The bni elohim ( Hebrew for "sons of god") appear in the book of Genesis as non-human giant men who mate with human woman, sharing their knowledge of the universe. This union changed and corrupted the race of man beyond god's design. This provokes god to create the great flood killing all but Noah's family.

In the majority of biblical translations the elohim were fallen angels. In others and in apocryphal books of the bible such as the Book of Enoch, their origin is more complicated. There are depictions of the Elohim as a type of divinity silently present at creation, a speculation that brings up a Christian polytheism.

In the contemporary UFO conspiracy world, the Elohim are a favored for looking into the past for evidence of alien life on earth.

Gerard De Nerval was a writer in France in the mid-nineteenth century whose work would later greatly influence surrealist literature. His narratives, most often told in first person, blurred different modes of reality. Besides his relationship to surrealism he was also a progenitor for science fiction, particularly Phillip K. Dick.

De Nerval suffered with dementia at different times and with varying degrees of severity, during his adult writing life. Much like his character in the Tale of the Caliph Hakim he could believe at times that he was divinity on earth.

Associative time line; biblical creation and destruction myths; mid nineteenth century, birth of modernism; sci-fi alien speculation and the future.

The relation of divinity, the modernist death of myths, and aliens taking on the role of the divine.