Motif
Heavenly beings descend and transgress boundaries with human women
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A motif of the Divine Race and Arrival of the Gods family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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jewish pseudepigrapha
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The Book of Enoch WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE / REV. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, D.D. / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTERS; lines 1110-1185 confidence: high
Human daughters are born; the angels, children of heaven, see them, lust after them, and propose choosing wives from among them to beget children.
The angels, children of heaven, desire human daughters, swear an oath, descend on Mount Hermon, take wives, and beget giants.
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