Is Raised by Wolves based on a book

Okay get your tinfoil out and hear me out... HBO's Raised by Wolves is based on The Book of Enoch, specifically The Book of the Watchers. These deal with an extremely early take on creation that likely inspired some judeo-christian beliefs and stories. It is a book obsessed with heaven and hell, demons and angels, and even nephilim—the hybrid offspring of "the sons of God" and "the daughters of men" that a rebellious group of fallen angels took and cultivated before the Deluge—The story of God's decision to return the Earth to its pre-creation state of watery chaos and then remake it in a reversal of creation. You know, the one with the ark?

Let's start with something The Book of Enoch actually describes in detail, the origin of demons. According to Enoch, they are the disembodied spirits of nephilim...

And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits (Angels) and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement.—Enoch 15:8–12, 16:1 R.H. Charles

I think this is describing the creatures that recently started attacking the camp. We've even seen them scour for food and NOT take any. They are literal demons, but what that implies is even crazier.

Kepler-22b is a planet that at least was the Garden of Eden, and probably the great flood.

Humanity was either created there, or taken there in some effort to elevate and heavenly integrate through reproduction by some advanced beings known as the Watchers, fallen angels who took humans, created nephilim, and taught everybody everything under the sun including astronomy—which we've already seen a little of in episode five. I think this mirrors the android's efforts with the children pretty well. If you are still unconvinced at this point, don't worry, I've only just begun, and check out the introduction to The Book of Enoch...

The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and said -Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.

Kepler-22b does not seem to be many things, but it is remote... We also have a humanoid that moved the beacons and leaped through the mithraic survivors, it could be a human who beat them all there by a few years—I suggest it is a nephilim from the remnants of humanity before them. One of possible few that somehow escaped the demonic fate of the rest and kept living on the planet...

But wait, wait, wait...

So we have this great parallel between stories of humanity's rebirth, but what about the fiery dodecahedron that killed a high priest? The giant serpent skeletons? The huge holes in the ground? The voices? The rapist? The weirdly violent vision fake Marcus had with the scalpel? The next episode being called Lost Paradise? This is where shit gets even more weird, but again, bare with me...

Kepler-22b is also a prison for the fallen angel Lucifer Azâzêl, and he's already cultivating an antichrist.

But who's Azâzêl? Oh just another fallen angel responsible for introducing humans to forbidden knowledge, specifically in the Book of Enoch. Moving past the straight up serpents, we have a voice that told a rapist to rape—maybe in an effort to create orphan children for this prophecy—and told fake Marcus something, something that led to him becoming leader that night, specifically stated by one man, a prophet. But fake Marcus is a funny guy, he's just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. Really though, he is a pretender who became a full blown false prophet that night. Fake Marcus is starting to come up Antichrist.

This seems like a reach yeah? But remember that golden scalpel he was holding in his blood soaked vision? That golden scalpel forged from holy relics he had never seen before in waking life? That's now the Lance of Longinus—The holy spear that pierced the side of Jesus. It's not a coincidence that Tempest kills a demon, a disembodied nephilim, by piercing the side with it. Jesus, being "The Son of God" and born of a daughter of men, can be regarded as a nephilim as well. There is even the origin of the name Marcus, pre-christian and ancient Roman. To have him of all people hold it just hammers the point home. I don't think he will be a friend to any other prospective prophets.

Yet the rapist was told to rape, and impregnated. There is a prophecy of "An orphan boy who dwells an empty land." I think this has to do with a new bid by Lucifer Azâzêl to create nephilim as candidates for this prophecy. In the middle of everything Enoch, we have Mother and Father and the natural process they are so concerned about. I argue these children born of artificial means are hybrid children that can be interpreted as nephilim, bolstered only by Mother's angelically wrathful after-hours appearance. Enter Campion, and his "exceptional" nature. I also suggest another, and this episode seems to confirm it—Tempest's unborn child. In episode five she seems to decide to use artificial means to carry and deliver. If she and the rapist manage to die, that child becomes another orphan in an empty land.

We have demons, we have a dodecahedron. I suggest Lucifer Azâzêl was once part of these watchers described in The Book of the Watchers, and was imprisoned on Kepler-22b for taking humans and making nephilim. He now speaks through that relic the mithraic have taken to, and I imagine wants out. Antichrist may help with that.

EDIT: Azâzêl was a Watcher and was actually imprisoned in "an opening in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl, and cast him therein." An underworld of sorts and remains there until "the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire." So this seems to fit with some things seen so far.

If this all still seems like reaching, just remember Blade Runner, Prometheus, and Alien Covenant. Ridley Scott has tackled all of these subjects (Angelic aliens, androids that blur the line of humanity, space Jesus, creation of humanity, god's decision to undue/remake said creation, the fall of Lucifer—specifically Milton's Paradise Lost, warping of lifeforms to create monsters, etc.) in one form or another, and this seems to be the most polished and fleshed out take yet. Get weird with it Aaron & Ridley, I've been waiting for something like this for a while...

EDIT: There are still a lot of details to fill in, and this definitely isn't the only religious work at play, we got ancient Roman and Greek mythology going on as well. I'm now sure I was wrong about Lucifer, instead now pointing at Azâzêl, another fallen angel. I'm sure there are a few complete curve balls still coming as well, so this post is probably not going to age well—But hopefully it gets people watching and realizing that there is definitely a huge religious subtext worth digging through.

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