A serpent / nachash / naga / dragon / dinosaur worshipping world common culture ruled over by superhuman elite.
What we need is a physical "candidate" for the superhumans then. The nephilim, annunaki, titans, giants, asura, deva... A race separate from what we think of as humanity, but able to interbreed with them.
This race must surely have had the attributes of fairytale ogres- brutish strength, monstrous and somewhat variable appearance- sub-breeds of a single awesomely powerful and wickedly clever species.
In short, Neanderthal Man.
Neanderthals match all the attributes of not only the ogres of the nursery but also of the supposed secret alien race living amongst us.
In fact with the proven interbreeding between the physically and mentally inferior but more prolific "us" type humans aka homo sapiens, and the neanderthals and their subtypes, we have not only a perfectly fitting explanation for all those old stories about trolls, ogres, horned devils and even elves and pixies- but also for the basis for the "lost races", the secret chiefs, the titans and all the rest.
Without getting into the whole nephilim and fallen angel thing, it's pretty clear that "our" recent arrival came out of a lot of interbreeding with now-departed subtypes of humanity- the horned giants from the americas, the hobbits from eurasia, the almas from russia and china, the giants of ireland and britain, the ogres and trolls of the northern lands, and so on.
As the "winners" in the genetic arms race, our direct ancestors stole pretty much everything from the races they defeated, but recent science has proven our inferiority to Neanderthals- we're smaller, weaker, stupider and softer in general than them. Our "power" was the ability to reproduce in genetically stable forms instead of constantly producing offshoots and new types of "goblin" or "ogre". It's gone unnoticed it seems, but there is a staggering proliferation of shapes and sizes in "pre-human" hominid finds. It's rare to see any real consistency of form at all in their family groups. And this is in keeping with the most ancient legends, where interbreeding with gods, monsters and giants produced elementals, misshapen dwarves and giants, cannibal ogres, tentacular monstrosities and animal headed or limbed one-off freaks- who nevertheless had children.
If the real sacred bloodline of the dragon kings is based on neanderthal eugenics then that would explain a lot- child abduction and sacrifice, cannibalism, and the general bloodlust of the human race would vary in direct proportion to the amount of "old school" blood a strain of modern human has...
It would also finally explain why so much from the days of Nimrod, the manhunter, seems to be resurrected so persistently by the hidden masters of the modern world...
