The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 15
The sun's elements, called Phoenixes and Chalkydri, break into song as every bird flutters its wings rejoicing.
1hen the elements of the sun, called Phoenixes and Chalkydri break into song, therefore every bird flutters with its wings, rejoicing at the giver of light, and they broke into song at the command of the Lord.
2 The giver of light comes to give brightness to the whole world, and the morning guard takes shape, which is the rays of the sun, and the sun of the earth goes out, and receives its brightness to light up the whole face of the earth, and they showed me this calculation of the sun's going.
3 And the gates which it enters, these are the great gates of the calculation of the hours of the year; for this reason the sun is a great creation, whose circuit (lasts) twenty-eight years, and begins again from the beginning.
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The sun's elements, called Phoenixes and Chalkydri, break into song as every bird flutters its wings rejoicing.
The morning guard takes shape as the rays of the sun when the giver of light brightens the whole world.
The gates the sun enters are the great gates of the calculation of the hours of the year.
The sun is a great creation whose circuit lasts twenty-eight years and then begins again from the beginning.
The sun of the earth goes out and receives its brightness to light up the whole face of the earth.
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In brief
The elements of the sun, called Phoenixes and Chalkydri, break into song so that every bird flutters its wings rejoicing at the giver of light. The sun goes forth through the great gates of the year's hourly calculations, receiving brightness to light the whole earth in a twenty-eight-year circuit that begins again from the start.