Apocryphal books (Old Testament); Enoch (Biblical figure); Ethiopic book of Enoch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LXXXVI. 1. And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the
heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and ate
and pastured amongst those oxen. 2. And after that I saw the large and
the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures
and their cattle, and began to live with each other. 3. And again I saw
in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many
stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star,
and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them
[amongst them]. 4. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let
out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the
oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels and asses.
5. And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began
to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns. 6.
And they began moreover to devour those oxen; and behold all the
children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee
from them.
LXXXVII. _The Advent of the Seven Archangels._
LXXXVII. 1. And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to
devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. 2. And I raised
mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there
came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went
forth from that place and three with them. 3. And those three that had
last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the
generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed
me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. 4.
And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that
befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen,
and all of them.’
LXXXVIII. _The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the Archangels._
LXXXVIII. 1. And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and
he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it
hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and
deep, and horrible and dark. 2. And one of them drew a sword, and gave
it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite
each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them. 3. And as I was
beholding in the vision, lo, one of the four who had come forth stoned
(them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose
privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and
foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
LXXXIX. 1-9. _The Deluge and the Deliverance of Noah._
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