Rank
Watcher
6 figures in this corpus are recorded as watcher. Rank here is a claim made by a particular text rather than a property of the figure, so the same name can hold different ranks in different sources — and where it does, the profile shows the disagreement instead of picking one.
Which texts assign this rank?
Who holds the rank of watcher?
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.
Kokabiel
Watcher · The Watchers
Taught the constellations — astrology as one of the forbidden arts brought down at the descent.
Penemue
Watcher · The Watchers
Taught humanity to write — which 1 Enoch treats as one of the gravest of the transmitted sins.