Angelic · The Watchers · c. 200 BCE
Kokabiel
Also called Kokabel, Kawkabel
Taught the constellations — astrology as one of the forbidden arts brought down at the descent.
Narrow source base
Taught the constellations, and is credited in some manuscript traditions with a command of hundreds of the Watchers besides. The teaching is the part that matters here: the sky read as a set of signs is precisely the knowledge 1 Enoch's own astronomical chapters go on to set out at length under angelic authority, so the book condemns in chapter 8 something close to what it authorises in chapters 72 to 82. That tension is not a contradiction to be resolved; it is the text drawing a line between knowledge given and knowledge stolen, and the line is the doctrine.
Identity
Where does the name come from?
Where it was actually worshipped
None. The Watchers are names in a list in 1 Enoch, most of them appearing exactly once; nothing was ever built for any of them, and Mount Hermon is where they are said to have come down rather than anywhere they were served.
A figure with temples and a figure that only ever existed on a page are different kinds of thing, and the difference is easy to lose once both are entries in a list.
At a glance
Vitals
Vitals
Also known as
- First attested
- 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) · c. 300–100 BCE
- Rank
- Watcher
- Order
- The Watchers
- Base of operations
- None. The Watchers are names in a list in 1 Enoch, most of them appearing exactly once; nothing was ever built for any of them, and Mount Hermon is where they are said to have come down rather than anywhere they were served.
- Era
- c. 200 BCE
- Traditions
- Enochian
Traits
- Domain
- The constellations
Stats
Known connections
Chain of command
2 attributed
What is it said to do?
Where these powers cluster
The 2 offices attributed to Kokabiel, grouped by kind. Segment width is the share of powers falling in each category.
A bar dominated by one colour means a specialist; an even spread means a figure the sources credit with almost anything.
- knowledge1
- divination1
1 texts
Which texts say so?
Taught the constellations.
“And these are the names of their leaders: Samîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl.”
Connections
What is it connected to?
Answered from the sources
Common questions
Which texts mention Kokabiel?
What rank is Kokabiel?
How else is Kokabiel spelled?
What is Kokabiel said to do?
How old is Kokabiel?
Nearest in the corpus
If Kokabiel is what you came for, these are next
Chosen by proximity rather than by popularity: the same pantheon first, then the same rank, then the same kind of figure.
Araqiel
Watcher · The Watchers
One of the two hundred Watchers who descended in 1 Enoch. He taught the signs of the earth, which is to say geomancy.
Baraqiel
Watcher · The Watchers
Taught astrology; his name means 'lightning of God'.
Gadreel
Watcher · The Watchers
1 Enoch names him rather than the serpent as the one who led Eve astray, and credits him with inventing weapons besides.
Kasdeja
Watcher · The Watchers
Taught the smitings of the spirits and the demons, and the striking of the embryo in the womb.
Penemue
Watcher · The Watchers
Taught humanity to write — which 1 Enoch treats as one of the gravest of the transmitted sins.
Ananel
Chief of Ten · The Watchers
Of the thirteen chiefs of tens, his is the only name that reaches English in a single form — the rest arrive with two spellings or three. What does not arrive at all is any account of what he did after the descent.
The book behind Kokabiel
Every claim on this profile is attributed to one of these. It is public domain, listed oldest first, and each links to a full text where one is freely available.
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles · c. 300–100 BCE · Ge'ez (from Aramaic)
Read 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) in full ↗Cover: Public domain · Wikimedia file page
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