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The Nephilim

In the Hebrew Torah as well as the Christian Old Testament there is a reference to “the sons of God,” or Angels, being sexually attracted to and marrying “the daughters of men,” which gave rise to a breed of creature that was half angel-half man. The Bible calls these beings “Nephilim,” which in Hebrew means, “those causing others to fall.” Thus the creatures, the children of angels and men were forever labeled as “bad.” But what if rather than being born with an inborn bent toward what is wrong, they were free to choose between good and evil, just as humans are.

Using that as a jumping point I wanted to portray what I felt a Nephilim would look like without the negative connotations of the past traditions; a mingling of the Heavenly and the earthly, a child of both the spiritual realm and the sensual world of flesh and bone. Not satisfied with “just” an ordinary Nephilim I added my interpretation, and that is that this particular Nephilim is also gay. This Nephilim craves to join the purity of spirit with the passion of physical union. This Nephilim embodies the best of both worlds, the spiritual and the physical, making him a creature that “causes others to fall in love,” with who and what they are.