Enochian · Ge'ez (from Aramaic) · c. 300–100 BCE
1 Enoch (The Book of Enoch)
Anonymous; tr. R. H. Charles
The Book of the Watchers: two hundred angels descend, take wives, teach forbidden arts, and are bound. It names both the chief Watchers and the archangels sent against them.
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| Name here | Rank given | # | Powers described |
|---|---|---|---|
Anânêl = Ananel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| Chief of ten | — | Taught the signs of the earth. | |
Armârôs = Armaros | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Taught the resolving of enchantments (1 Enoch 8:3). |
Arâkîba = Arakiba | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| Chief of the Watchers | — | Taught the making of weapons and of cosmetics; all sin is ascribed to him and he is bound in Dudael. | |
Baraqijal = Baraqiel | Chief of ten | — | Taught astrology. |
Batârêl = Batarel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
Dânêl = Danel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| One of the holy angels | — | Set over paradise and the cherubim; sent against the children of the Watchers. | |
| Watcher | — | Led Eve astray, and showed the weapons of death to the children of men — the shield, the coat of mail and the sword. | |
Jômjâêl = Jomjael | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| Watcher | — | Showed the smitings of all the spirits and demons, and the smiting of the embryo in the womb. | |
| Chief of ten | — | Taught the constellations. | |
| One of the holy angels | — | Set over the best part of mankind; commanded to bind Semjaza and his associates. | |
| Watcher | — | Taught the bitter and the sweet, and instructed men in writing with ink and paper. | |
| One of the holy angels | — | Takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. | |
| One of the holy angels | — | Set over the spirits of men; commanded to bind Azazel and to heal the earth. | |
| One of the holy angels | — | Whom God set over those who rise. | |
Râmêêl = Rameel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
Samsâpêêl = Samsapeel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Taught the signs of the sun (1 Enoch 8:3). |
| One of the holy angels | — | Set over the spirits who sin in the spirit; also named among those who observe the courses of the moon. | |
Satarêl = Satarel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| Their leader | — | Proposes the descent, binds the two hundred by oath, and teaches enchantments and root-cutting. | |
The Watchers = The Sons of God | Those who descended | — | 1 Enoch expands the four verses of Genesis 6 into a full narrative: two hundred beings bound by oath on Mount Hermon, a named leadership, forbidden teachings given to humanity, and a judgment. Nearly everything commonly attributed to the sons of God comes from here rather than from Genesis. |
The giants = The Nephilim | Offspring of the Watchers | — | Fathered by the Watchers on human women, they consume the labour of men and then turn on them, and their destruction is part of the judgement pronounced on their fathers. |
Tâmîêl = Tamiel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
Tûrêl = Turel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
| One of the holy angels | — | Set over the world and over Tartarus; guide to the luminaries and the places of punishment. | |
Zaqîêl = Zaqiel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Named among the twenty leaders at 1 Enoch 6:7. The text gives him no teaching; later lists that supply one are inventing it. |
Êzêqêêl = Ezeqeel | One of the chiefs of tens | — | Taught the knowledge of the clouds (1 Enoch 8:3). |
What does it actually say?
The passages themselves, as this text gives them. Read them against what the other texts here say about the same figures — that comparison is the point.
AnânêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
AraqielChief of ten
“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.”
ArmârôsOne of the chiefs of tens
“Armârôs the resolving of enchantments”
ArâkîbaOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
“The whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel.”
BaraqijalChief of ten
“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.”
BatârêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
DânêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
“And to Gabriel said the Lord: ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one against the other that they may destroy each other in battle: for length of days shall they not have.”
“And the third was named Gâdreêl: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death to the sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men.”
JômjâêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
KasdejaWatcher
“And the fifth was named Kâsdejâ: this is he who showed the children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away, and [the smitings of the soul] the bites of the serpent, and the smitings which befall through the noontide heat, the son of the serpent named Tabâ’ět.”
KokabielChief of ten
“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.”
“Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ over chaos.”
“For men were not created for such a purpose.”
RaguelOne of the holy angels
“Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries.”
“Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.”
RemielOne of the holy angels
“Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.”
RâmêêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
SamsâpêêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“Shamsiêl the signs of the sun”
SarielOne of the holy angels
“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.”
SatarêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
“Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed.”
TâmîêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
TûrêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“And behold the names of those angels [and these are their names: the first of them is Samjâzâ, the second Artâqîfâ, and the third Armên, the fourth Kôkabêl, the fifth †Tûrâêl†, the sixth Rûmjâl, the seventh Dânjâl, the eighth †Nêqâêl†, the ninth Barâqêl, the tenth Azâzêl, the eleventh Armârôs, the twelfth Batarjâl, the thirteenth †Busasêjal†, the fourteenth Hanânêl, the fifteenth †Tûrêl†, and the sixteenth Simâpêsîêl, the seventeenth Jetrêl, the eighteenth Tumâêl, the nineteenth Tûrêl, the twentieth †Rûmâêl†, the twenty-first †Azâzêl†.”
“Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him:”
ZaqîêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“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.”
ÊzêqêêlOne of the chiefs of tens
“Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds”