The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 12
Phoenixes and Chalkydri are flying elements of the sun with lion-formed feet and tails plus a crocodile head.
1nd I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names (are) Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile's head, their appearance (is) empurpled, like the rainbow; their size (is) nine hundred measures, their wings (are like) those of angels, each (has) twelve, and they attend and accompany the sun, bearing heat and dew, as it is ordered them from God.
2 Thus (the sun) revolves and goes, and rises under the heaven, and its course goes under the earth with the light of its rays incessantly.
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Phoenixes and Chalkydri are flying elements of the sun with lion-formed feet and tails plus a crocodile head.
Their empurpled appearance resembles the rainbow and their size equals nine hundred measures.
Each of these marvellous beings possesses twelve wings like those of angels.
They attend and accompany the sun, bearing heat and dew as ordered them from God.
The sun revolves and rises under the heaven, its course going under the earth with incessant rays.
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In brief
Enoch sees the Phoenixes and Chalkydri, wondrous sun attendants with lion feet and tails, crocodile heads, rainbow-purple forms nine hundred measures large, and twelve angel wings each. They bear heat and dew as the sun rises under heaven and courses under the earth with unceasing rays.