1 Enoch 77

And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first: and the second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite a special sense will He who is blessed for ever descend.

The names of the sun are these: one Aryares, the other Tomas.

They call the first wind the eastern, because it is the first, and they call the second the 194 THE BOOK OF ENOCH. southern because the Most High descends there, and especially does the Blessed One in eternity descend there.

And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the luminaries of the heaven wane and go down.

The moon has four names. The first is Asonya; the second, Ebla; the third, Benase; and the fourth, Erae.

And the name of the west wind is the diminisliing, because there the luminaries of tlie heavens diminish and go down.

And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part contains the garden of righteousness.

These are the two great luminaries, whose orbs are as the orbs of heaven; and the dimensions of both are equal.

And the fourth wind, called the north, is divided into three parts, one of them is/or the dwelling of men, the second for the seas of water and for the valleys and for the woods and for the streams and for the darkness and for the fog ; and the third part with the garden of justice. 4. 1 saw seven high mountains, which were higher than all the mountains which are on the earth, and from them there comes hoar-frost ; and days and times and years cease and depart.

I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years pass away.

In the orb of the sun *there is* a seventh portion of light, which is added to it from the moon. By measure it is put in, until a seventh portion of *the light of* the sun is departed. They set, enter into the western gate, circuit by the north, and through the eastern gate go forth over the face of heaven.

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I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea.

When the moon rises, it appears in heaven; and the half of a seventh portion of light is all *which is* in it.

I saw seven rivers on the earth, larger than all the rivers ; one of them coming from the west empties its water into the great sea.

And these two come from the north to the sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the east.

In fourteen *days* the whole of its light is completed.

And two of them come from the north to the sea, and empty their water into the Erythraean sea in the east.

And the remaining four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, 〈two of them〉 to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there [and some say: into the desert].

*By* three quintuples light is put into it, until *in* fifteen *days* its light is completed, according to the signs of the year; it has three quintuples.

But the other four come from the side of the north over to the sea, two of them to the Erythraean sea, and two empty in the great sea ; according to others, in the desert.

Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the mainland and five in the Great Sea.

The moon has the half of a seventh portion.

I saw seven great islands in the sea and on the land : two on the land and five in the great sea.

(not present in Charles 1917)

During its diminution on the first day its light decreases a fourteenth part; on the second day it decreases a thirteenth part; on the third day a twelfth part; on the fourth day an eleventh part; on the fifth day a tenth part; on the sixth day a ninth part; on the seventh day it decreases an eighth part; on the eighth day it decreases a seventh part; on the ninth day it decreases a sixth part; on the tenth day it decreases a fifth part; on the eleventh day it decreases a fourth part; on the twelfth day it decreases a third part; on the thirteenth day it decreases a second part; on the fourteenth day it decreases a half of its seventh part; and on the fifteenth day the whole remainder of its light is consumed.

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On stated months the moon has twenty-nine days.

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It also has a period of twenty-eight days.

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Uriel likewise showed me another regulation, when light is poured into the moon, how it is poured into it from the sun.

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All the time that the moon is in progress with its light, it is poured *into it* in the presence of the sun, until *its* light is in fourteen days completed in heaven.

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And when it is wholly extinguished, its light is consumed in heaven; and on the first day it is called the new moon, for on that day light is received into it.

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It becomes precisely completed on the day that the sun descends into the west, while the moon ascends at night from the east.

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The moon then shines all the night, until the sun rises before it; when the moon disappears in turn before the sun.

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Where light comes to the moon, there again it decreases, until all its light is extinguished, and the days of the moon pass away.

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Then its orb remains solitary without light.

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During three months it effects in thirty days *each month* its period; and during three *more* months it effects it in twenty-nine days each. *These are the times* in which it effects its decrease in its first period, and in the first gate, *namely*, in one hundred and seventy-seven days.

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And at the time of its going forth during three months it appears thirty days each, and during three *more* months it appears twenty-nine days each.

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In the night it appears for each twenty *days* as *the face of* a man, and in the day as heaven; for it is nothing else except its light.

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