The record of Mesopotamian culture is insufferably dense. According to ancient sources, Yahweh was a Storm God. He was often depicted as riding a chariot in the clouds, and occasionally depicted with His Queen Consort Asherah. He swung His Royal Chariot low in a divine whirlwind in the ascension of Elijah.
He later took human form as Jesus, and his early adulthood is unaccounted for. I am unaware of a source within which Jesus pimps a ride, but he may have built a hot rod. It could easily be that over the last two millenia that if lampoil were running low, a scribe’s hand or concentration failing, an authority deeming it superfluous, or processed animal hide parchment in poor supply, tiny details could be lost. It seemingly would be of little consequence to most whether or not a Son Of Man had a hobby or pet project.
According to Genesis 4:22 Tubal-Cain instructed every craftsman in bronze and iron.
Super. Metal is fun. I like metal.
I have no idea who taught ancient Mesopotamians how to fish, cut rocks, weave baskets, read, or cook.
I do, for whatever extremely expensive reason know that Tubal-Cain (who has arguably the weirdest name of the era) was the metal guy.
Azazel was the “fallen” angel (Watcher/Annunaki/etc.) that was the first to commit blasphemy by teaching forbidden knowledge:
- And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures. 2. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways.
The Second Book Of Adam And Eve Chapter 20
1 After Cain had gone down to the land of dark soil, and his children had multiplied therein, there was one of them, whose name was Genun, son of Lamech The Blind who slew Cain. 2 But as to this Genun, Satan came into him in his childhood; and he made sundry trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals and psalteries, and lyres and harps. and flutes; and he played on them at all times and at every hour. 3 And when he played on them, Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished the heart… 7 Then Satan when he saw that they yielded to Genun and hearkened to him in every thing he told them, rejoiced greatly, increased Genun’s understanding, until he took iron and with it made weapons of war.
Tubal-Cain/Azazel/Azrael/Genun/another representation of Satan/another representation of The Great Serpent/etc. was the seventh generation from Eve through Cain.
Enoch (3292 - 2927 BC) was the sixth generation from Eve through Seth.
They were contemporary.
The Watchers/Giants/Nephilim/Annunaki of Enoch’s records are contemporary to Genesis 4.
Enoch (or “Ḥanokh” from a Hebrew root meaning “consecrate, initiate”) is recorded as being the author of at least 30 and perhaps as many as 366 texts, and the first person to receive ascension (becoming Metatron in Heaven in his 365th year).
If the Book Of Genesis (Bereshit) was not written by Enoch, then the Book Of Genesis was surely written by a later hand.
Without Enochic literature, Genesis simply cannot be understood, and Genesis was evidently written with regard to the prior existence of the materials within Enochic texts.
Enochic literature must be canonized to every individual that properly appreciates it.