Giants, and the demons they leave

The children are neither men nor Watchers. When their bodies are destroyed, the spirits remain. That remainder is the Enochic origin of demons.

They devour the labor of men, then men, then each other. Heights are given in some recensions that are meant to be unbelievable. The point is not zoology. It is that a mixed being cannot be fed by a single world.

The sentence on the giants is not the sentence on the fathers. Gabriel turns them on one another. The Book of Giants gives them names and nightmares: a tablet washed clean, a garden uprooted. They have an inner life. It does not save them.

Chapters 15–16 explain the aftermath. Holy ones should have lived forever, in heaven, without women. Men die, and the earth is their place. The giants, born of both, die in body and remain in spirit, doing violence on the earth because that is what they were. Later ‘unclean spirits’ in Second Temple and Gospel texts sit on this ontology: not fallen angels, but the orphans of a descent.