Angels and Vampires: One and the Same
PART ONE:
When stripped of all the religious dogmae, the mythical beliefs, the Hollywood hype, etc., and instead "Vampires" and "Angels" are viewed from a purely historical viewpoint, an unavoidable connection is discovered linking both.
The first "angels" to arrive on the scene historically, both in Semitic and Sumerian accounts, were the supposed "Fallen Angels" ("Nephilim," or as more accurately and originally rendered, "Sons of God," as found in Genesis 6:2-4, also called the "Grigori" [Watchers] and "Anunnake" [in Sumerian]). As related in these most ancient accounts, these celestial visitors descended from the skies and taught Humankind. In Sumerian accounts (predating the Biblical ones), these "heavenly" visitors were Sumer's first rulers and their descendants thereafter. In Semitic accounts, however, these same beings were later vilified as "evil" and as having "fallen" rather than descended from "Heaven." Thereafter in these Semitic (e.g., Biblical) accounts, it was their leader, Azazel, who soon was portrayed as the prototype for "Satan," the "Devil," and the rest of these supposedly "fallen" angels became Satan's "angels." This is where the legend came from, as found today in the Book of Revelation, of "Satan" and his followers having been "cast out" of Heaven for rebellion. The fact that none of this is actually true nor is it at all what is found recorded in either the Old Testament, the Books of Enoch or Jubilees, nor even the Midrashim on the subject makes no difference to the "faithful" Christians' assessment of their beloved "Book of Revelation."
What would truly shock Christians today is the indisputible fact that the very concept of a "Savior" who takes upon Himself the sins of the world (i.e., the role of "Jesus," Himself) also began with the legend of the "Fallen Angels." It was the Jewish "Scapegoat" ritual whereby all of Israel's sins were symbolically tied to the "Azazel" goat (the original "scapegoat" named after the supposedly "evil" leader of the "fallen" angels) that the religious concept was born that became the very "Savior" role, itself. Thus, were it not for this original Jewish practice whose role was filled by the prototype for "Satan," himself (namely, "Azazel"), Jesus as "Savior" and Christianity as a religion would never have come into being in the first place!
And there is the reality of where the first "angels" came from, as well as where the concepts of both "Satan" and the Christian "Savior" originated, as well. That's right... the astounding reality is that both spiritual polar opposites of a "Savior" and a "Satan" were both founded upon and evolved out of the same celestial being: "Azazel," the leader of the supposedly "Fallen Angels."
Now... their equal connection to the "Vampires" will be discussed briefly in my next post here.
Angels and Vampires: One and the Same
PART TWO:
As discussed in the previous entry, the accounts of the "Fallen Angels" found in the Old Testament and in Sumerian accounts were the first "angels" ever written about in history. All other accounts that followed were founded upon this first account -ever account of celestial beings descending from the skies and instructing Humankind. Additionally, their leader, known in Semitic accounts (e.g., the Bible) as "Azazel," was also the ironic prototype for both the chief "bad guy" of religion, namely "Satan," as well as also the prototype for the Christian "Savior" in taking upon himself (in the Jewish guise as the original "scapegoat") the sins of his people, in other words "Jesus," Himself. However, the connections do not end here. For in addition to the "fallen angels" having been even further vilified in later Biblical history as being "Satan" and his angels, they and their progeny also were later vilified as ... "Vampires."
As so eruditely and eloquently expounded in Andrew Collins wonderful book "From the Ashes of Angels" (p. 21), we read:
"...in the puritanical words of the Book of Enoch these corrupted souls (the progeny of the "Fallen Angels") are also destined to become the damned, who will 'take no food, [but nevertheless hunger] and thirst'... in East European folklore, as well as in popular romance, there are likewise supernatural denizens that drink blood yet can 'take no food, [but can nevertheless hunger] and thirst', and these are, of course, nosferatu - vampires."
"Romantic writers, for instance, became transfixed by the stories of the Sons of God coming unto the Daughters of Men, and began to feature these devilish characters in their poetic works. A little later, Victorian painters started portraying this same subject matter on canvas. One might even be tempted to suggest that the Book of Enoch was a major inspiration behind the darker excesses of the so-called Gothic revival, which culminated in such literary works as Bram Stoker's Dracula, in which the eponymously named character is himself a fallen angel."
The connection between the "Fallen Angels" ("Sons of God") and "Vampires," however, extends far beyond that of a simple connection of the two made by 19th-Century Romance writers. No, instead both the "Fallen Angel" myths and the original "Vampire" accounts from Eastern Europe both possess a strong sexual component found no where else in recorded history: both the original Sumerian "Anunnake" and their later Semitic parallel as the "Fallen Angels" as well as the Slavic "Vampires" were all males who possessed multiorgasmic capacity, which was why they were honored and revered in both Sumer and also Egypt... yet shunned as "fallen" and "evil" in Semitic accounts and, later in Eastern Europe once also dominated by Judeo-Christian religious beliefs.
Like their far-earlier flood story, so also the Sumerian version of the later "Fallen Angels" story differs greatly from the one written into the Bible over a millennia thereafter. In the original Sumerian accounts that predate the Bible's by over 2,000 years, the "Anunnake" and their progeny possessed and openly displayed an unprecedented, natural, male multiorgasmic capacity.
As previously stated, Sumer's first Kings were the "Anunnake" and their descendants. To ensure that only their descendants ruled, the Sumerians enacted a specifically male multiorgasmic king-making ceremony called the "Hieros Gamos" during which, before he could be crowned king, the King-to-be had to have public sex with a priestess of Inanna... and successfully do so non-stop "50 times". Only then would he prove himself a true descendant of the "Anunnake" and be crowned the new king. If he could not prove this multiorgasmic capacity, he would not be king.
Of course in the sexually repressed Semitic cultures of Canaan, this male multiorgasmic capacity was obliquely referenced (as all things sexual are in the Bible) and specifically demonized. Rather than finding themselves honored as were their Sumerian counterparts, instead the descendants of those called "Fallen Angels" were instead vilified as being "addicted to lust" and for which "crime" they and their families were slaughtered:
"Destroy all the souls addicted to (lust) and the offspring of the Watchers..." (Book of Enoch, ch. 10, v. 18)
But what, you might say, has this to do with "Vampires" and their connection to the "Fallen Angels"? The final piece to this puzzle follows in my third and final post... to follow this one.
