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commerce with the daughters of men, giving birth to a
race of giants who invent all sorts of artifices and noxious
knowledge. Then vice and evil increase to such a pitch
that the Almighty punishes them all with the Deluge. He
also relates his two journeys to the heavens and across
the earth, being guided by good angels, and the mysteries
and wonders he saw therein. In the second part, which is
a description of the Kingdom of Peace, “the Son of Man”
catches the kings in the midst of their voluptuous life and
precipitates them into hell [1].

However, this second book does not belong to one
author, and assuredly, it is much corrupted by Christian
hands. The third book (or part) contains some curious
and developed astronomical and physical notions. The
fourth part presents an apocalyptical view of the human
race from the beginning to the Islamic days, which the
author styles the “Messianic” times, in two symbolical
parables or rather allegories. A white bull comes out of
the earth; then a white heifer joins him they give birth to
two calves: one black, the other red; the black bull beats
and chases away the red one; then he meets a heifer
and they give birth to several calves of black colour,
until the mother cow leaves the black bull in the search
the red one; and , as she does not find him, bawls and
shrieks aloud, when a red bull appears, and they begin
to propagate their species. Of course, this transparent
parable symbolizes Adam Eve, Cain, Abel, Sheth, etc.,
down to Jacob (pbuh) whose offspring is represented by
a “flock of sheep” -as the Chosen People of Israel; but
the offspring of his brother Esau, i.e. the Edomites, is
described as a swarm of boars. In this second parable
the flock of sheep is frequently harassed, attacked,
dispersed, and butchered by the beasts and birds of prey
until we come to the so-called Messianic times, when
the flock of sheep is again attacked fiercely by ravens

[1] Enock Ivi. 4-8.