Who Are the Watchers?
In ancient myths, the Watchers loom over realms of angels, demons, and extraterrestrials.
The Watchers are often cited in religious texts and ancient writings.
These beings intrigue scholars, theologians, and conspiracy theorists.
Blurring celestial guardians, evil forces, and distant star visitors spawns captivating speculation.
The eternal question remains in the labyrinth of history, mythology, and religious lore:
Who were the Watchers?
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Who Are the Watchers?
I purchased Michael Tellinger’s Book Slave Species of the Gods, and he provided more information about who the Watchers were.
According to Tellinger, they are also known as the Igigi or Neteru. The Anunnaki were initially stationed on Mars and later became followers of Marduk, then known as the Egyptian sun god Ra.
From the book Slave Species of the Gods.
The Anunnaki sent gold from Earth to a weigh station on Mars, where they could send larger shipments because of the lower gravity.
(According to Tellinger and many other sources, the atmosphere of the Anunnaki’s home planet, Nibiru, had become compromised, and the only cure to patch up the hole was to use a form of “powdered gold.”
Their home planet of Nibiru was not prosperous in gold, but Earth was plentiful with it.)
Back then, the people who lived on Mars, called “Lahmu,” were known as the “Igigi,” but cosmic events forced the Igigi to desert the planet and return to Earth.
The Anunnaki and the Igigi sons were called the Nephilim in Genesis and other literature.
“Those who descended to Earth from Heaven.”
Even Genesis talks about the Nephilim who came to Earth and “saw that the daughters of man were beautiful and had children with them.” This created a new species of humans called the Aryans, who lived separately from the rest and greatly influenced civilizations.
Genesis 6:1-4 says:
“When men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and took them wives of all which they chose.”
They were followers of Marduk. The Igigi received the name the “Watchers” or, in their language, “Neteru” from their King named Anu.
This is what King Anu said:
“Those on Earth are shall as Anunnaki be known, Those who from Heaven (Mars/Lahmu) to Earth came,” and “Those who on Lahmu (Mars) are, Igigi shall be named, Those Who Observe and See (The Watchers).”
King Anu
The Igigi/Watchers/Neteru produced many offspring on Earth who became pharaohs in Egypt. They also played a vital role in creating the Aryan civilization by intermarrying Earthling females.
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Aryans: The Children of the Watchers
According to Tellinger, the Aryans originated somewhere in Northern Mesopotamia, southwest of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia (Turkey).
They are described as light-skinned or “whites” who spoke a very early proto-European language from which all the following European languages evolved.
Also, the Igigi/Watchers/Neteru did not come to Earth until after the great flood, which was caused when the planet Nibiru was in its elliptical orbit, which came so close to Mars that it sucked its atmosphere right with it.
Along with the irreparable damage caused to Mars, Earth also suffered from enormous flooding.
Since Mars was no longer inhabitable, the Igigi came to Earth to live permanently. Unfortunately, their Anunnaki brethren in Sumer did not welcome them warmly.
They were mainly treated as outcasts, so they moved away, establishing their community on their land. They moved north of Sumer to the mountainous Anatolia region in Turkey and the Cedar Mountains.
The Indo-European language used the term Aryan to classify people racially and ethnically based on the type of accent or “Aryan speech” the people spoke.
Arya means noble and appears in various Indo-European languages. Before their dispersal, they most likely used the plural of Aryas nobles to describe themselves.
This term still survives in Iran, where the Igigi offspring were called “Airyanam vaejo” – “realm of the Aryans.” The Aryans once expanded as far as China in the Far East.
It is also known that Iran was named after Aryan.
Remember, the Aryans were a blend of the Igigi/ Anunnaki gods and their genetically created human offspring known as humans. Since these children had the genetics of the gods, they saw themselves as superior to “ordinary humans.”
A recent discovery of the remains of blond-haired people in China shows how far the Aryans explored.
4000-year-old Blonde Caucasian Mummies have been found buried in the soil of China| YouTube.
Several years ago, I even remembered seeing a documentary on television about how several Chinese children from a nomadic tribe had blond hair and blue eyes, yet mainly Chinese facial features.
The Aryans worshipped a sky god. They traced their descent through their male line, drank mead, raised livestock, and used horse-drawn chariots, including bronze and iron, that they most likely used as weapons of war.
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Rh – Neg Blood=Nephilim Watcher Descendants
People with Rh-negative blood are believed to be more related to Anunnaki or Watcher genes than most humans.
Type 0 neg is the blood of the Anunnaki, Watcher, and Fallen Angels. People who have Rh-negative blood have similar characteristics:
- Higher IQ than most
- Lower body temperature than average
- Higher blood pressure than average
- Red, blonde, or reddish-blonde hair
- Extra vertebrae at the tailbone
- Highly sensitive nervous system
- Strong intuition and psychic abilities
- Blue or green eyes
- Thyroid Issues
- Feeling different than others, but don’t know why
- Cleft chin
Michael Tsarion discusses the Watchers in his book The Irish Origins of Civilization.
The Irish Origins of Civilization Volume One: The Servants of Truth, Druidic Traditions & Influence Explored Book – Amazon Link.
Michael Tsarion: The Cult of Mithras was a Hellenistic Solar Cult that thrived in the second century BC during the Roman Empire. It particularly attracted men from the military and was popular among the Romans.
In this famous image, we see the sun god Mithras (Mith Ra) overcoming the bull of Taurus. Mithras represents the sun moving from the sign of Taurus into Aries.
This astrological phase-shift had obsessed Akhenaton and his Atonists. Their god was the sun, whose relative position in the heavens mattered much to his “Watchers.”
Egyptian priests were at odds when the sun transitioned from Taurus into Aries. Some wished to continue the old paradigm, while others hailed the change.
The story of the Chosen People building a “Golden Calf” alludes to this schism in the ranks. The Cult of Mithras was practically identical to the Sol Invicti Cult to which Emperor Constantine belonged.
Both Cults were, in our mind, variants of Egyptian Atonism.
According to Author Ralph Ellis in his book Eden in Egypt, the “Watchers” were Giza astronomer priests or guardians who studied the night sky and observed the movement of the constellations.
Enoch & The Watchers
(Michael Howard – www.the-cauldron.org.uk)
These Ben Elohim or ‘fallen angels’ were known as the Watchers, the Grigori, and the Irin.
In Jewish mythology, the Grigori were initially a superior order of angels who dwelt in the highest heaven with God and resembled human beings in their appearance.1
‘Watcher’ means ‘one who watches,’ ‘those who watch,’ ‘those who are awake,’ or ‘those who do not sleep.’ These titles reflect their unique relationship with the human race since ancient times.
In the esoteric Luciferian tradition, they were an elite order of angelic beings created by God to be earthly shepherds of the first primitive humans. Their task was to observe and watch the emerging human species and report on their progress.
However, they were confined by the prime divine directive not to interfere in human evolution. Unfortunately, they decided to ignore God’s command, defy his orders, and become teachers to the human race, with unfortunate repercussions for themselves and humanity.
Most information about the Watchers and their activities comes from the apocryphal Book of Enoch. In the Orthodox Bible, the prophet Enoch, from the Hebrew ‘Hanokh’ or instructor, is a mysterious figure.
Two hundred of the ‘fallen angels’ descended from the heavenly realm onto the summit of Mount Hermon, and they were so smitten by the beauty of human women that, using their new material bodies, they had sex with them.
This further incurred Yahweh’s wrath. According to the Bible, the consequence of this miscegenation between the Fallen Ones and mortals led to the creation of half-angelic, half-human offspring (Genesis 6:4).
These children were called the Nefelim or Nephilim, the giant race once inhabited Old Earth.
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Second Book Of Enoch: The Watchers
The Jewish pseudepigrapha Second Book of Enoch (Slavonic Enoch) refers to the Grigori, the same as the Watchers of 1 Enoch. The Slavic word Grigori used in the book is a transcription of the Greek word ἐγρήγοροι egrḗgoroi, meaning “wakeful.”
The Hebrew equivalent is ערים, meaning “waking” or “awake.”
Chapter 18 presents the Grigori as countless soldiers of human appearance, “their size being greater than that of great giants.”
They are located in the fifth heaven and identified as “the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light.” One version of 2 Enoch adds that their number was 200 myriads (2 million).
Furthermore, some “went down on to earth from the Lord’s throne,” and there married women and “befouled the earth with their deeds,” resulting in confinement underground.
The number of those who descended to earth is generally put at three, but Andrei A. Orlov, while quoting the text as saying three, remarks in a footnote that some manuscripts put them at 200 or even 200 myriads.
Chapter 29, referring to the second day of creation, before the creation of human beings, says that “one from out the order of angels” or, according to other versions of 2 Enoch, “one of the orders of archangels” or “one of the ranks of the archangels” “conceived an impossible thought, to place his throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might become equal in rank to [the Lord’s] power.
And [the Lord] threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless.”
Although in this chapter, the name “Satanail” is mentioned only in a heading added in one manuscript, this chapter, too, is often understood to refer to Satanail and his angels, the Grigori.
The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible distinguishes between the Grigori and the fallen angels by stating that in the fifth heaven, Enoch sees “the giants whose brothers were the fallen angels.”
The longer recension of 2 Enoch 18:3 identifies the prisoners of second heaven as the angels of Satanail.
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” – Saint Augustine
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In doing so, we shall look at the origins of the first secret societies and the influences of astrotheology and serpent worship upon them.
Zecharia Sitchin, in The Stairway to Heaven, states:
The Akkadians called their predecessors Shumerians, and spoke of the Land of Shumer. It was in fact the biblical Land of Shin’ar.
It was the land whose name – Shumer – literally meant the Land of the Watchers. It was indeed the Egyptian Ta Neter – Land of the Watchers, the land from which gods had come to Egypt.
Zecharia Sitchin
We must now move on to one of the earliest of all origins of secret societies, from which is derived much of the terminology and symbolism still used today by the Freemasons,
Rosicrucians, and many others – the Watchers – otherwise known as the “Sons of God” and in Hebrew as Eyrim (Irim).
So, Sumeria could mean “Land of the Watchers,” and it is from this land that the Elohim or Shining Ones, who governed the Watchers, also came.
In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes tells us something interesting about these governing gods:
Throughout Mesopotamia, from the earliest times of Sumer and Akkad, all lands were owned by gods and men were their slaves.
Of this, the cuneiform texts leave no doubt whatever. Each city-state had its principal god, and the king was described in the very earliest written documents that we have as “the tenant farmer of the god.”
Let’s look at these Elohim for a moment to find out who these “gods” were that supposedly enslaved man and were in charge of the Watchers.
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Elohim
This is the term often used in the Old Testament (and other texts outside of it, such as in the Muslim Allah = Elah) for the Lord; it is an incorrect usage, as the term is plural and means “Shining Ones.”
We can see this plurality in the text of Genesis 1:26:
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
And again in Genesis 6:2:
“The sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair.”
This term “sons of God” is literally “sons of gods” and comes from ben ha-elohim, “sons of the shining ones.”
- The Sumerian EL means simply bright or shining.
- The Old Irish Aillil means shining.
- Old Cornish EL means shining.
- Elf means shining – hence, Elves as tall/mysterious angelic beings
- Inca Illa is bright or to shine.
- Babylonian Ellu is to shine,
…to name just a few that have sprung up worldwide from the same Sumerian source.
Baal, the deity, is often called the “Lord” in the Bible. In the Old Testament, he is also seen as a shining one and is called the Owner. At that time, there were many “Owners” or shining ones; in fact, there was one for each village.
To these Hebrews, the Elohim were nature divinities from ancient Sumerian times.
According to General Albert Pike, the famous Masonic historian, in Morals and Dogma, the Elohim were the “host of heaven,” ascending and descending to pass messages to and from god or leader (Yahweh).
The host of heaven was, of course, the stars in the night sky humanized.
Some of the shining ones were called Watchers, akin to the angels of the Lord. Yahweh Elohim means simply “leader of the shining ones.”
So now we have these plural Elohim, or shining ones, as gods, above even the kings and supplying Watchers to watch over man. As Sitchin pointed out, they were also in Egypt.
This Ta Neter that Sitchin mentions resembles the Egyptian Ntr, a name for Ptah and other gods, which means guardian or watcher. Ta Neter is also the name for the Red Sea straits, which connected Mesopotamia and Egypt and is known as the place of the gods.
The word Neter or Ntr derives from the concept of neutrality and is simply the place between, the path between the pillars, or the place between awake and asleep that we spoke of earlier in this chapter.
These Watchers were also known as Urshu and were classed as being less divine than the gods, although in this instance, as Graham Hancock points out in Fingerprint of the Gods, the Urshu speak of the Neteru (Ntr) as if it were they who were the gods and the Urshu, the Watchers.
Whatever the truth in this matter, it is no wonder that confusion has arisen over so many thousands of years.
The fact remains that the ancients spoke of a time when there were gods or shining ones who ruled up and down Sumeria and Egypt and employed watchers over the ordinary folk.
In the same way, a Pharaoh of Egypt was a god-on-Earth, so priests of the Elohim (stars) were stars-on-Earth.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead calls these Watchers:
Anubis and Horus in the form of Horus the sightless. Others, however, say that they are the Tchatcha, who bring to nought the operations of their knives; and others say that they are the chiefs of the Sheniu chamber.
According to The Legend of Votan (note similarity with the Nordic Wotan who is said to have come from across the sea) from Mesoamerica, [The historical region of Mesoamerica comprises the modern-day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico,] this Votan was the serpent who was a descendent of the race of Can and was called a guardian or watcher, amazingly similar to Canaan, as such people as Zelia Nuttal in Papers of the Peabody Museum has suggested.
The Hebrews termed these Watchers nun resh’ayin, meaning “those who watch.” In Greek, this is translated as Gigantes or giants, a race that even the 907 B.C. writer Hesiod featured as monstrous (due to their serpentine aspect).
Now, we can understand the role of the giants seen worldwide in folklore as the presence of the Watchers.
Enoch in 1 Enoch 20:1-8 even gives us the names of these Watchers, and I noted that they were all subtitled Shining Ones with the ending:
And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.
Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos.
Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
In the Testament of Amram (manuscript B), we have a remarkable insight into the aspect of these shining Watchers:
I asked them, “Who are you, that you are thus empowered over me?”
They answered me, “We have been empowered and rule over all mankind.” They said to me, “Which of us do you choose to rule you?”
I raised my eyes and looked. One of them was terrifying in his appearance, like a serpent, his cloak many colored yet very dark.
And I looked again, and in his appearance, his visage like a viper, and wearing exceedingly, and all his eyes….I replied to him, “This Watcher, so is he?”
He answered me, “This Watcher….and his three names are Belial and Prince of darkness and King of Evil.”
The Mosaic Book of Jubilees was initially called the Apocalypse of Moses as it was supposedly written by Moses while on Mount Sinai and dictated by a Watcher or angel.
This book was intended as a history of the days of old and revealed the purpose of the Watchers:
In his days, the angels of the Lord [Elohim – Shining Ones] descended upon the earth [came down from their mountain stronghold] – those named Watchers – that they should instruct the children of men, that they should do judgment and uprightness upon the earth.
According to the Book of Jubilees, these Watchers are the sons of God spoken of in Genesis, sent from their heavenly abode to instruct men.
What seems to have occurred is that they fell from grace by mating with the daughters of men and were thus outcasts – giving us the fallen angels we are familiar with today.
However, according to A Dictionary of Angels, not all these Watchers descended from the heavenly abode, and those that did not were termed holy Watchers, residing in the fifth heaven.
As Enoch himself had testified against these fallen Watchers, he was protected by the ruling Shining Ones and transported to the Garden of Eden (Eden means plateau and is, therefore, a specific place):
And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! The Watchers called me – Enoch the scribe – and said to me:
“Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and have done as the children of the earth do, and have taken unto themselves wives:
Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children.
The murder of their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye not attain.”
Conclusion
As we navigate the intricate maze of interpretations surrounding the Watchers, the journey leads us through the rich tapestry of human belief systems.
Were they celestial beings, fallen angels who succumbed to forbidden desires?
Could they be the nefarious entities that gave birth to the notion of demons in various mythologies?
Or, dare we entertain the idea that the Watchers were not of this Earth but extraterrestrial beings observing and influencing the course of human history?
Regardless of the lens through which one views the Watchers, their allure persists, a testament to their fascination with the unknown.
The intersection of mythology, religion, and ufology reveals the fluidity of human interpretation, where the supernatural and the extraterrestrial converge.
Perhaps the Watchers are not confined to a singular identity but embody the ever-shifting narratives woven by humanity’s collective consciousness.
In the end, the enigma of the Watchers beckons us to explore the realms of possibility, reminding us that the quest for understanding spans beyond the boundaries of angels, demons, or extraterrestrials into the infinite expanse of human curiosity.
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Sources:
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/alien_watchers07.htm
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/secretsoc/secretsoc05.htm
Slave Species of The Gods Book – Michael Tellinger
The Irish Origins of Civilization.com – Michael Tsarion
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