Mount Mahujah

Pronunciation: MOWNT mah-HOO-jah

Also Called

Harari and Ri’shoniy. It is “the mountain who has three names” — one name for the Holy Order of Elda, one for the Order of Melchizedek, and one for the Order of Zedeqetelebab (Melchizedek, Little Book 2:96 and note 140).

Named by the First Parents

Yaatsekawd climbed the mountain to the timber line and spoke to her, naming her Harari and telling her she would be the foremost mountain upon the earth to be inscribed first (Melchizedek 3:22). Cavah came dancing up her slopes and, because the mountain’s waters of Simca had led her to find her Yaatsekawd, named her Ri’shoniy (Melchizedek 3:33).

The Handbook gives the meanings: Harari, “someone who walks on mountains” (Strong’s #2043), the name Yaatsekawd gave the mountain he lived on; and Ri’shoniy, “first inscribed” (#7224, from #7223, “ancestor,” “of old time”). The mountain was later named Mahujah.

How It Became Mount Mahujah

When Yaatsekawd healed Jared of his lameness, he gave him a new name — Mahujah, “the one who runs with speed swiftly for God.” When the people heard of it, they began to call the mountain that overlooked the plain of Anach, where Mahujah hunted, Mount Mahujah (Enoch, Seth 2:109–110).

Overlooking the Gate of Eden

Over against the mountain called Mahujah stands the hill Pethach, where the two oaks stand at the gate of Eden (Enoch, Seth 1:7). The village of Nod, where the first parents dwelt after leaving Eden, lies on its slopes (Grandmothers 1:12), and Emoriy would walk the upper northwestern slopes of Mount Mahujah above Nod when she wished to learn the desires of Anokeesed (Grandmothers 2:15).

Enoch’s Forty Days

The Lord told Enoch to come up to Him upon the eastern waste places of Mount Mahujah, to be instructed concerning the sons of heaven (Enoch, Bedal 8:67). Enoch traveled many days toward the mountain, its top covered in mist, and went south around it where no man lived; on the east of Mahujah lay a high flat wilderness, barren of any life (Enoch, Bedal 10:36–38). There he divided the waters, reprimanded the Watchers, and named the sons of heaven (Enoch, Bedal 10).

Companion of Mount Qatar

When Mychar named Mount Qatar, he instructed it to follow the example of Mount Mahujah in protecting the people who came from Moladeth. The two mountains had watched each other since Olam, and now they became friends; each contributed a white stone as the element of righteousness, so that the feelings of Eden would be shared by them both (Grandmothers 2:43–44). From Mychar’s altar, Mount Mahujah could be seen in the misty distance eastward, and the two mountains have conferred together many times concerning Shabuwa (Grandmothers 2:47).

Feared by the Wicked

The wicked feared the regions around Mahujah, and in time that fear extended to Qatar as well (Grandmothers 2:54).

Signs Upon the Mountain

On the day Edni bore Amazyadad, eruptions were seen on Mount Mahujah and smoke filled the lofty places (Enoch, Bedal 11:72). At the division of the earth, the barren waste places of the east of Mahujah broke asunder, and the crevasse of Senaseol was no more (Enoch, Bedal 15:107).

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