Wild Beasts (Part 2)
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, when a shepherd happened upon them in a cave. Thanks to the dry climate, both the parchment and papyrus had been well preserved. Besides a Hebrew version of the Old Testament, they also contained fragments of the Book of Enoch.
Compared with his grandson Noah, Enoch was far less well known. This book recorded events that had taken place before the Great Flood.
In ancient Rome, the review of books had always been the responsibility of the Roman censors of cultural works, but this office was gradually replaced by Christian monks. The Church had long borne the stigma of suppressing thought, yet even now that the secular world had freedom of publication, the clergy still had no intention of changing.
The Book of Enoch contained material that was suspected of slandering angels. When angels descended to earth and married human women, they fathered Giants. Because the Giants were so enormous, they ate far more than ordinary people, so they began seizing human food and livestock, and even eating humans. Thus, a horrific war erupted between humans and Giants.
This was much the same as the Giant Wars recorded by wizards. The difference was that the Giant Wars did not record the Giants' origins, but rather the process of fighting them.
Giants loved drinking and often had no restraint, wanting to drink themselves into a stupor. This became one of their weaknesses during the Giant Wars. At the time, wizards and Muggles had not yet separated; rather, they fought side by side. Even after the Giants were defeated and fled into the forests, they were still hunted down, nearly driven to extinction.
In ancient Greek mythology, after Kronos overthrew his father Uranus, he swallowed each of his children the