This Enoch is a Zoma (artificial demon), but its namesake is Enoch, who, according to the Book of Genesis, was a man who is described as having walked with God. When he was 365 years old, he is stated to have been taken by God, which is traditionally interpreted as being taken into heaven alive.
More extensive details on Enoch's life are given in three religious texts referred to as 1 Enoch (also called simply the Book Enoch), 2 Enoch (also called Slavonic Enoch), and 3 Enoch (also called Sefer Hekhalot, meaning "book of palaces"). According to 3 Enoch, when God took Enoch, Enoch became the angel Metatron. These books are not regarded as canonical by the great majority of Christian and Jewish denominations in the present day, though 1 Enoch is accepted as canon by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Islamic tradition identifies Enoch with the prophet Idris mentioned in the Qur'an.