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The Book of Enoch · 31 of 109
1.And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were [groves of] trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum.
2.And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain [to the east of the ends of the earth], [whereon were aloe trees], and all the trees were full of stacte, being like almond-trees.
3.And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
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Why does Enoch describe mountains with trees producing nectar like sarara and stacte?
Enoch is mapping a sacred geography: the mountains hold trees that yield rare resins—“sarara,” “galbanum,” and “stacte”—so their scent marks those places as holy and extraordinary. The chapter treats these botanical treasures as signs of paradise-like abundance, where burning them gives a fragrance “sweeter than any fragrant odour,” linking smell to sanctity.
This detail continues Enoch’s visionary inventory of distant, heavenly locales, like the angelic gardens in Revelation and the fragrant trees in Genesis’ Eden imagery. The text uses concrete aromas to make the otherworldly immediate, turning metaphysical value into a tangible, sensory emblem of divine presence.
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