In this week’s podcast, I discuss the rather strange and shadowy Nephilim, or Watchers, mentioned very briefly at various points in the Bible and at much greater length in the apocryphal Books of Enoch, while stopping over various mythologies and points in history.

Here is the full embedded podcast:

Links to various things mentioned in the podcast:

• Genesis 6;
• Daniel 4;
• The description of the Watchers as given in Infogalactic;
• The origins of the Aztec sun-god Huitzilpochtli;
• A comparison of Christian and Confucian ethics;
• Immanuel C. Y. Hsu’s superb history of China;