300s is scarce, there have been suggestions that a very similar relic stolen from a Constantinople church a full century earlier might have been the same bit of kit.
The enigmatic Turin Shroud, imprinted with a spectral figure of a roughly six-foot-tall man marked by wounds that evoke images of whipping and crucifixion, fascinated the world upon its photographic capture at the end of the 19th Century. The camera revealed the obscure “scorch mark” as a stark and more striking negative image.
Throughout the years, various cynics have taken stabs at duplicating the image to varying degrees of success. Despite the dominant view skewing towards the artefact being the work of an untraceable hoaxer from the mid-14th Century, one must concede that such a craftsman possessed quite extraordinary, almost otherworldly, prowess.
Although the Vatican hasn’t reached a collective consensus on the legitimacy of the eerie relic, eminent figures within the Church, like Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis in 2013, have pronounced the Turin Shroud a miraculous artefact.
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