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== In traditional texts == The fallen watcher Sahariel, according to the [[1 Enoch|Book of Enoch]], was one of the leaders of angels who [[lust]]ed after the daughters of men. They descended to the summit of [[Mount Hermon]], in the days of [[Jared (ancestor of Noah)|Jared]], to acquire wives and lead men astray.<ref name="ReferenceA">[[wikisource:Book of Enoch/Chapter 06|Enoch 6]]</ref> Sariel specifically taught men about the course of the moon.<ref>[[wikisource:Book of Enoch/Chapter 08|Enoch 8]]</ref> [[Knibbs]]' translation of the names of the Book of Enoch says it was Sariel who taught humans the "course of the moon" (the [[Lunar calendar]]). In this same book, the [[archangel]] Sariel is one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits that sin in the spirit, and is one of the angels who look upon the bloodshed on Earth, along with [[Gabriel]], [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]], [[Raphael (archangel)|Raphael]] and [[Uriel]]. In the book of [[2 Enoch]] he is listed, with the name of Samuil or Sariel, as one of the angels that brought [[Enoch]] to [[heaven]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=2 Enoch [Longer recension, ms. J] (tr. F. Andersen), Chapter 33. |url=https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/slavonicenoch.html}}</ref> The book of [[War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness]], from the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], lists the name of ''Sariel'' (Χ©Χ¨ΧΧΧ, "''God is my Ruler"'') along with Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel as names to write upon the shields of soldiers in a tower during maneuvers (1[[Q source|Q]][[M source|M]] 9,15). It is used on the shields of the third ''Tower'' (1QM 9,16).<ref>[[War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness]] (War Rule), 1QM, Column 9, Lines 15-16</ref> The angel ''Suriyel'' is briefly mentioned in the [[Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan]] as bearing [[Adam and Eve]] from the top of a high mountain to the [[Cave of Treasures]].<ref>[[Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan]] 31:6</ref> :"β¦ bring what he had brought, and give it to Adam. And they did so, one by one. 6 And God commanded Suriyel and Salathiel to bear up Adam and Eve, and bring them down from the top of the high mountain, and β¦" - Bible. O. T. Apocryphal books. English First Book of Adam and Eve. In the [[Ladder of Jacob]] ''Sariel'' is dispatched by the Lord to [[Jacob]] to explain to him the meaning of the dream about the ladder. The book of [[Liber Juratus]] by [[Honorius of Thebes]] has a number of translations which lists ''Sariell'' as one of "The names of the angels of the eighth month, which is called [[Cheshvan|marquesnan heshvan]]", and ''Sariel'' as one of "The names of the angels of the tenth month, which is called [[Tevet]]". The month of [[Heshvan|Heshvan marquesnan]] would make Sariel's ruler Barfiell, or the month of [[Tevet]] would make the ruler [[Anael]].{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} [[The Lesser Key of Solomon]] lists the dukes Asteliel and Gediel as commanding Sariel by night. The book ''A Dictionary of Angels'' by [[Gustav Davidson]] and ''The Complete Book of Devils and Demons'' by Leonard Ashley list Sariel as a [[fallen angel]]. The [[Greek Magical Papyri]] represents him as a [[deity]] to be called upon in rites using the "Souriel" variation of his name.<ref>{{cite book |last=Betz |first=Hans |title=The Greek Magical Papyri In Translation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0hCj5u3HNQC |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |date=1996|isbn=9780226044477 }} Entry: "PGM III. 1-164".</ref> The [[University of Michigan]] has a section in its library collection devoted to Traditions of Magic in [[Late Antiquity]], [[Apotropaic magic|Protective Magic]], [[Babylon]]ian [[Incantation bowl|Demon Bowls]]. One [[clay]] bowl from [[Seleucia]]-on-Tigris dated to the 6th or 7th century A.D. lists Sariel twice: :"I wrote all of the curses upon a new bowl of clay and I sent back the curses of those who cursed Negray daughter of Denday to their masters until they release and bless in the name of Sariel the angel and Barakiel the angel and in the name of Sariel and Barakiel you release from the curses of those who curse Negray daughter of Denday as a man is freed from the house of bondage and from the house of weapons [[amen]] amen [[selah]]."<ref>{{cite web|title=PROTECTIVE MAGIC Babylonian Demon Bowls|url=https://www.lib.umich.edu/files/exhibits/pap-/magic/catalog.html|publisher=University of Michigan|access-date=26 December 2017}}</ref>
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