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Azazel

The Scapegoat

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Chief of the fallen Watchers in the Book of Enoch: the one who taught humankind the making of swords and shields, ornaments and paints, "and the world was changed." The whole earth, the book says, was corrupted through the works taught by Azazel: "to him ascribe all sin." He is bound hand and foot and cast into darkness until the great day.

Knowledge88
Corruption90
Power82
Darkness84
✦Signature powerThe Forbidden ArtsTaught the sword and the ornament in one breath; "to him ascribe all sin."
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Its universe

The mythic order Azazel belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Voices & connections

Figures bound to Azazel, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

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Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of Azazel.

The Forbidden FruitCursedThe Golden CalfCursedTablets of the LawSacredArk of the CovenantSacred

Read the story

Illustrated chapters where Azazel appears. Start reading in a click.

Illustrated storyThe WatchersFrom the Book of Enoch: two hundred angels set to watch over humankind descend instead on Mount Hermon, bind themselves by a mutual oath, take wives, teach the forbidden arts — metallurgy, sorcery, the reading of stars — and father the giants. The scribe Enoch is sent to write their judgment. The oldest fall-of-angels story ever written down.Begin reading →Illustrated storyThe Sleeper in ClayThe Gnostic Genesis: the Archons shape Adam as a trap for the light, the blind god breathes his stolen inheritance into the clay, and the copy stands up greater than its makers. The garden, the tree, the serpent who tells the truth — the oldest story in the world, told from the point of view of the spark.Begin reading →