Enoch and the Watchers (feat. Angelarium) - Abrahamic Mythology Explained

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[@eyeless_person]

I love that when you do sponsored videos, you actually integrate them well into the video

[@qy-exotic7717]

ikr, kinda like trap lore ross

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

I find it irritating. No one is gonna buy the sponsored garbage.

[@thescorpion575]

​@@0ThrowawayAccount0Why? After knowing about the story of the watchers I'm actually interested in the topic and I find these books very interesting (even though I'm not actually going to buy them... Maybe)

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

@@thescorpion575you have only proved my point. No one is really gonna buy the garbage. Hey, at least Doubleyou gets his money.

[@whatarethat]

​@@0ThrowawayAccount0jake gotta get that bag, respect the hustle

[@faIIen_angle]

AAAAA I'm so excited you're doing non canonical books too! Enoch is fucking fascinating I'm so excited!

[@videogollumer]

Well, I'm glad someone besides me acknowledges that this is apocrypha.

[@davibrelazdealbuquerque5766]

Bible has some really wacky and interesting Filler Arcs 😆

[@flamenami]

@@videogollumerthe video does my guy

[@videogollumer]

@@flamenami I know, but I posted this comment BEFORE it streamed.

[@someonebody4594]

Non canonical? What?

[@rafaelbaptista5484]

I love that I searched Enoch’s apocryphal book a lot, saw videos that took me hours (my interest in this is huge) and then comes Jake, does a 9 minutes animated video about it and nailed it…wow

[@mihailmilev9909]

Right

[@mihailmilev9909]

130th like 3w ago

[@Yakmage]

I love Mohrbacher's art especially his art for Magic the gathering. he did art for three of the theros gods, which are inspired by greek mythology

[@goobermcboogerballs1420]

I could see the book of Enoch being a way for an ancient monotheistic people to explain the existence of other godly figures. To them they weren't gods, they were watchers.

[@mon_moi]

3:01 idk how but the way you drew the priest, the rabbi, and the Ethiopic Orthodox Church priest's outfits goes real hard

[@YaBoiBaxter2024]

Can you do a video on the evolution of Demons & Angels, along with the portrayal of the Abrahamic Hell (from the Hebrew 'Sheol' and 'Gehanna'), as they clearly started more as spirits than the semi-deities we know today; for hell, Ik it's probably alot more complicated.

[@DiePersoon]

That would be a great video

[@YaBoiBaxter2024]

@@DiePersoon Agreed!

[@sonofcronos7831]

That is a topic to way later. Demons are not a part of biblical lore until way later. Actually in the old testament there is no actual demon, only angels, some sent to do good things by God, other sent to do evil things. Satan, one of God angels, is the one sent to prosecute sinners. In only in the New Testament where we see Satan as a antagonistic force that dont want humans to have salvation, thus he starts a rebellion with one third of heaven angels (the demons), that ends with him trying to take over the world to end Jesus words in tbe book of revelation, but is ultimately defeated. So Jake will explore this topic later because it makes sense for him to explore the other old testament stories first.

[@DasWarVorbestimmt]

You'd like some religion for breakfast, is what your saying.

[@YaBoiBaxter2024]

@@DasWarVorbestimmt cool

[@javierhernandez1555]

Just got both books. Thank you for the sponsored video as I would have NEVER ran into this. I truly appreciate the unique, artistic views and takes of biblical personas.

[@altonwilliams17]

Don't delete your channel ever. We love you.

[@zwiebeldogs]

This is the first time I've ever given in to a sponsorship (only because they didnt ship those galaxy lamps to Germany lol) but the books just arrived! I've only skimmed through them for now, but they look and feel reaaally nice! Can't wait to explore them further.

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

I was hoping you'd go into that time Enoch got high on weeds and saw lovecraftian abominations that just so happened to be legit angels, the Cheribum, Ophanim, and Seraphim.

[@arvinroidoatienza7082]

No that's Ezekiel. And Cherubim actually look like that

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 right Ezlkiel And... dude Cherubim are not little winged babies... they are are a winged, four faced thing that can only fly in six directions, front back, left, right, up and down. And often are floating within the rings of an ophanim.

[@arvinroidoatienza7082]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 that's what I'm trying to say

[@craytherlaygaming2852]

@@arvinroidoatienza7082 How was I meant to get any of that from the disjointed reply? all I got was the Ezkiel bit, which I thank you for

[@milliondollarmistake]

@@craytherlaygaming2852 nah I got what he was saying the misunderstanding was on you

[@mdgiudice8797]

Thats amazing art and I was quite surprised to see this is where the band Blind Guardian found the cover for their lastest album The God Machine.

[@ocbday]

Was thinking the same thing

[@namelessBard99]

Ah, a man of culture as well

[@danthiel8623]

I remember I saw a picture of a sculpture of Moses in an art history class and he had horns? That was interesting.

[@jdmangrich]

That is because one of the greek translations of the Book of Exodus mistakenly translated a word that was describing his facial expression to the word for "horned"

[@whattheshrek243]

its a misstranslation, the word for sunshine is "keren ore" and the word for horn is "keren"

[@sonofcronos7831]

Is a combination of Moses and and the greek god Dionysius.

[@videogollumer]

@@jdmangrich That's... embarrassing.

[@aliasfakename3159]

How has the monster lover community not hopped on this yet? It's semi-canon for angels to clap human cheeks

[@videogollumer]

It's not semi-canon; it's NON-canon. There's no such thing as semi-canon when it comes to the Bible.

[@whiteraven181]

What a delightful and incredibly cursed sentence this is

[@jandthelilj4064]

I can’t believe it took me so long to find out that most angels have Els in the end of their names. GabriEL, RaphaEL, AzazEL, AsriEL, etc. It’s like El is is a version or monicker of God, who sometimes goes by El or Elohim. This might be old news, but man it is a fun observation. I mean, come on AngELs!!! Though yes, angel is a variation of the Greek term meaning messenger. So for an Abrahamic term, messenger of El or messenger of God.

[@videogollumer]

Yes, it's no coincidence; each letter and number has a meaning. We also see EL in the names of many men in the Bible: IsraEL, IshmaEL, ELi, SamuEL, ELijah, ELisha, and DaniEL.

[@aliasfakename3159]

Kal-El aka Superman

[@videogollumer]

@@aliasfakename3159 That MIGHT have been intended.

[@jandthelilj4064]

@@videogollumerI mean, to be fair, they were prophets of God/YHWH/Yaweh/El/Elohim/Allah. It’s pretty much an interesting cultural history of the Canaanites. Plus, other than Hebrew/Aramaic, Al is used a lot in Arabic, another Semitic/Afro Asiatic language. Though the use of Al in Arabic is mainly used to mean the.

[@videogollumer]

@@jandthelilj4064 The Canaanites are NOT the same people as the Israelites. The Canaanites are the descendants of Ham's son Canaan. The Israelites are descendants of Israel aka Jacob, who is a direct descendant of Shem.

[@seraphim6786]

The Genesis 6 passage is quite interesting For myself, listening to some scholars, teachers, and thinkers - I've come to the conclusion that the "sons of god" specifically in Genesis 6 refer to ancient kings and not fallen angels (only humans are punished (implies only human sin is in view), nephillim are called "men" not ... I dunno... "angel-men"?, kings in the ancient world were often called sons of gods) but I do understand the angel-human hybrid view, since it is popular and what I used to hold to. Kinda funny that you post this video now, since I literally just read the book of watcher from 1 Enoch for a class I am doing

[@legueu]

That sponsorship was a match made in heaven, literally.

[@TheEmbodimentOfSorrow]

It would be interesting if Jake ever did a video on “The Book of Mormon”.

[@milliondollarmistake]

South Park does a pretty good deep dive lol

[@TheEmbodimentOfSorrow]

@@milliondollarmistake 😂 I only was curious about this since I am a Mormon and I think it would be an interesting topic.

[@unitedgamingalliance772]

The State of Utah's national guard bouta be knocking on his front door

[@TheEmbodimentOfSorrow]

@@unitedgamingalliance772 FR

[@EmmanuelMarin07]

Demons are cool and all but angels are so underrated! Thank you for spotlighting them in this one! Could you cover the hierarchy of angels? I always found that fascinating but a bit too much to chew on

[@themattyhorn]

SO MANY THINGS - First, what an amazing sponsor, I'm glad they reached out to you! Also, great video as always, was so excited to see the notification. I love your approach to the subjects and your sense of humor.

[@Slug_Boots]

YES! I requested Enoch a bit ago, Jake really does care 🤧 lol

[@e.rvanrood7373]

ANGELERIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS INSANE!!!!!! I didn't see this Collab happening!

[@persaud9206]

I was literally considering starting the book of Enoch this morning then this drops!

[@alitsa]

Your cartoony renditions of the gorgeous concept art is really adorable and delightful

[@alexschlessman5355]

Huge fan of your biblical content, Possible idea for future video: bahlal and the talking donkey

[@aeviarth-the-dragoness]

What was Blahaj doing with Donkey!?

[@Thor-the-BlueBoy]

4:28 The quick text reads: "I probably should've put them in the order they're named." 8:52 His arm glitched out and his text says: "I have no idea what causes this glitch in Blender"

[@swedishcooling9907]

Hey Jake I was just wondering why you haven't given Zeus any nipples but all other muscular and more buff male gods and heroes have them (even those with robes for example), I just think it looks a bit disturbing.

[@magicshonabear]

You should do a book of Exodus . Your videos are always so funny and make me want to learn more.

[@hammishhiggins153]

One little critism of this video is that refering to Gods sons as angels is only one interpretation other interpretations would refer the sons of God as the descendants of Seth and the woman as the descendants of Cain and when they married they formed unholy unions and historically this was the most popular view with it being supported by such figures as Martin Luther and John Calvin and another interpretation would be that the sons of man were referring to kings who decided to start practicing polygamy.

[@ooscaritotheoosc]

I am currently reading Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle (a sequel-ish to A Wrinkle In Time) and a lot of it was kind of confusing, but it's based off of this story and Noah's Ark. The book makes waaaaay more sense now!

[@realrickyshea]

I immediately thought of that book when Jake talked about expanding on the mythology of the Nephilim. I really like L'Engle's take on it.

[@Lyonel]

That's how to do awesome Product Placement! =D I just purchased the 2 books, the artworks look gorgeous and great Video as allways!

[@germanxmascookie]

This was awesome. Make more videos please!

[@heliosphobic]

its been so long since ive seen anything in relation to angelarium im glad its come back thru you jake!

[@leonardomotta1143]

I love when your characters, including you, blink one eye at a time. I remember that from “Hey Arnold!” and it just cracks me up

[@boydstephensmithjr]

As per usual, your skills at "selling out" are exceptionally good!

[@diogogiao3474]

Hello Jake! Once again, you did such a wonderful job! I always love the way you present the myth stories! All this to say, never loose this marvelous way of being! Oh, also, are you familiar with the ever so entertaining duo Pascu&Rodri here on KZbin? They're Latino and do humorous songs regarding the myths. They're interpretations of them are quite interesting. If you could, or rather want really, check them out! Thank you and have a good one

[@ezikod3566]

now i really want to get Angelarium

[@believer80]

Wow what a treat, thank you so much! ❤

[@gameover9390]

The Watchers teaching humanity about the secrets of Heaven, is very similar to myth of prometheus. I believe the Writer at the very least took inspiration from it or at the most, just straight up copied it. Although it is also possible it’s nothing more than a similarity and a mere coincidence.

[@theboyvin7739]

I love the angels adapted into your art style.

[@risingphoenix02]

If anyone is intrested in this kind of stuf i can recommend the game dominions 5(6 will actually be released very soon so might also want to wait for that). Each nation you can play as is based on a legends and mythology like these shown here. Also just a fun strategy game in general in my opinion.

[@kamyabrezaee5047]

I like how these kind of make sense with Supernatural series too

[@Huh-HarmonyReal]

Yay another one of these im so happy

[@itascab4910]

Beautiful artwork! Wanted to contribute as well that the Mormon religion has writings about Enoch in the book of Moses in some of their scripture: The Pearl of Great Price. That story of Enoch is actually a pretty common story in the Mormon religion as well. 👍

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

Too bad LDS is false like all religions.

[@LiliannEnder]

​@@0ThrowawayAccount0 You must be fun at parties

[@0ThrowawayAccount0]

@@LiliannEnder I am a hoot, actually. What is not fun at parties are archaic myths dictating how people live.

[@Thebiggest.Orange]

Its starting!!

[@otterdisappointment6408]

On the topic of recontextualising and Characterising mythology, what is your opinion on “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman? I personally really enjoyed it, but would think a person with a greater mythological understanding might view it, and how it treats the idea of gods, differently.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Coming there as an opera fan kinda immediately gave away who Mr. Wednesday is when Czernobog calls him Wotan XD

[@voidspine]

Hey, I participated in his first kickstarter! Got a deck of cards.

[@kissun.13]

OH WOW!!! I didn't expect this collab to happen! I'm a huge fan of Angelarium! I got both the books + The Book of Enoch and those works make the foundation of my fascination with angels! 💫 🪽✨

[@AngiraBlu]

Oh yeah! I’ve seen Angelarium’s art, a few years back!

[@Kaimli]

oh the art is absolutely gorgeous!

[@luke.friesen]

The Nephilim got an explanation by bible nerd Steve Mackie that makes sense to me: “You know how nearly every kingdom and town was founded by a demigod, giant, or god? Well, here’s how they came about and, spoiler warning, they’re bad news.” My paraphrase 😜

[@lideruploader6577]

such nice content bro

[@whade62000]

Somebody made a pretty popular fanfic: 16th century occultist John Dee, with his buddy Edward Kelley. He invented a language he called "Enochian" which could be used to communicate with angels, and based his homebrew magic system on it.

[@mil1189]

These books look so beautiful! It's a shame they can't be shipped to my country... 😢

[@HereticalKitsune]

Love that guy's art! And one of his pieces is also featured on the latest album from Blind Guardian, God Machine, a great German power metal band!

[@LaserMan101]

So in Jewish tradition the word for angels מלאכים is broadly accepted to have 2 meanings. The first is the traditional angel and the meaning second is judge. So in the story after enoch (Hebrew-חנוך) it is not angles chasing after human women but a group of humans know as the judges.

[@LaserMan101]

I do not know enough about the nephilim to comment on their origin

[@sonofcronos7831]

A lot of historians believes the story makes perfect sense with angels, not human mating with other humans (that would just produce more humans, why would that be a bad thing?). And books like Enoch and the book of Giants all have the angel part and they are the oldests interpretation of that part in genesis. Is only later in the christian era where both jews and christian start to intepreted the story as humans mating with humans, instead of angels doing that.

[@jmurray1110]

Sounds more like a polytheistic religion that got smooshed into a monotheistic one so all the other gods got downgraded to either angels, demons or spirits Hell given certain definitions I don’t even think there should be a distinction between god, angel and demon especially since the traditional distinguishing trait was that angels didn’t have free will

[@Darkgun231]

@@sonofcronos7831 I dunno, humans mating with humans could have been a bad thing in certain circumstances. Adultery, for one, tends to be a big no-no in parts of the Abrahamic stuff. And Judaism does hold to strict matrilineal traditions, so it's not impossible these 'Judges' could have been humans but from a different tribe, one that was hostile to the Hebrews and kidnapped their women (as was wont to happen back then). Perhaps God then punished these 200 Judges by cursing the offspring born of this union, thus the Nephilim. Possibly, the tales about the whole situation just got lost over time, hence why we don't know the full backstory anymore.

[@sonofcronos7831]

@@Darkgun231 hebrews dont even existed in Noah time. And like i said, every hebrew and jewish text from the era Before Christ mentions this sons of God as angels, like the book of Enoch, the book of giants, etc. Is only when christians starting to appear that both jews and christians starts to change their views to humans and only humans in that story (even trough human mating with human resulting in "man of mighty power of renown" dont make sense if their fathers and mothers were both average humans).

[@ronin2963]

Kool....luv your work

[@teooktd]

Amazing art! I bet the storyes are just as good!

[@emmanuelcamacho2442]

Can you do a video on Bergjarlar. They are mountain giants in norse mythology, and its hard to find information on them, which i think is pretty cool. From what i read that they are vampiric, like with 2 fangs and drink blood.

[@aadhityaramanathan8296]

Can you make a video about Hindu mythology. It's really interesting plus I love learning about mythologies from your vids. Love you

[@kn0rr1s_]

You should do one about kalevala... please.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Thanks for doing this video dude. I've always been curious over the Book of Enoch since, y'know, Catholics don't recognize this book as canon, but the idea of a man, through enlightenment, becomes an Archangel with a name sounded very appealing. Plus, the idea that the Watchers are angels that sinned makes the angels that don't sin look more respectable because they resist those temptations and overcome them of their volition every moment of their existence; kind of like what the Fall of Lucifer does for the loyal children of God like Michael and Gabriel. Makes them look respectable in their self-restraint. Plus, that art for Angelarium. It's like Eldritch Horror flipped on its side into some sort of Cosmic Beauty. I can't stress how much I love that art.

[@videogollumer]

Believe me, Angelarium is far from the first one to do that. Bayonetta's done it, several Final Fantasy games have done it, and it's been done a number of times in D&D and Magic: the Gathering.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

@videogollumer While I thank you for the examples as to which I may check out later (except Bayonetta, I'm already a fan) but the Book of Enoch held more interest with it being supposedly a part of the religion I practice and how it gets me to think deeply. No offense intended to the other IP's, of course.

[@videogollumer]

@@b3rz3rk3r9 None taken nor intended. I was just saying it's nothing new; but seeing as you are a Bayonetta fan, I'm guessing you already knew that then.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

@@videogollumer To be candid, I have yet to play through them all. Bayo 2 makes use of this, yes? I haven't finished that one yet.

[@videogollumer]

@@b3rz3rk3r9 I was talking about the first one, where you fight angels.

[@LovelyLass1328]

I love the thumbnail! :⁠-⁠)

[@LacieWhy]

How is this not an anime? And maybe the Watchers got to hang out with the Greek Titans in their ground hole prison.

[@goobermcboogerballs1420]

Bro I'm not gonna lie, you are living my dream. I'm fascinated by ancient myths and always dreamed of doing a KZbin channel on the subject. I'll see you again in a few months, I'm gonna go for it.

[@viridianacortes9642]

Go for it! I wish you the best! Follow your dreams!

[@Set-your-handle]

you should do one about Nyx

[@qliphalpuzzle5453]

Yes another fan of angelarium

[@guardian6102]

i love angels so much, its my pfp and what my username is based on. just bought the books and i cant wait to get them

[@EdKolis]

The first time I heard of the nephilim was playing an old RPG called Exile, later and more famously remade as Avernum. It was hard to tell what they were supposed to be from the tiny sprites but I thought they were tall, thin, gray cat people! Though from what I can remember, they also resembled Saturn (the god, not the planet) as portrayed in the painting of him devouring his children...

[@kittywampusdrums4963]

You should do the Forgotten Realms pantheon!

[@danthiel8623]

Angelarium what? That's so cool!

[@jamesproffitt9641]

We need more enoch please

[@EthanPence-mj2yo]

Bro my three favorite KZbinrs posted three hours ago

[@user-kk9sw2sx3o]

So... For a reason or two I wanted to make a video/write a piece about Enoch and the legends that he became the angel Metatron. I'm kind of too lazy to actually do the proper research and can only speak from personal knowledge of the Talmud and Jewish Midrash. So anyway, it'd be great if you'd make a video about it - I can probably bring a point of reference or two. Either that or I'll actually put in the work and do it myself. I should probably do the latter.

[@KnuttyEntertainment]

Surprised you didn’t mention that Mormonism has it own version of the Book of Enoch called the Book of Moses. Though while on the topic, I would be interested in seeing you do a video on Mormon mythology, there’s a lot of neat stuff in there that people just don’t know about.

[@ceriseagundezredgypsyqueen8309]

Love for you to do more Enoch videos Or Metatron I enjoy your videos

[@andreaholman3138]

, can you do a video on the Greek goddess chaos? And love you're videos

[@videogollumer]

I'm pretty sure Chaos is more of an it than a he or a she.

[@DarkWarriorShadowClaw]

There is definetely something about these myths that wont let me resist (especially if its just 50,- including shipping and code, right now)

[@alucardhellsing5466]

The way I NEED this book yet it doesn't ship to Argentina

[@kaiserfranzjoseph9311]

Interesting to hear the thing from the Blind Guardien cover is supposed to be an angel

[@chillychowmein]

have you heard of the ps3 game el shaddai? it was a beat em up/ puzzle platformer about enoch vs rogue angels. wild game, might wanna check it out

[@nono9543]

You should do the Book of Giants

[@hannaholivia4]

This is awesome

[@zaickho8359]

first time a sponsorship worked on me e.e

[@GreatLionoftheStars218]

Hiya Jake! As a Christian, I think you're videos are great and super hilarious! Any chance you could give me an answer on what Herakles's club was made of? Normally, it is said he made it himself out of an olive tree but Diodorus Siculus says that it is bronze tipped and made by Hephaestus. Need your help on this one.

[@JakeDoubleyoo]

If that's what the sources say, then either answer is valid. Though I'll say Diodorus usually tried to rationalize myths to make them sound more realistic, so take that for what it's worth. There's no definitive answer. You can also look up classical artwork and see how it's depicted.

[@GreatLionoftheStars218]

@@JakeDoubleyoo I have wondered how Herakles's club never broke when facing off against such powerful monsters, so I guess Diodorus's version does make more sense, given Hephaestus made it. Thanks so much!

[@parsnipguy2986]

It’s about time we figured out what those old myths might’ve been about

[@elvininoa3367]

Though Sariel taught men the course of the moon and her name is said to provide protection against the Evil eye

[@succmeister7808]

Do gnostic mythology, it’ll be fun and straightforward I swear :)

[@420negus]

Thank you for giving The Ethiopian Orthodox some credit on this.

[@memphisblough2123]

Pls do revaluations it is the best book

[@Nguyenzander]

5:24 What does Enoch 4:23 reference to? I have found chapter 4 to only have one verse. Moreover, the cited passage is just Genesis and has nothing to do with the story. Also it is before the last reference (4:27)

[@VonBunBun]

Idea: for april fools, do a video on atheism, and just have it be twenty seconds of you saying "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[@metegg480]

Can you do a video on slavic mythology?

[@fuegoiron2786]

7:39 baraqiel is literally an electrode

[@quinncall6515]

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints we believe Enoch was a dispensation head after the decendents of Adam fell away from God. Enoch tauht repentance like Noah but instead of everyone ignoring him the people repented and their entire city (Zion) was brought up to be with God.

[@sinnamon-wade]

just bought both books, little late birthday present for myself :3c

[@jamesdeininger3759]

Does Angelarium and Book of Watchers combine what we know from the Book of Enoch and the Bible with Greek mythology? I always thought that would be cool! The Nephilim and Fallen Angels sound so similar to the Titans, Olympians and Demi-Gods that they have to share the same backstories.

[@TheRezro]

Hellenic world did have influence Israel, that much we know.

[@buckleyfamily1153]

At some point I would like to see a video about the end of days

[@templargfx]

hot dang thats some awesome art

[@matthewconstantino111]

That book cover is giving me Neon Genesis Evangelion vibes. Heck, there's even the Lance of Longinus!