<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:54 PM, James B. Jordan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font size="3">Theological allegory part II. <br><br> <x-tab> </x-tab>First, he would seem to be the offspring of the sons of God (angels / Wolder men) and the daughters of men. Such men became nephilim, strong ones, men of renown (Gen. 6). [Note: though this is a common read of Genesis 6, it does not hold water in the text. Anyway...] </font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Note that "The Dunwich Horror," one of the finest HPL tales (S.T. Joshi, usually quite good, totally misses the mark here; Ken Hite nails it in his "Tour de Lovecraft"), is something of a reprise of a well-known story about the offspring of (a) God and a human woman.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>