{"id":4930,"date":"2025-03-11T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ran-into-this-while-researching-the-watchers-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:45:37","slug":"ran-into-this-while-researching-the-watchers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ran-into-this-while-researching-the-watchers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ran into this while researching the Watchers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching the Watchers, I came across a fascinating description by the ancient historian Philo of Byblos. In his work, he refers to Sanchuniathon, who noted the existence of &#8220;some living beings without perception, from which intelligent beings emerged. These were known as Zophasemin (Heb. \u0219\u014dp\u0113-\u0161\u0101mayim, meaning &#8216;Watchers of Heaven&#8217;), and they were shaped like an egg.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nWhile researching the Watchers, I came across a fascinating description by the ancient historian Philo of Byblos. In his work, he refers to Sanchuniathon, who noted the existence of &#8220;some living beings without perception, from which intelligent beings emerged. These were known as Zophasemin (Heb. \u0219\u014dp\u0113-\u0161\u0101mayim, meaning &#8216;Watchers of Heaven&#8217;), and they were shaped like&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/ran-into-this-while-researching-the-watchers-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Ran into this while researching the Watchers.&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}