~Prologue

Book of Jubilees 7:22~23

“And they begat sons [ and daughters ]…and they were all unalike…[ they were ] Giants [ and Titans ]…Nephilim, [ the Elioud(2) ] and the Eljo(3)...”

Compilation from the Apocrypha

“And these angels, who were the Watchers(5) and the Grigori(6), and who begat the Giants, the Nephilim, and the Eljo, taught them divine secrets: of working metal and stone, of enchantments, of astrology, of clouds, and of all the signs of the earth, sun, and moon. And the heavens were divided, as angels turned against their kind and against God.”

Book of Numbers 13:33

“And there we saw the Giants, the sons [ and daughters ] of Anak, which come of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers...”

Jude 1:14~15

“Enoch...[decried], 'Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of [ Heavenly Angels ] to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him.'”

Book of Revelation 12:7~9

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against [ the chief angel of the Chiefs of Tens(7), ] the Dragon(8); and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great Dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil…which deceiveth the whole world: [s]he was cast out into the earth,and h[er] angels were cast out with h[er].”

Book of Revelation 20:1~3

“And…an angel [Michael] c[a]me down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit...And he laid hold on the Dragon [ who was Lucifael and Heylel ]…and bound h[er] a thousand years, and cast h[er] into the bottomless pit, and shut h[er] up, and set a [ Great Seal(9) ] upon h[er], that [s]he should deceive the nations no more…till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that [s]he must be loosed a little season.”

2~Peter 2:4

“For...God spared not the angels [, the corrupted Grigori and Chiefs of Tens ] that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness...”

Sibylline Oracles - Book 1:285~289

"Chiefly the shapes [ and spirits of Damons, and of the Chiefs of Tens, and ] of Titans born of old, and Giants, and all whom the Deluge(11) whelmed, and all that perished in the billowy seas, and all that furnished banquet for the beasts and creeping things and fowls, these in a mass shall [Uriel ] summon to the judgment-seat; and also those whom flesh-devouring fire, destroyed in flame, even these shall he collect..."

Book of Ezekiel 32:27

“And [ the sons and daughters of men ] shall not lie with the mighty [ Damons and Nephilim ] that are fallen...which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war.”

Wisdom of Solomon 14:6

“For in the old time also, when the [ mighty and prideful ] Giants perished [ in the Great Deluge ], the Hope of the world...escaped in a weak vessel, and left to all ages a seed of generation.”

Hebrews 11:15

“By faith Enoch was taken up [ into Heaven ] so that he should not [ experience ] death, and he was not [to be] found, because God had taken him. Before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.”

Book of Enoch 12:1~2

“And then Enoch disappeared and none of the sons of men knew where he was hidden, where he was, or what had happened. And all of his doings were with the Holy Ones, and with the Watchers, in his days.”

~Adapted Scriptural Footnotes:

Book of Moses 8:18

“And in those days there were giants upon the earth, and they sought Noah to take away his life...”

Book of Moses 7:27

“And Enoch beheld angels descending out of heaven, bearing testimony...and many were caught up by the powers of heaven...”

Book of Moses 8:29

“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt [ with the seed of the Grigori, the Nephilim, the Elioud and Eljo ], for all [ grotesque Damon(10) ] flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.”

1-grotesque - In context: Collectively, Damons in physical and mortal form. Damons are primarily entities not fashioned by God's Hand during the original days of Creation. These include the Nephilim, Giants, Elioud and Eljo, and all other mythical creatures of divine or abominable design, created through forbidden unions between Grigori and Man, beasts, and other earthly elements. (e.g.: Grotesque: A Gothic Epic is a medieval epic saga of these precise grotesque Damons as seen through the eyes of our gothic hero, Lazarus Gogu, who is himself, generally a Damon Elioud, but specifically a grotesque Eljo (see: Eljo).

2-Elioud - In context: Also referred to as 'Eljo' in Apocryphal manuscripts. Those Damons who posses various combinations of beastly, and angelic features and qualities. Grotesque or grotesque-like in nature, but mostly with little to no human characteristics. Chimeric, yet with combined beastly features only ( e.g. Griffin or Sphinx ).

3-Eljo - In context: As named in the Book of Jubilees. A distinct class of 'Elioud.. Those Damons who posses various combinations of human, beastly, and angelic features and qualities. Grotesque or grotesque-like in nature, but mostly with human appearance and qualities. Chimeric, yet with mostly or completely human features. (e.g.: Lazarus and Ivana Gogu, and the Satyr, Agrimonia).

4-Apocrypha - In context: Canonical books ordered censored and hidden away by the Holy See for its controversial subject matter. Derived from the Greek word apokryphos, meaning 'cryptic, hidden, secret'.

5-Watchers – Also called 'Watchers of the World' or 'Earthly Angels' (vs. Heavenly Angels). During Creation, a third part of the Heavenly Angels were sent down from Heaven to see after the Lord's newly-created world. They were assigned as its sole caretakers, together, oveseeing Life, Waters, Land, Beasts, Man, and all earthly affairs. Of these Watchers, a large part of them (see: Grigori) took the world for themselves, having offspring with everything that they desired. Nine in ten corrupt Watchers were eventually cast into Hades for later judgement. One in ten, were placed under the authority of another condemned Watcher Angel, Mastema (see: Chiefs of Tens), who remained upon the earth in spirit form, continuing such duties as caretakers. Altogether they were stripped of their flesh so that they could no longer mingle with the sons and daughters of men. After which, the Throne passed a great flood over the face of the earth, washing away all corruption of flesh that the Watchers had since caused through perverse and unnatural acts against Creation.

6-Grigori – Also the 'corrupt Watchers' who were cast into Hades, with the Great Seal placed over them (see: Great Seal). Distinction made that most all of the Watchers were imprisoned in Hades, specifically 9 out of every 10 Earthly Angels. 1-in-10 Grigori remained on earth as merely shades and spirits of their former selves, overseen by the Chief Angel, Mastema, of the Chiefs of Tens. These remaining few angelic spirits continued their duties as Earthly Angels, and were also allowed to torment and tempt the children of men, through a divine pact made between Mastema and the Lord, sparing them from immediate damnation. After the pact, every Earthly Angel (see: Watchers) was stripped of his flesh; and the Throne passed a great flood over the earth (see: Great Deluge), washing all corrupt flesh from its face. (e.g.: the Angels Bestimedeus and Hominedeus, Lucifael, Apollo, Cerberus, Tethys and Oceanus, Azrael and Azazel, Demeter and Mastema).

7-Chiefs of Tens – Those tribal heads of the corrupted Watchers (see: Mastema) who rebelled against God and Creation, fashioned evil against Man, and were cast down into Tartarus (see: Tartarus) and whose former flesh was banished from the sight of the world. (see: Enoch 68:2)

8-Dragon - In context: The Angel Lucifael (Morningstar or Heylel), and chief angel of the fallen Chiefs of Tens. Otherwise known as: Angel of Light and Beauty, and once headmost angel of God.

9-Great Seal – A divine mechanism crafted by the Hand of God prior to the Great Deluge, and consisting of three independent monoliths (gatestones) inscribed with angelic tongue, which keep the corrupt and imprisoned Watchers from escaping Hades. These three gatestones work together as a sealed gate, much like three dependent tumblers of a single lock. During the final days of the War of Angels, they were individually forged in, what is now known as Central China, France, and Central Italy.

10-Damon – A being or entity not created during the Throne's Original Six Days of Creation. A spiritual or mortal form that enhabits the mortal realm, yet possess no soul, never living the life of a mortal man. Most Damons are spawned as product of divne seed (see: Grigori and Watchers), and other facets of Creation, like man, beasts, elements, and other Damons. Titans, giants, chimeras, dryads sprites, imps, succubi and incubi, and the vast majority of the Nephilim are examples of Damons. Since the Elioud and Eljo are Grigori-human hybrids (reference: Lucifael and Friar Ivan Gogu), Lazarus would likewise fall under this classification (also see general term: grotesque).

11-Great Deluge – The method chosen by God to clean the face of the world of of the corrupted seed of the Grigori, Nephilim, Elioud and Eljo was a world-encompassing flood that drowned all corrupted flesh, ensuring a return to the original flesh of man and beast as originally designed by the Lord in the Days of Creation. Following this great flood—and His cleansing of Creation—the Earthly Angels were stripped of all flesh, and forbidden by the Throne to commune with the children of mortal men. Only 1-in-10 Watchers not cast down into Hades, were allowed to remain on earth, in spirit only, to continue Watcher duties as caretakers of the earth.

12-Tartarus – Also mentioned as 'Hades', 'Hell' or 'Gehenna'. A region of imprisonment guarded by a Great Seal of three divinely created Gatestones, forged ahead of the Great Deluge (see: Great Deluge).

“And of the Angels, [ the sons and daughters of God, ] a great number of them lusted after the creatures of the earth, and chose mates from them and bore children with them. And from this miscegenation - from this perversion – grotesque(1) beings emerged.”

Dead Sea Scrolls: Book of Giants 1Q23; 4Q531

“And it came to pass—when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, [And]…the sons [ and daughters ] of God…took them wives [ and husbands ] of all which they chose. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons [ and daughters ] of God came in unto the [ sons and ] daughters of men, and they bare children to them, [ their children ] became mighty [beings]...”

Book of Genesis 6:1~2; 4

“And it came to pass—when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters [ and sons ]. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another, ‘Come, let us choose wives [and husbands] from among the children of men and beget us children.’”

Book of 1~Enoch 6

* Embellished and enhanced scriptural verses organized for dramatic effect, as seen in bracket notation and fictional augmentation.Enhanced. Enhanced illustrations derived from sketches by Gustave Doré.

~Gallery:

Vol. I: Prol. ~ finis.

Opening Chapter~

~1: The First Seal

“Lizzie, Lizzie, have you tasted
For my sake the fruit forbidden?
Must your light like mine be hidden,
Your young life like mine be wasted,
Undone in mine undoing,
And ruin’d in my ruin,
Thirsty, canker’d, goblin-ridden?”
~C. Rossetti

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