day and the night.
75:4 Likewise Uriel showed me twelve wide openings in the sky, along the course of
the chariots of the sun, from which the rays of the sun break out and from which heat is
diffused upon the earth, when they are opened during the designated seasons.
75:5 Their openings affect the winds and the spirit of the dew,
75:6 that is when the twelve wide openings are opened in the sky, in the extreme ends
of the earth, through which also the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the other heavenly
objects come out in the west.
75:7 There are many open windows to the left and the right, but one window produces
the heat at its designated time in the manner of those openings through which the stars
rise in accordance with their orders and set according to their numbers.
75:8 I also saw chariots in heaven running in the universe above those opening so in
which the stars that do not set revolve.
75:9 One circuit is larger than the rest of them all, and it circles the entire cosmos at
the extreme ends of the earth.
76 HANOCH - ENOCH 76
The twelve winds and their gates
76:1 And I saw the twelve wide openings in all the directions through which the winds
come out and blow over the earth.
76:2 Three of them are open in the forefront of the sky, three in the west, three in the
right of the sky, and three on the left;
76:3 in other words the first three are those on the morning side followed by three in
the direction of the north; the last three are those on the left, in the direction of the
south followed by three in the west.
76:4 Through four of the openings blow out winds of blessing and through eight of
them blow out winds of pestilence - when they are sent in order to destroy the whole
earth, the water upon her, all those who dwell upon her, and all those which exist in the
waters and the dry land.
76:5 The first group of winds goes out from those openings called the easterly. Out of
the first gate, which is in the direction of the east and inclines toward the south,
proceed extirpation, drought, pestilence, and destruction.
76:6 Out of the second gate located directly in the center, proceed rain, and
fruitfulness together with dew. Out of the third gate, which is in the direction of the
northeast, proceed both cold and drought.
76:7 After these winds, there go out the southerly ones through three gates. Among
these, out of the first gate, which inclines in the direction of the east, precede the winds
of heat.
76:8 Out of the central gate, which is next to it, proceeds beautiful fragrance; dew,
rain, shalom, and life.
76:9 And out of the third gate, in the direction of the west, proceed dew, rain, young
locusts, and desolation.
76:10 After these, there goes the group of the northerly winds whose name is the Sea.
There proceed from the seventh gate, which is in the direction of the east, toward the
south; dew, rain, young locusts, and desolation.
76:11 Out of the central gate proceed life, rain, and dew directly; and out of the third
gate, which is in the direction of the west, which inclines toward the northeast, proceed