Enochian

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Enochian

Enochian is a name often applied to an occult or angelic language recorded in the private journals of Dr John Dee and his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th century. The men claimed that it was revealed to them by angels, while some contemporary scholars of magic consider it a constructed language.

– Pad of Definitions (2.18 Hollywood Babylon), Official Website

The term is derived from the Biblical Patriarch, Enoch or Henoch. Enoch was, according to Hebrew folklore, the most righteous man of his time. Two angels appeared to him one day, claiming to have fathered children with mortal women. They asked Enoch to speak to God on their behalf. In order to speak to God, the angels took Enoch up into Heaven, where he took down secrets of the universe and how angels used their magic and transcendent powers. God, unconvinced of the renegade angels' sincerity and remorse, sent a flood to destroy the angel halfbreeds and banished the angels from Heaven. Enoch was returned to earth with his new found knowledge of magic and the summoning of angels and spirits. At the age of 365, Enoch was visited by God and transfigured into God's most powerful and fiery angel, the High Seraph Metatron, and taken into Heaven to serve as God's chief angel.

Enochian in Supernatural verse

Enochian is a term that is used to describe a number of things concerning angels, such as 'Enochian sigils' and 'Enochian rituals'. Apparently angels speak Enochian among themselve in Heaven. Ash claims that he can use string theory to hear them.

Angels can also communicate in Enochian with angels in Heaven while they are on Earth. Castiel uses Enochian to call on Raphael in combination with Raphael's vessel, and Zachariah uses Enochian to summon Michael to Earth.

Enochian is also used to work spells. Lucifer's cage can be re-opened via an Enochian enchantment in combination with the Horsemen's Rings. Castiel uses a ritual that is likely Enochian to locate Anna. And Enochian is used on at least one occasion for a devil's trap.

Featured Episode

The funeral home covered in sigils.
  • 5.01 Sympathy For The Devil - Castiel burns Enochian Sigils into Sam and Dean's ribs. He tells them they will hide the boys from all angels - including Castiel and Lucifer.
X-ray of Dean's ribs inscribed with sigils from 5.02 Good God Y'All
Crowley's house covered in sigils.
  • 5.13 The Song Remains The Same - The Winchesters still have the Enochian symbols burned into their ribs, which prevent Anna from locating them, so she must approach Dean in a dream. Castiel performs a ritual to locate Anna which involves a chant that is likely Enochian.
  • 5.16 Dark Side Of The Moon - In Heaven Ash has rigged a PC to monitor angels as they speak Enochian by using string theory. Ash also says he understands Enochian.
  • 5.17 99 Problems - As a ruse to fool the townspeople, the Whore Of Babylon, disguised as Leah, enlists demons to make controlled attacks on Blue Earth, Minnesota. The Whore teaches the townspeople an Enochian 'exorcism', but Castiel reveals that it actually means "you breed with the mouth of a goat".
  • 5.18 Point Of No Return - Castiel burns Enochian runes into Adam Milligan's ribs to hide him from the angels who resurrected him. Zachariah uses an Enochian incantation, "Zodireda noco abramg nazpsad", to summon Michael to Earth.
  • 5.22 Swan Song - Dean uses an Enochian incantation revealed to him by Death to open Lucifer's Cage. Dean says "Bvtmon Tabges Babalon" (which roughly translates "Open the mouth of the cave of the evil/wicked one") and the cage opens, but Lucifer shuts it by chanting a counter spell. Later in the episode, Sam uses the same incantation.

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