The disciples asked Jesus what things would be like in the last days before His return and He replied that it would be as in the days of Noah.  In the days of Noah there were giants as the result of angels mating with women.  Thousands of years ago, people passed down stories of giants that once roamed the earth.  People knew that they had descended from the fallen angels mating with women.  In Genesis 14 the first reference to a goddess is given by listing the city named after her, Ashteroth Karnaim.  Karnaim refers to two horned Astartes according to Jerome Smith¹ and the city name refers to Ashtaroth of double horns, where double horns is a symbol of the deity according to Strong.² Karnaim is the dual of qeren  and it is a ray of light literally, and has the meaning of power figuratively.  This city came to be known as Astharoth and can be located according to the Book of Joshua, Chapter 13:  ²⁹And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. ³⁰And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: ³¹And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. ³²These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. (KJV) Og was one of the giants that is mentioned in scripture.  

Gustave Dore represented Moses with qeren at right, depicting his appearance after meeting with Yahweh and receiving the Ten Commandments. 5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim Genesis 14:5 Ashteroth is also known as Astarte from the most ancient of times.  She was known as the consort of Bel (Baal) with her name in Sumer being Anath.  She is known as the Queen of Heaven and is an astral deity that God warned against following.  Interestingly the Rephaims, Zuzims, and Emims were descendents of the race of giants that were half-man and half angel.  It is believed and was believed in antiquity that these fallen angels and their offspring caused a lot of trouble.  The offspring raped whomever they chose and became cannibals.

In fact, Anath who later was merged with Astarte into the Queen of Heaven as Diana (Artemis) is noted for lusting after the blood of men in battles and it is not likely a coincidence.  The naive think anything from the other side is good. That is a mistake.  See The idea of light being associated with the sons of the gods is expressed in the Book of Noah.  Although apocryphal, it demonstrates this belief of light being associated with angels.  No doubt fallen angels retained this attribute as well.

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(NAB) The Holy Bible, The New American Bible, (Nashville, Tennessee: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) 1997.

(KJV) The Holy Bible, The King James Authorized Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

¹Jerome H. Smith, editor, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge [computer file], electronic edition of the revised edition of The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, ^©1992 by Jerome H. Smith.

²James Strong, New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, ^©1996.

³R. H. Charles, translator, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, Scanned and Edited by Joshua Williams, Northwest Nazarene College, 1995.