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>Tell me more about this Azazel.

>started out as the Hebrew version of the god Motu or Horanu
>in the Babylonian exile became the lead watcher who led the others in fucking up the universe, fucking mortal women, teaching mankind warfare, and siring monsters
>bound and weakened somewhere either in earth or the heavens before the flood
>hell might be his mouth and might still have control of mankind's evil inclination
>later on, gets associated as a servant of Samael/Leviathan/Belial in early christian/qumran/early Jewish literature
>Leviathan is a cosmic horror
>Belial and Samael are Ahriman to Yahweh's Zurvan
>dropped entirely by Christianity because the early Jewish-Christians preferred the Enoch watcher stuff to Lucifer and the Proto-Orthodox Church needed to distance themselves from it for multiple reasons
>Jews toned it down for a bit but got right back into it in the 11th century

I'd recommend Andrei Orlov he writes a ton of shit about Enoch, Azazel, Yahoel, Mastema and pals and a good amount of it is free