2 Enoch Chapter 12: Historical English Edition
The Slavonic Book · Historical English source edition
Chapter Text — Historical English Edition
1 And I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names (are) Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile’s head, their appearance (is) empurpled, like the rainbow; their size (is) nine hundred measures, their wings (are like) those of angels, each (has) twelve, and they attend and accompany the sun, bearing heat and dew, as it is ordered them from God.
2 Thus (the sun) revolves and goes, and rises under the heaven, and its course goes under the earth with the light of its rays incessantly.
About This Source Edition
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, in The Forgotten Books of Eden (1926), edited by Rutherford H. Platt Jr.; Wikisource transcription. This 68-chapter edition does not include the Melchizedek continuation found in some other editions.