entities: ENT_ISR_RAGUEL

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_ISR_RAGUEL Raguel   Israelite/Second Temple archangel of vengeance and divine justice Angelic Being divine vengeance; justice; luminaries; cosmic order; punishment of transgression       A           Raguel ("Friend of God" or "Shepherd of God") is one of the seven holy angels who stand before God in 1 Enoch 20:4: "Raguel, one of the holy angels, who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries." His domain is distinctive — he oversees the execution of divine vengeance specifically against the luminaries (sun, moon, stars) when they transgress their ordained courses, as described in the Astronomical Book of 1 Enoch (chs. 72-82). This gives him a unique cosmological function among the seven: while Michael protects the righteous and Raphael heals, Raguel enforces the moral-astronomical order of the cosmos itself. In the Book of Tobit (2:15 in the Sinaiticus text, though this is textually variant), a figure related to Raguel appears in the narrative context alongside Raphael, suggesting his name was current in Second Temple angelological speculation broadly. Raguel also appears in 1 Enoch 23:4 as a heavenly judge figure. In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity (where 1 Enoch is canonical), Raguel is venerated as one of the seven archangels alongside Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Sariel, and Remiel. He completes the seven-archangel council of 1 Enoch 20 alongside the four archangels already attested in the canonical Hebrew Bible and the Deuterocanon (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel) and the two other 1 Enoch-specific figures (Remiel, Sariel). Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination (2016) pp. 79-82. angel

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