Ayallach

Enoch’s Name Among the Watchers

Ayallach is one of the three names of Enoch: the name given him by the Watchers of heaven. At his birth Cavah blessed him: “This little son shall be called Ayallach by all the Watchers of Heaven because he is kin to those who are the guardians of the oaks of Pethach. And in his kinship with them he shall establish a city of holiness. And the way back to Eden shall become known by his hand. And it shall be according to the righteousness of God that he will be found all his days wearing the skins of the Ayal beast. And he shall walk with God before all of the Watchers of heaven, and for them there shall be none like him before and none like him after” (Enoch, Seth 2:54). Men called him Enoch, and God called him Sariel (Seth 2:49–56). See also Oaks of Pethach and Zion.

The Ayal and the Ayallah

The name comes from the guardian beasts of Eden’s gate: “the great Ayal, and the female of it is called the Ayallah, and it is a very large antelope, and it has two very strong and straight horns upon the head of it that stand up tall, and it is the guardian of Ayil, which is the name of the oaks of Pethach, and they are the two pillars of the western gate of Eden” (Seth 2:23; its footnote cites Strong’s #354). The Book of Moses notes: “A female oryx. The male is called an ayal” (Moses 2:121 n. 35). The Handbook: “The ancient name for the oryx is an ayal” (Handbook, p. 309).

Cavah’s Dream

Before Enoch was born, Cavah woke troubled: “In my dream I beheld a very large antelope which is called Ayal, and it is the guardian of the two oaks of the western gate to Eden… And the animal had become bogged down in the softness of a mire, and a flood of filthiness was about to descend upon him to destroy him. And in my dream I called out, Oh God, please help me to deliver him alive” (Seth 2:6). Her words were “the same words that the Lord said to me when He bid me come here to Annaway to deliver this child alive” (Seth 2:7).

The Slain Ayallah

Enoch’s father Jared, hunting in the hills of Anach, “shot an Ayallah in the power side of the neck… and he saw that the animal was heavy with young,” which the religion of the ancients forbade eating (Seth 2:25). Two men of Towah compelled Jared and his companions to eat its meat, and took the unborn young “to use it as the element of wickedness” (Seth 2:26–29). “Enoch being the last of the inheritance of Gabriel is the very one who God intends to lead the righteous back into Eden… and the unborn Ayal is the brother to the oaks of Pethach” (Seth 2:30). The Book of Moses tells it this way: “Asael instructed hunters to feed Jared, who is the father of Enoch, the flesh of the wound of an ayallah beast who was killed while pregnant, to be the element of wickedness to destroy the child in the womb, and one of the names of Enoch was Ayallach” (Moses 2:121). By Cavah’s “use of the element of righteousness the Lord had His way and Enoch was born alive” (Moses 2:122). When Jared later told of “the taking of the Ayallah,” Baraka “knew from whence came the forces that were against Enoch in his birth” (Seth 2:66). The two accounts agree, for Asael worked with Semihazah: “Asael worked with Semihazah from the beginning to prepare the way for him to have dominion over his own” (Seth 3:73). Semihazah spoke of “I and Asael my brother” (Bedal 10:93), and “Asael is tenth from Semihazah and the most influential of all the followers of Semihazah” (Handbook, p. 560). See also Asael and Semihazah.

The Skin of the Ayal

As a youth, troubled that he would fail the Lord in becoming a scribe, Enoch was given the skin Cavah foretold: “his father obtained for him the skin of the Ayal, and Enoch girded himself with it” (Seth 2:74).

“I Am Ayallach”

At Maceelah, the old camp of Gabriel, the Lord said to him: “Look and know my son Ayallach the kind of people it was who begat you” (Enoch, Bedal 9:6). Before dividing the waters, Enoch put his hand on his rock of witness and said: “I am Ayallach, and I am of Yawd in Maween… And I want you Ebedel to grant me the desires of my heart which will bless Anokeesed” (Bedal 10:147). See Ebedel.

The Carved Ayallah

Enoch’s messages were sealed under the sign of the Ayallah. The stone box sent to Iona had on its lid “a likeness of an ayallah head with the two horns standing up, and all knew they were the guardians of the oaks of Pethach” (Grandmothers 6:37); “when the people saw the carving on the lid of the box they remembered that one of the names of Enoch was Ayallach,” and inside was the Water Tablet (Grandmothers 6:39). Later a messenger brought Shayiree “an ark wrapped in leather and sealed with pitch, and upon the ark was carved a majestic ayallah”; it held “the Urim of Enoch, which he left when he entered to return to Eden” (Grandmothers 12:21). See Urim and Thummim.

The Ayallah and Shem

Rak, who walked with the Eerkodeshiy, “preferred leather clothing made of deer skins and of the great ayallah” (Melchizedek 8:196). When brigands of Towa, stirred by Asael, plotted against Shem on his journey north, “a great giant ayallah came out and stood before them, and they chased it in hot pursuit… and the ayallah gave its life to protect Shem, and thus the Eerkodeshiy protected Shem” (Melchizedek 9:187). Shem “never did know about the ayallah” (Melchizedek 9:196).

Horns of the Ayal

The katsar, the trump that calls the Eerkodeshiy: “the horns of the ayallah beast are that which are used, and they are viewed as the guardian of the oaks of Pethak at the western gateway into Eden” (Melchizedek 12:45). “Khatsars are made from the horns of an oryx” (Handbook, p. 309). The Yo-ani-ah Ceremony calls for “an ayal horn whistle and a rattle” (Handbook, p. 396; pictured p. 512).

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