22 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
They swore they would sanctify the earth in bodies. God named the pull that would take them. Shemhazai wept for his sons' meals, not the rain.
The Watchers came down to instruct humanity. Among all the people alive in those ancient days, only one student mastered every lesson they brought.
When Saul lost divine favor, the watcher angels shifted roles. Their change from observers to enforcers was the first sign that his protection was gone.
Two hundred angels swore an oath on Mount Hermon and descended. Azazel taught weapons and cosmetics. Four archangels bound him under the desert.
Noah's skin shone white as snow at birth and his eyes lit up the room. His father Lamech ran to Methuselah convinced the child was not human.
Noah wept over the ruin he had survived. God rebuked him for not praying before it happened. Job suffered while still called God's servant.
A girl named Istehar asked Shemhazai for the Name that lifts a body into heaven. She spoke it and never came back down to him.
When the angel Shemhazai demands her love, Istehar agrees on one condition: teach her the Name. She speaks it and rises into the sky forever.
The rock had writing older than the rain. Kainam copied it into a hand Noah would never see, then went on looking for a city.
Enoch ascends through dark heavens, finds chained angels weeping in gloom, then silent Watchers stripped of light, still awaiting judgment.
Shamchazai and Azael descended to prove angels could master the earth. One hangs in repentance between the worlds; the other became a name in the desert.
Two hundred angels swore an oath together on Mount Hermon. Azazel taught men to forge blades and women to paint their faces. Raphael buried him upside down.
The women lined their eyes with kohl and walked to be seen, and the Watchers leaned over heaven's edge until they were no longer leaning but falling.
When the crowd demands proof of how God made man, Enosh breathes into clay, Satan enters it, and the first idol rises to its feet.
For one hundred twenty years Noah warned of water. The crowds mocked and boasted they would roof the earth with iron if fountains burst from below.
Angels wore men's forms, giants rose hungry, and the earth filled with blood until kin ate kin and the flood waited.
A heavenly boundary breaks when a star falls and Watchers take wives, until the waters answer the violation and eight souls cannot hold the world.
They were fire when they looked down. Cain's daughters walked with painted eyes, and the servants of heat stepped into flesh without burning it away.
A father counted suitors by cattle and character. Then a shadow fell at dusk no matchmaker could name, and the child outgrew the house.
The beasts waited, breathing. The greatest angel opened his mouth and found the world without handles. Only dust could name them.
Michael leads a living man up through heaven after heaven to a palace of crystal, past the chained stars, to the day when time itself burns out.
The giant sons of the Watchers dream of a flood that erases their kind and send Mahaway winging to Enoch to beg mercy heaven has already refused.
