77 HANOCH  - ENOCH 77

The four directions, the seven mountains, and the seven rivers

77:1   The first direction is called the Orient, because it is the very first.

77:2   The second is called the South, because YAHWEH the Most High will descend there, indeed because the Eternally Blessed will descend there.

77:3   The third direction is the Occident, its name means the diminished, because there all the luminaries of the sky wane and descend.

77:4   The fourth direction, whose name is the North, is divided into three parts: One of them is the dwelling of human beings; the second the seas of water, lakes, forests, rivers, darkness, and clouds; and the third part the garden of righteousness.

77:5   I saw seven high mountains which were higher than all the mountains of the earth; out of them proceeds frost; and days and years traverse them in due season.

77:6   I saw seven rivers upon the earth, larger than all the rivers; one of them emerges from the West and empties its water into the Great Sea.

77:7   Two others come from the Northeast to the sea and empty their water into the Erythraean Sea, in the East.

77:8   The four remaining ones come out of the side of the Northeast to their own respective seas -two of them to the Erythraean Sea and two of them to the Great Sea, pouring themselves therein; some say to the seventh desert.

77:9   I also saw big islands in the sea and the land -seventy two in the Erythraean Sea.