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Legends and stories from around the world tend to focus on horrible monsters that terrorize people and stand to disrupt peace. But how then have so many cultures and tribes come to such similar conclusions about what kinds of monsters could be despite the barriers between geography and language? This book draws on biblical text and the Book of Enoch to suppose that, based on the information found in legends and scripture, these creatures must have had an origin and existed before being destroyed in the world-resetting flood of Noah’s time. Comparing the biblical stories of the Old Testament with Norse, Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythologies, among others, readers will see a plausible explanation for whether these monsters could have been real, how they could have come into being, and warning signs for how the modern era could result in more such creatures.
More than just compiling references and data about each time one of these creatures was mentioned in scripture, the author of this book adopts the argument that they had existed and had come into existence by their own means and follows it logically. There are plenty of cited sources that the curious can investigate to continue the research or to see how multiple cultures and religions reference similar, if not the same, events. By even drawing parallels to the things that science is becoming capable of, suddenly what felt like make-believe can hit a lot closer to home. Whether or not readers believe such things to be true before or after reading this book, it is no less admirable how thoroughly and clinically Szeto connects the dots, both in the Bible's chronology and through historical world events.