Angelic · Archangels / Chief Princes · c. 200 BCE
Sariel
Also called Suriel, Sarakiel · also recorded as Suriyel, Esdreel, Sahariel, Juriel, Seriel, Sauriel, Surya, Saraqael, Jariel, Suruel, Surufel, Sourial, Sera (per Wikidata)
One of the seven archangels of 1 Enoch, set over the spirits who sin against the spirit. Canonical scripture never names him.
Narrow source base
One of the seven in 1 Enoch, and the one whose two jobs sit oddly together: he is set over the spirits who sin in the spirit, and he is also named among the angels who observe the courses of the moon. The second is what gets him into the astronomical chapters, which are the reason 1 Enoch was copied for centuries by people with no interest in fallen angels at all. Canonical scripture never names him. He survives instead in the Enochic and Qumran material and in the later lists that could not agree on which seven names to use, which is the ordinary fate of an archangel outside the three Rome allowed.
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
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Also known as
- First attested
- 1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch) · c. 300–100 BCE
- Rank
- Archangel
- Order
- Archangels / Chief Princes
- 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
- Jewish, Enochian
Traits
- Domain
- The courses of the moon, and the judgment of spirits
Stats
Known connections
Chain of command
3 attributed
What is it said to do?
Where these powers cluster
The 3 offices attributed to Sariel, grouped by kind. Segment width is the share of powers falling in each category.
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- knowledge1
- martial1
- material1
1 texts
Which texts say so?
Set over the spirits who sin in the spirit; also named among those who observe the courses of the moon.
“Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon.”
Connections
What is it connected to?
Answered from the sources
Common questions
Which texts mention Sariel?
What rank is Sariel?
How else is Sariel spelled?
What is Sariel said to do?
How old is Sariel?
Nearest in the corpus
If Sariel 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.
Gabriel
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
The messenger. The angel who explains Daniel's visions, announces two births in Luke, and in Islam delivers the entire Qur'an.
Michael
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
The warring archangel: prince of Israel in Daniel, captain of the host in Revelation, and the only angel the New Testament calls an archangel outright.
Raphael
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
The healer, whose name means 'God heals'. He spends the Book of Tobit disguised as a human travelling companion, which makes it the longest sustained portrait of an angel anywhere in the biblical corpus.
Uriel
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
'Fire of God' — the archangel of the fourth seat, never named in the canonical Bible, and formally struck from the approved list by a Roman synod in 745.
Raguel
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
The archangel who takes vengeance on the world of the lights — and one of those condemned by name at the Roman synod of 745.
Remiel
Archangel · Archangels / Chief Princes
Set over those who rise — the archangel of the resurrection and of true visions.
The book behind Sariel
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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