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Enoch divide the day into eighteen parts, and proceeds to lay 

 dow n for the summer solstice : 



" On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the 

 day becomes double the night, and the day becomes twelve parts, 

 and the night is shortened and becomes six parts." 



This holds good for the Magian traditional latitude, a latitude 

 so far north that the Iranians themselves had no experience of 

 it, and kept only its tradition — their own tradition derived 

 neither from Semite nor Hamite. How then did this Jew 

 know of it? It is not the latitude of Jerusalem, why should 

 he choose it ? He had no experience of it himself, it lies 

 hundreds of miles to his north, and if he had, he was not 

 sufficiently a practical astronomer to make even this simple 

 observation for himself. Nor was he mathematician enough* 

 to work out the conditions, for he proceeds to elaborate on the 

 proportion stated of summer day to summer night, and to 

 elaborate wrongly by laying down equal monthly increments of 

 day or night between the equinoxes and the solstices. Whence 

 then did he get it ? We are forced to conclude that he learned 

 of this "traditional latitude" in Parthia and incorporated it 

 (with erroneous additions of his own) in his Book of Enoch. 



As we have seen, the Bundahis was compiled in the reign of 

 King Valkash, the Marian convert, and owed its form to the 

 setting of Magian religious tradition (" revelation " is the term 

 used) in a Greek astronomical framework. I do not say that 

 Pseudo- Enoch took his information straight from the Bundahis, 

 though that was already in existence when he wrote, but I do 

 affirm that he took it from some astrological work based on the 

 Bundahis and by the same school of thought that produced it, 

 for Pseudo-Enoch was not (mathematically) clever enough to 

 work it out for himself. His Chapter LXXXII is a vague 

 indication of the method in which he draws up a horoscope, 

 based on a 364-day year and an 18-hour day.t He says : — 



" Blessed are all the righteous .... who walk in the way of 

 righteousness, and sin not as the sinners, in the reckoning of all their 



* Pseudo-Enoch was not capable of working out this mathematical 

 problem for himself, but I do not wish that the inference should be drawn 

 that Solomon, or Daniel, or Messahalah were incapable of doing so, if 

 they had seen tit. 



t No more than Slav. En. does Eth. En. give any actual methods by 

 which he draws up a horoscope. The client has to come to the astrologer 

 with a fee for the drawing up of the horoscope and for the interpretation 

 thereof. The fees are not obscurely hinted at in Eth. En., c. 12. 



