Giants/A named giant
Son of Baraqel
Mahaway
The only giant who can still travel far enough. The assembly sends him to Enoch at the ends of the earth, because he has heard the scribe’s voice before.
Also named Mahway, Mahawai, Māhāway.
- Office
- The messenger
- Father
- Baraqel / Baraqiel
- Tradition
- Qumran and Manichaean
- Cited
- 4Q530 ii–iii; 6Q8
Mahaway is not a chief’s firstborn in the way Ohyah is. His father is Baraqel, ninth of the twenty, teacher of astrology — lightning as a stolen verdict. Distance and omen are the household gifts. The son inherits the distance. He flies like a whirlwind across waste and mountain, and a warning follows him: do not go too far.
He is also the likely dreamer of the washed tablet, or at least its first reporter: a writing immersed, three names remaining. Whether the tablet is his own night or a vision he carries, he is the one who moves information through the book — from father, to assembly, to Enoch, and back again with a letter.
Ohyah questions him about what he heard in Baraqel’s presence. The giants’ intelligence is ancestral, and the ancestors are already bound. Mahaway is what is left of that network: a courier between a doomed camp and a scribe who will not intercede this time.