Contents

Cover Image

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

List of Figures

List of Charts

List of Maps

Author's Note

Chapter 1—I HAVE BEGOTTEN A STRANGE SON

The Sons of God

Celestial Mafia

Fear of Fallen Angels

Chapter 2—THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE

The Antediluvian Pillars

Walked with God

The Search for the Book of Enoch

Scaliger's Discovery

Fuelled by Fallen Angels

Chapter 3—DEMONIC DOCTRINE

The Secrets of Heaven

Plight of the Watchers and Nephilim

Descendants of Noah

Chapter 4—INSANE BLASPHEMY

Mani the Ignorant

Unorthodox Thoughts

Serpents that Walked

The Devil in Disguise

Chapter 5—VISAGE LIKE A VIPER

The Testament of Amram

Wingless Angels

As Tall as Trees

Shining Like the Sun

Eyes Like Burning Lamps

As White as Wool

Children of the Angels

The Shamanic Solution

The Face of a Watcher

Chapter 6—WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH

Races of Giants

King Og of Bashan

Source of the Nephilim

A Goat for Azazel

To Act Like Angels

Chapter 7—ANGELS IN EXILE

By the Rivers of Babylon

The Jews in Exile

A Man of Many Faces

On the Road with Raphael

Iranian Influence

The Fall of the Magi

The Tower of Daniel

The Angels of Zoroaster

Truth and the Lie

Laurence's Lucky Hunch

Chapter 8—TERRIBLE LIE

The Law of the Daevas

Chapter 9—BORN OF THE DEMON RACE

The Miraculous Birth of Zal

Compassion of the Simurgh

The Glorious House of Sam and Nariman

The Divine Glory

Chapter 10—ON THE EDGE OF DEATH

The Divine Physician

The Drug of Immortality

The Noble Vulture

Excarnation

Rites of the Vulture

Çatal Hüyük

Chapter 11—IN THE REALM OF THE IMMORTALS

The Iranian Expanse

Mountain of the Madai

Among the Angels

Chapter 12—EASTWARD, IN EDEN

The Journey to Heaven

Heaven – Fact or Fantasy?

The Rivers of Paradise

The Place of Descent

The Cradle of Mankind

Descendants of Giants

Chapter 13—THE PEACOCK ANGEL

The Angelicans

Roots of the Yezidi

The Shrine of Sheikh Adi

The Black Serpent

Power of the Evil Eye

The Jam Begins

The Greatest Angel

Descendants of Noah

Nomadic Rainmakers

The Secret Cavern

Chapter 14—CHILDREN OF THE DJINN

In the Shadow of Sultan Sahâk

Descendants of the Dragon King

The Utopian City of Tigranakert

Yaresan Creation Myths

Birds of the Angels

Born of the Djinn

Fear of Changelings

Chapter 15—WHERE HEAVEN AND EARTH MEET

The Fall of Kharsag

Had O 'Brien Been Correct?

In Search of Kharsag

The Hero Gilgamesh

The Argumentfor Mount Hermon

The Search for Dilmun

Source of the Waters

The Red-headed Tribesmen

Chapter 16—SLEEPING WITH GODS

Riddle of the Sacred Marriage

Crime of the Imdugud

Stela of the Vultures

Bodies of Birds

The Descent of Ishtar

The Search for Ut-napishtim

The Gift of Immortality

Domain of the Edimmu

As Old as Methuselah

Preserver of the Seed

Chapter 17—IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE WATCHERS

The Neolithic Explosion

Uncertain Forces

The Black Glass of Lake Van

Cave of the Angels

Wings of Shamans

Rites of the Goat

Among the People of Jarmo

Chapter 18—SHAMAN-LIKE DEMON

The Goat-men of Susa

Cult of the Great Goddess

Fear of the Evil Eye

The Nephilim Head

Chapter 19—BORN OF FIRE

Realm of the Peri

Ice Age Anatolia

The First Blacksmiths

The Cabiri of Phrygia

Houses of the Djinn

Archaic Christianity

Subterranean Worlds

Deep below Derinkuyu

The House of Darkness

Chapter 20—HELL-FIRE AND FLOOD

Beneath the Ice

Catastrophic Death

Hapgood's Answer

Fire from Heaven

The Fires of Hell

Two Floods?

Chapter 21—EGYPTIAN GENESIS

Roots of the Mandai

And Then Jericho

Down by the Water

An Egyptian Elder Culture?

The Long-headed Folk

The Watch Gods

Chapter 22—FATHER OF TERRORS

The World's Greatest Wonders

Horus and the Horizon

The Greatest Riddle

By Wind or Water?

Made in the Age of Leo

Chapter 23—KOSMOKRATOR

The Terrible Eye

Snakes in the Holes

Guardian of Infinite Time

The Lion-headed God

The Theft of Fate

Starry Numbers

Universal Language

Chapter 24—TRAGEDY OF THE FALL

Chapter 25—AMNESIA OF THE MASSES

Rosslyn's Fallen Angel

Paradise Lost

The Re-emergence of Atlantis

The Hidden Masters

The Sleeping Prophet

Ancient Astronauts

Colony Earth

The Watchers' Return

Fingerprints of the Gods

Tracing the Elders

Towards the New Millennium

Postscript

Notes and References

Bibliography

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