{ "meta": { "schema_version": "1.2", "endpoint": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/index.json" }, "work": { "slug": "enoch-astronomy", "name": "Book III — Astronomical Book", "stream": "egyptian-hebrew", "epoch_reflected": "egypto-chaldean", "epoch_written": "greco-latin", "form": "Jewish apocalyptic / pseudepigrapha", "tradition": "Jewish pseudepigrapha", "author": "Anonymous (1 Enoch compositors)", "year_approx": -200, "note": null, "books_slug": "charles--the-book-of-enoch", "books_slugs": null, "has_project_translation": false, "steiner_loci": [] }, "parents": [ { "slug": "book-of-enoch", "name": "The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)", "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/" } ], "translation": { "title": null, "author": null, "source": null }, "chapters": [ { "num": 1, "slug": "64-chapter-lxxii", "title": "Chapter LXXII — The Sun's Twelve Gates", "words": 1280, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/64-chapter-lxxii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/64-chapter-lxxii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Uriel reveals the courses of the sun", "blurb": "Opens the Book of the Heavenly Luminaries. Uriel shows Enoch the law of all the luminaries, beginning with the sun: twelve gates in heaven through which it rises and sets, the lengthening and shortening of days through the year." }, { "num": 2, "slug": "65-chapter-lxxiii", "title": "Chapter LXXIII — The Moon's Phases", "words": 306, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/65-chapter-lxxiii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/65-chapter-lxxiii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The waxing and waning", "blurb": "The course of the moon: the law of her waxing and waning, the gates through which she rises and sets, how she becomes full and how she diminishes. The moon's months counted by fifty and twenty-nine days alternately." }, { "num": 3, "slug": "66-chapter-lxxiv", "title": "Chapter LXXIV — The Lunar Year Differs", "words": 534, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/66-chapter-lxxiv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/66-chapter-lxxiv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The moon falls behind the sun by ten days a year", "blurb": "Detailed calculation of how the lunar year of 354 days falls behind the solar year of 364 days. The intercalations needed to bring the moon back to its place. Eight years; twelve years; the great cycles." }, { "num": 4, "slug": "67-chapter-lxxv", "title": "Chapter LXXV — The Leaders of the Heads of Thousands", "words": 414, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/67-chapter-lxxv/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/67-chapter-lxxv.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The four intercalary days", "blurb": "The leaders of the thousands set over creation; the four intercalary days that mark the year's transitions and that humans often miscount; the divisions and seasons appointed in the heavens for sun, moon, and stars." }, { "num": 5, "slug": "68-chapter-lxxvi", "title": "Chapter LXXVI — The Twelve Winds", "words": 462, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/68-chapter-lxxvi/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/68-chapter-lxxvi.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Twelve gates open in the directions", "blurb": "The twelve gates of heaven open at the four quarters from which the winds proceed: three gates in each quarter (east, south, west, north). The winds bring blessing or harm depending on which gate they issue from." }, { "num": 6, "slug": "69-chapter-lxxvii", "title": "Chapter LXXVII — The Four Quarters and the Seven Mountains", "words": 272, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/69-chapter-lxxvii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/69-chapter-lxxvii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The geography of the cosmos", "blurb": "The names of the four quarters of the earth; the names of the seven great mountains, seven great rivers, seven great islands. The geographic schema of the cosmos as Enoch beholds it from the heights." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "70-chapter-lxxviii", "title": "Chapter LXXVIII — Names of the Sun and Moon", "words": 620, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/70-chapter-lxxviii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/70-chapter-lxxviii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The sun and moon equal, both shining alike", "blurb": "The names of the sun (Oryares, Tomases) and of the moon (Asonja, Ebla, Benase, Erae). The phases of the moon described in detail: the increasing of her light from one-seventh to fullness; the decreasing back to darkness." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "71-chapter-lxxix", "title": "Chapter LXXIX — Summary of the Astronomical Vision", "words": 193, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/71-chapter-lxxix/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/71-chapter-lxxix.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Uriel completes the law of the luminaries", "blurb": "Uriel concludes the astronomical revelation: this is the complete law of the luminaries; this is the complete vision of the laws of the universe. Enoch is to teach his son Methuselah." }, { "num": 9, "slug": "72-chapter-lxxx", "title": "Chapter LXXX — The Last Days' Disruption", "words": 310, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/72-chapter-lxxx/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/72-chapter-lxxx.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "In the days of the sinners, the courses of heaven shall change", "blurb": "In the days of the sinners the rains will be withheld; the moon will change her order; the stars will alter their appearance and not be seen in their proper seasons. Many heads of stars will transgress the commandment — apostasy in heaven as on earth." }, { "num": 10, "slug": "73-chapter-lxxxii", "title": "Chapter LXXXII — Enoch Charges Methuselah", "words": 886, "url": "/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/73-chapter-lxxxii/", "api": "/api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-astronomy/73-chapter-lxxxii.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The book of the courses of the luminaries given", "blurb": "Enoch addresses Methuselah: 'Preserve the words of thy father.' The leaders of the thousands and their offices; the four intercalary days; the seasons; the months. The whole book of the heavenly luminaries given to Methuselah for the generations." } ] }