Vretiel (Pravuil, Vrevoil) Archangel who records all of Godās deeds and who is āswifter in wisdom than the other archangels.ā The etymology of āVretielā is unknown and unexplained. As an archangel, he resembles Uriel, but as a scribe he is probably derived from Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and MAGIC and scribe to the god Osiris (and the equivalent of the Greek Hermes).
Vretiel is mentioned in 2 ENOCH. In 22:10ā11 God instructs him to bring out the books from Godāsstorehouses and a pen for āspeed-writingā and give them to Enoch. Vretiel hurries away to do Godās bidding and returns with the books and pen so that Enoch can record what God wishes him to. Vretiel instructs Enoch for 30 days and 30 nights without ceasing his talking. Enoch writes it down in 366 books.
Vretiel is sometimes identiļ¬ed as the āman clothed in linen, with a writing case at his sideā in Ezekiel 9:2.