Talk:Nephilim (disambiguation)

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[edit] Nephilim in popular culture

  • Nephilim Modulation Sessions, Ethereal Apocalyptic Politcal Hip Hop (Bigg Jus & Orko Elohim)
  • In Arch Hall Sr's movie "Eegah!", Arch Hall's character identifies the caveman creature as one of the Nephilim, and ends the movie by quoting the scripture from Genesis. The film was featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
  • Tim Powers' novel The Stress of Her Regard combines legends of vampires and Nephilim with the historical events surrounding Percy Byshe Shelley & Lord Byron's European exile.
  • The stage play (Love & Darkness) by Vancouver Island Playwright David Elendune depicts the Nephilim as a race of vampires - ie the resulting offspring of fallen angels and the daughters of man.
  • The book series The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski revolves around a modern-day teenage boy who discovers he is one of the nephilim. The four books have been made into a six-part TV series for ABC Family called Fallen.[1]
  • The trilogy Cradleland Chronicles features Nephilim as a frequent enemy. The Nephilim further interbreed with humans to produce a race called "nephlings." In addition, when nephilim die in the trilogy, their spirits exist as demons; weak compared to Angels and Fallen Angels, but capable of possessing humans and animals. The Nephilim were said to originally have been a plot by Satan to pollute human DNA and prevent the birth of Jesus later in the future.
  • The book Heaven Sent by Montre Bible tells a story of a half human, half nephilim teenage boy trying to find his purpose in life and deal with strange things in his life all connected to his status.[2]
  • Hex is a UK television series (2004-2005) about a remote country school that becomes the battleground between the leader of the Nephilim, Azazeal, and the witches that oppose it.
  • The Greek Melodic Death Metal band Septic Flesh have a song entitled "Nephilim Sons" on their 5th album, Revolution DNA.
  • In the Madeleine L'Engle novel Many Waters, set in the antediluvian era, Nephilim are present, and seduce and sleep with human women. The nephilim and women are generally perceived as being married, although the children seem to remain with their mothers.
  • The Light Brigade is a DC Comics four-part series in which the nephilim and the Grigori are Nazis trying to claim the world they think they should have controlled by finding the Spear of Destiny.
  • In the motion pictures The Prophecy II and The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, the creation of Nephilim was a major source of conflict between opposing camps among the angels. Gabriel (played by Christopher Walken) at first opposes the union between man and angel, but then relents after being made human for a period of time.
  • In the video game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness the Nephilim are a race angel-human hybrids that have died out. The corpse of the only remaining full-blooded Nephilim is referred to as 'The Sleeper' and is brought to Prague in a sarcophagus by a cult called "the Cabal" that wishes to resurrect the species in order to bring about a 'New Order'. The series heroine, Lara Croft, stumbles across this due to a string of murders (including that of a former mentor) and sets upon a quest to stop the cult from succeeding in their goals.
  • In the online video game Guild Wars, one of the unique hammer-type weapons is called "Gavel of the Nephilim".
  • In the official mythology of massively multiplayer online role-playing game Lineage II, Nephilim is the name for "an army of angels, whose dignified appearance featured platinum armor and wings of swords", created with the power of the Goddess of Light. Story also says that "the Nephilim were a fusion of the spirit of light into Human form". In the game itself, several kinds of Nephilims appear in underground locations as ordinary monsters to be defeated by players.[3]
  • The Invisible Masters of a series of erotic mind-control stories are hinted as possibly being Nephilim. The stories are presented as being based on investigations of the phenomena and the re-discovered repressed memories of victims.
  • In the video game Shadowbane, the Nephilim are one of the playable races, introduced by the Rise of Chaos expansion on December 9, 2003.
  • In Mick Farren's Renquist Quartet, the Nephilim are a race of ruled by a king named Marduk Ra. They conquered Earth in prehistory, and are the basis of all religions. They conducted experiments on primitive humans, creating a warrior race. The Nephilim then left Earth to pursue a war. The abandoned warriors became the basis of vampire legends.
  • The second verse of the Frank Black song "All My Ghosts" is all about the Nephilim:
    Have you heard about the heavenly angels
    How they came to earth and met some ladies
    With whom they mated
    And their young became giants every one
  • The Shivans in the computer game Descent: FreeSpace fly a heavy bomber codenamed Nephilim by the Terrans.
  • Format C: by Edwin Black features Anakim in the latter stages of the book as a race of giants who have survived in captivity over the years.
  • The Polish heavy metal band Behemoth wrote a song called "The Nephilim Rising" for their album Demigod.
  • The nephilim have been written about by David Icke in such books as Children of the Matrix where he takes the point of view that they are extra dimensional reptilian humanoids that have genetically manipulated human beings so as to make them more susceptible to possession (apparently this is done by a gene that makes one go into a trance-like state whenever there is any ritualistic patterns) so that they control us incognito.
  • Lynn A. Marzulli wrote a novel entitled Nephilim, in which abductions turn out to be the return of the Nephilim (as per the Book of Enoch). This book spawned the "Nephilim Trilogy" in which he interwove many popular occultic phenomena in an eschatological scenario; Azazel is the Antichrist of his trilogy.[4]
  • In the game Blue Stinger, Nephilim is the mysterious character that seems to follow the main character Elliot around, although her intentions are not known to Elliot.
  • Nephilim is a clan in the game GunZ:The Duel.
  • Derek Sherinian's album "Black Utopia" released in 2003 has a three part song entitled "The Sons of Anu". The third part is called "Return of the Nephilim".
  • Traci Harding's two written trilogies The Ancient Future Trilogy and The Celestial Triad refer to the nephilim in a fantasy/sci-fi setting.
  • In the TV show, Charmed (1998-2006), there are several characters who are the children of an angel (also known as a Whitelighter on the show) and a witch, who is a mortal human with inherited magical abilities. They are not referred to as Nephilim. The Elders, who are the head angels, are very much against witches and Whitelighters having romantic relations and even note the penalty will be unspeakable wrath. However, the Elders have, at times, reversed their position on this matter. See Whitelighter hybrid.
  • The song "Homicidal" (AKA "Genesis") by hiphop artist Immortal Technique as found on a 2006 Turntable Anhilists mixtape entitled "Underworld" makes a reference to Nephalim giants; "Lyrical Nephalim giant/look me up in the bible/the son of the son, Genesis six, homicidal"
  • In the horror movie The Fallen Ones, the Nephillim were giant offspring between Hammon, a fallen angel, and human women, feeding on humans for sustenance. After the flood, no more Nephillim were born until an existing Nephillim is resurrected. Four such were mummified and left buried in remote locations across the world. One of the creatures was resurrected in the south western area. Once shot, the smaller mummified servants emerge from their master's chest.
  • Art-rock band Meqqa's song "August Decree" talks of the Sons of God returning to earth in 2013. The song is included in the album Sors Salutis (2003).
  • Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels reference the existence of creatures resembling Nephilim or creatures with Nephilim-like parentage at various points in the trilogy. Angels are said to have come among the people of Cittàgazze and bred with them in the distant past. The angel Metatron states that he sympathized with the angels who loved the daughters of men but the Authority condemned them.
  • Tess Gerritsen's The Mephisto Club mentions a great deal about Nephilim and the books of Enoch and Jubilees. The Mephisto club is a crime fiction novel, and explorers the possibilities of Nephilim descendants co-existing along side us, and offers them as a suggestion to understanding such mass slaughterers as Vlad the Impaler
  • Jacqueline Carey's trilogy, Kushiel's Legacy, is centered around a race known as D'Angeline, descended from a mingling of angels and humans.[5]
  • Steve Alten's Domain featured the nephilim claiming they were an alien race that educated the human race, notably the Myans, Aztecs and Egyptians on advanced mathematics, sciences, and engineering.
  • The 2006 book The Pastor by Alan F. J Raeside defines a story about the invasion of a fictional California town Granite Hills by the Nephilim.
  • Nephilym is a local band from Fayetteville, NC.
  • Nephilim is a local progressive metal band from Sacramento, California.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ http://www.sniegoski.com/fallen/
  2. ^ http://www.montrebible.com
  3. ^ http://www.lineage2.com/background/chronicle3/chapter8_lilim.html
  4. ^ http://www.spiraloflife.com/trilogy.html
  5. ^ http://www.jacquelinecarey.com