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Zaqiel
Chief of tens1 Enoch 6
Chief of the burning sky
Fourteenth chief of tens. 1 Enoch is obsessed with stars that leave their stations and are bound in a prison of fire (chs. 18, 21, 88). Zaqiel’s crime is to teach that prison as a curriculum: the fallen lights as colleagues.
Also named Ziqel, Zavebe, Sathariel’s cousin in some lists.
- Etymology
- Related to ziq, a firebrand, shooting star, or sky-spark.
- Cited
- 1 Enoch 6:7; 18:12–16; 21
Powers
- Reading a shooting star as a sentence
- Teaching the law of wandering lights
- Calling a fall as an omen of death
- Mapping the prison of the stars
What was taught
Zaqiel taught the lore of the burning sky: meteors, the stars that do not keep station, and how to read a fall as a message or a weapon.
The constellationsHost of Zaqiel
Whole decadSome stars already fell. We will teach you their paths.