2 Enoch

And 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 .

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.