Chapter LXXVII🇪🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳Enoch
Chapter LXXVII Summary
The first part of the world is called the east. The second part is the south, where the Most High will descend. The third part is the west, where the lights of the heaven go down. The fourth part is the north, divided into three sections. The first is for people to live. The second has seas, deep places, forests, rivers, darkness, and clouds. The third has a garden of righteousness. There are seven high mountains. They are higher than all other mountains. Frost comes from them. Days, seasons, and years pass with them. There are seven big rivers. One flows west into the Great Sea. Two flow north into the Erythraean Sea. The other four flow north, two into the Erythraean Sea and two into the Great Sea. There are seven big islands. Two are on the mainland. Five are in the Great Sea. The moon has months with twenty-nine days and sometimes twenty-eight. Uriel shows how the sun transfers light to the moon. For fourteen days, the moon grows in light. When full, it shines all night. Then it wanes until it is empty of light. The moon makes three months of thirty days and three months of twenty-nine days. It wanes in the first part of time. It appears for three months of thirty days and three months of twenty-nine days. At night, it looks like a man for twenty days. By day, it looks like the heaven.
The first section is called the east because it is the first. The second section is called the south because the Most High will come down there in a special way.
The western part is called the diminished, because that's where all the lights in the sky fade and set.
The fourth section, called the north, is split into three parts: the first part is where people live. The second part has seas, deep waters, forests, rivers, darkness, and clouds. The third part holds the garden of righteousness.
I saw seven tall mountains, taller than any mountains on Earth. From these mountains, frost comes out, and they mark the passing of days, seasons, and years.
I saw seven big rivers on the earth, bigger than all other rivers. One of them flows from the west and empties into the Great Sea.
These two rivers flow from the north to the sea and empty their waters into the Red Sea in the east.
The other four rivers flow out from the north side to their own sea. Two of them go to the Red Sea, and two go to the Mediterranean Sea, emptying into them. Some say they flow into the desert instead.
I saw seven large islands, some in the sea and some on the mainland: two on the mainland and five in the great sea.
In some months, there are twenty-nine days, and once there are twenty-eight.
Uriel then showed me another principle: how light is passed from the sun to the moon, and which side of the moon receives it.
During the whole time the moon is getting brighter, it collects light for itself when it is directly opposite the sun. This takes fourteen days, and by then, its light is fully bright in the sky. When it is completely illuminated, its light is at its fullest in the sky.
On the first day, she is called the new moon because that's when the light begins to shine on her.
When the sun sets in the west, the moon becomes full. It rises at night from the east and shines all night until the sun rises opposite it, and the moon is seen facing the sun.
The side of the moon where the light first appears is also where it gradually fades until all the light disappears, marking the end of the month. At this point, the moon's surface is completely dark, with no light remaining.
Here is the rewritten verse in simple modern English: In three months, each with thirty days, and in another three months, each with twenty-nine days, she completes her waning in the first part of the time and in the first gateway, totaling one hundred and seventy-seven days.
During the time she is visible, she shines for three months with each month having thirty days, and for another three months with each month having twenty-nine days.
At night, she looks like a man for twenty days at a time, and during the day, she appears like the sky. There is nothing else in her except her light.