Same figure OgUj ibn Anaq

Literally the same figure. The Hebrew Bible’s Og, king of Bashan and last of the Rephaim, is carried into Arabic storytelling literature as ʿŪj ibn ʿAnāq — “Og son of Anak”, with the patronymic making the link explicit by naming the Anakim ancestor from Numbers 13.

What changes is scale. Deuteronomy gives a bed nine cubits long; the Arabic tellings give heights in the hundreds or thousands of cubits and have him wading the Flood. The figure is continuous, the measurements are not.

In this app: Og · ʿŪj ibn ʿAnāq

Same figure SaphSippai

The same Philistine, killed by the same man, spelled two ways: Saph in 2 Samuel 21:18 and Sippai in 1 Chronicles 20:4. Not a mystery, and not two giants — a spelling variant between parallel accounts, and the cleanest example in the corpus of why a name count is not a body count.

In this app: Saph / Sippai

Same figure OhyahSam

Ohyah, son of Shemihazah and the leading giant of the Qumran Book of Giants, appears as Sām in the Manichaean version of the same work — the text travelled from Aramaic into Middle Persian, Sogdian and Uyghur, and the name was localised on the way. The narrative role is unchanged.

In this app: Ohyah

Same figure SemjazaShemihazah

The chief of the two hundred Watchers who descended at Mount Hermon. Semjaza in the Ethiopic 1 Enoch, Shemihazah in the Aramaic Qumran fragments — one figure, two transmission paths. The app records him in the Fallen Angels choir; his sons Ohyah and Hahyah are in Named Giants.

In this app: Fallen Angels choir · Grigori / Watchers

Absorbed Gilgamesh

The clearest absorption in this whole dataset. Gilgamesh is a king in the Sumerian King List (126 years), a hero in the Babylonian epic (eleven cubits tall), and centuries later he is named among the giants in the Qumran Book of Giants — the Enochic Watcher tradition taking a Mesopotamian figure and filing him with the offspring of the fallen.

Same name, three literatures, three functions. Not a mistake by any of them: each tradition is doing something different with a figure it inherited.

In this app: Gilgamesh (Book of Giants) · Uruk — the dynasty

Absorbed HumbabaHobabish

The guardian of the Cedar Forest in the Epic of Gilgamesh, appearing in the Qumran Book of Giants as Hobabish, listed with the Watchers’ offspring. Absorbed by the same route as Gilgamesh, and in the same text.

In this app: Hobabish

Absorbed Azazel

Three roles across three layers. In Leviticus 16 Azazel is the destination of the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement — whether a place, a demon or an abstraction is disputed in the Hebrew itself. In 1 Enoch 8 he is a fallen Watcher who teaches metallurgy, weaponry and cosmetics, and bears the weight of the judgement. In later demonology he is a named demon.

The app holds him in two places at once: as a Watcher in Antiquity figures, and as a demon in the Hell inhabitants of Realm: Hell. Both are accurate to their own source layer.

In this app: Antiquity figures · Realm: Hell · Grigori / Watchers

Lexical merge NephilimGigantesTitans

This is the answer to “are the Greek gods the Nephilim?”, and it is not a figure-to-figure identity at all. It is a translation choice.

When Jewish translators rendered the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, they translated nephilim and gibborim as γίγαντες (gigantes) — the existing Greek word for the Giants who fought the Olympians. Genesis 6:4 and Nimrod in Genesis 10:8 both go through this door.

From that point a Greek reader met “giants” in Genesis and already knew what giants were: the Gigantes of the Gigantomachy. The two categories fused in the reading, not in the sources. Later Christian tradition inherited the fusion.

Strictly, the Olympians are not giants at all. Gigantes and Titans are separate races that the Olympians defeated. Anyone equating Zeus with a Nephil is three steps down a chain that began with a lexical convenience.

In this app: Named Giants — scripture · Named Giants — tradition · Nephilim

Lexical merge Rephaim

One Hebrew word doing two jobs. Rephaim names a giant people of the Levant — Og is called their last survivor — and it also names the shades of the dead in Sheol (Isaiah 14:9, Psalm 88:10, Job 26:5).

Whether these are one root or two that fell together is genuinely unresolved. The app records both: Rephaim as a race, and “Rephaim (dead)” as souls in the Hell realm. Treating them as obviously the same thing, or obviously not, both overstate what is known.

In this app: Rephaim (race) · Souls in realms

Parallel, not identical YmirPangu

Both are primordial giants whose bodies become the world — Ymir’s flesh the earth and skull the sky in the Norse Gylfaginning; Pangu’s limbs the mountains and breath the wind in Xu Zheng’s 3rd-century Sanwu Liji.

Not the same being, and not borrowed. Two traditions with no demonstrated contact arrived at the same solution to the same problem: if the world is made of something, what was it made of before there was anything? The resemblance is structural, and it is the kind of resemblance most often mistaken for descent.

In this app: Ymir · Pangu