Giants/A named giant
Son of Shemihazah
Hahyah
Brother of Ohyah. He dreams the orchard of two hundred trees, the gardeners, the fire and the water. He is the one who first says: we must ask Enoch.
Also named Hahya, Ahyah, ʾAhyah.
- Office
- The garden dreamer
- Father
- Shemihazah
- Tradition
- Qumran and Manichaean
- Cited
- 4Q530 ii; 6Q8
Hahyah’s night is the book’s central image. Gardeners water. Great shoots come from the stumps. He watches until tongues of fire come down and water covers the dirt and the garden burns. The two hundred are the Watchers; the shoots are their sons. A related scrap from Cave 6 keeps three roots in the garden — the remnant the flood will spare.
He reports the dream in the assembly of his comrades the Nephilin. They cannot interpret it. Interpretation is a scribal office, and the only remaining competent scribe is Enoch, who lives where they cannot walk. Hahyah’s gift is not reading. It is seeing, and knowing that seeing is not enough.
If Ohyah is the will of the camp, Hahyah is its conscience: the one who looks at an orchard and understands, without yet having the words, that they are the trees.