Enoch (Apocryphal Material) is the cosmological frame of the Skronamon document, drawn from the Ethiopic Book 1 of Enoch: a Semitic original (Hebrew/Aramaic), translated into Greek, Ethiopic version of 350–600 AD. Paulus of Alexandria may have known it. James Bruce brought the first manuscript to Europe in 1773; it was published in Oxford in 1838.
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Contents
- God as punishing Lord of Spirits. The two hundred Watchers, fallen angels led by Semyaza, swore on Mount Hermon, desired human women and gave unwanted gifts: sex, writing, weapons (Gadreel) and enchantments. They are shut in the Earth; demons roam free and feed on the souls of the giants, the Watchers’ sons.
- Satan rules the satans; Gehenna is a desert of fire. The Messiah: a white bull, then oryx; Son of Man after the judgment. Enoch 3: Metatron, Viceroy of Heaven.
- Before the world tilted, the year had 360 days and no intercalary days.
Connections: Axum, whose Abyssinian Church held the manuscript; the Contest; Andgara; Graz’zt; the Angariense Pantheon.
The Head of Enoch
At the end of Antiterra appears the Head of Enoch, the head of the prophet “of the first city”, taken up by God in a chariot of fire (or was it Elijah?), who “knew too much” and cannot yet die; it sees from the niche between sleep and death and answers as an oracle. It is kept beside a plant of visions by a hermit in a tower that appears and disappears. It fell with the companions in Fiji and asked to go to the plane of shadows, where Helter carries it, insisting that “there is a light within the shadow”. It may be a manifestation of Erebus, the demilich posing as Enoch, who draws his power from devouring the over-deity Erick Null (triad Shar/Erebus/Nix). Dulis, Abyssinia’s dead-magic zone, is where Graz’zt “appeared”.