Helel

Helel - In Canaanitish mythology, a fallen angel, son of Sahar or Sharer, a winged deity.  Helel sought to usurp the throne of the chief god and, as punishment, was cast down into the abyss. Cf. the Lucifer legend.  The 1st star to fall from Heaven (Enoch I, 86:1) was Satan-Helel.  This is an interpretation offered by Morgenstern, "The Mythological Background of Psalm 82" (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Annual XIV, pp. 29-126).  However, in his Fallen Angels, Bamberger argues: "The more natural explanation is that the 1st star [that fell] was Azazel."  Helel was head or leader of the nephilim (q.v.). Generally speaking, angels can have no offspring, since they are pure spirits; but when angels sin, when they "put on the corruptibility of the flesh" and cohabit with mortal women, they are capable of producing progeny.  A case in point is the incident in Genesis 6.  In the cabala and rabbinic lore there are numerous instances of such heteroclitish productivity. [Rf. Graves and Patai, Hebrew Myths.]  (a)

(a) "The Dictionary of Angels" by Gustav Davidson, © 1967