The angels, the children of heaven, saw the beauty of mortal women. This book, which claims to have been written by Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, describes the events prior to the Flood. In it one of the most well known stories of Christian tradition is found: the story of the fallen angels (chapters 1-36). The term egregoroi also features the text of 1 Enoch, an apocryphal book from the period between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. Our Half-Life ‘father’ is named after angelic beings, while his actions are something different from what we associate with angelic behavior. The Septuagint translates aggelos (‘angels’), while Symmachus and Aquila renders egregoroi (‘watchers’). In Daniel 4,10.14.20, king Nebuchadnezzar has a dream in which he sees ‘a watcher and holy one come down from heaven.’ The Hebrew word iyr (from the verb ‘to wake’) in Daniel 4 is unique for the Old Testament texts, so its translation is rather difficult. ‘Father’ Grigori is probably derived from the angelic beings from the Daniel and 1 Enoch.

His soul southing, pastoral quotes of course get a rather cynical overtone. The only way left for Grigori is ending their misery. Apparently separating the crabs from their victims, means the death of the host. At a certain point the player enters a house with multiple dead zombies, with detached head crabs. The humans-turned-into-zombies are beyond recovering, as the player finds out when roaming the Ravenholm level. Grigori’s killing, at least in his own eyes, is not murder, but signifies salvation. Come my children! It is not me that you seek it is the light that I bring!.It is not me that you want, it is the light that shines through me!.Here are his quotes, randomly heart in the game. He ‘takes care’ of his zombified fellow inhabitants of Ravenholm by ‘saving their souls’, by which he means: shooting them in the head with a large shotgun. On both hand he has scars in the form of a cross. Around his neck hangs a crucifix with – together with his ranting – gives him the appearance of a Eastern Orthodox priest. Father Grigori is a middle-aged man with a shaven head, dressed in embroidered clothing and red Converse sneakers covered with Headcrab slime. When the player arrives in Ravenholm all citizens are taken over by the crabs, except for one figure: father Grigori. ‘Het laatste woord’ ~ Brabants Bont (gestopt).‘Zeg het maar’ ~ Dit is de dag (gestopt).

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