Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter VI — Descent of the Watchers
Semjâzâ and the two hundred bind themselves by oath on Mount Hermon
The angels of heaven, sons of God, see the daughters of men and lust. Semjâzâ leads two hundred who bind themselves by mutual oath on the summit of Mount Hermon to descend and take wives.
Source context
- Theme
- descent of the Watchers (Grigori) and their illicit union with the daughters of men
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Greek mythologyCross-tradition congruence appears in the Titan and Promethean myths, where divine or semi-divine beings transgress cosmic boundaries to interfere with human development, resulting in cosmic disorder and punishment.
- Mesopotamian mythologyCross-tradition congruence is visible in the Apkallu tradition, where seven antediluvian sages of ambiguous divine-human status transmit forbidden arts and knowledge, paralleling the Watchers' role as bearers of illicit celestial instruction.
- Vedic / Hindu cosmologyCross-tradition congruence appears in accounts of the Gandharvas and Apsaras, where celestial beings descend and enter into relations with the earthly realm, producing consequences that disrupt the cosmic order.
Chapter VI.
VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom (a Noah fragment).
CHAPTER VI.
1And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. 2. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.' 3. And Semjâzâ, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' 4. And they all answered
him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' 5. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 6. And they were in all two hundred; who descended ⌈in the days⌉ of **Jared** on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. 7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.
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