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 first time hearing about enoch... 📝  
 oh cool, you'll be very interested to read it

it is very likely that the first 20 or so chapters of genesis were based on his account 
 Amazing Old Testament prophet who did not languish in death, but ascended to heaven. 
 yeah, for how important he was to the jews of 2000 years ago he didn't feature much in the catholic hot hits compilation

in the Book of Jasher it goes into some detail about how for some hundred years or more he was holding classes to teach all the kings of the earth... i forget exactly when but it was around age 300 that he was "taken up to heaven"

i should just add that there is a lot of data points suggesting that for the "gods" or "Titans" of northwest africa that in their idiom, ascending to the stars was actually a form of memorial of their death

but i'm not sure 100% - i do know for sure that people who had relatively close genetic connections to these different kind of humans were said to have lifespans of 800-1200 years and that they had been around since the beginning of the last galactic age (~25000 years) and that the events of Adam and enoch happened in the last 3000 years before the great flood catastrophe

it is possible, since they must have mastered space flight and were able to migrate to "new earths" (the Dogons point to the region around the Pleiades as being part of the region they left for), that indeed they mastered indefinite lifespans as well

reading the biblical family trees and mapping them out only puts Adam at 4500 years ago but the geological evidence (as in rocks, not carbon dating) points to the possible date of a global catastrophe at 12000 years ago and that the aftermath took almost 1200 years to fade, a minor glaciation called the ice age or the Younger Dryas was suddenly cut short by something that suddenly heated up the earth and at around the same time there much of the sahara was formed, in Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya they suggest that it was incinerated by a massive object that flew at a low pass across from west india and turned everything from the middle east to mauritania into char, removing so much of the carbon that it became desert via combustion... this is also referred to in multiple mythologies, some talk about a fire dragon that has a great battle across the sky and the origins of old stories of dragons at all, possibly related to Yormundangr and Enso and other mythological snake/dragons that left a trail of destruction 
 So interesting!  Yes, this sounds more plausible than the Bible on these subjects. I do believe the titans and giants were one and the same, with the evolution of semantics being what it is.  I mean, the Greeks have 8 words for love, for crissakes.  The need for religion(s) to explain away cataclysmic events, so that they can corral/exploit the emotions of the “profane” is just criminal.  As a Christian, I am not apostate, yet I have questions.   And we are subject to a history inscribed by the victors of bloody state/territory wars. Kinda sus.