page_title: Thiriel
hierarchical_section_title: Thiriel
caption_attribution_description: Plate 24 of The Book of Urizen by William Blake, printed 1818. Relief etching with monoprinted color. Collection The Library of Congress.
context_page_description: In the mythological writings of William Blake, Thiriel is the first son of Urizen. There is a possible confusion with Tiriel, the protagonist of the first prophetic book, of that name.
  In The Book of Urizen, Thiriel has an explicit identification of his place as Air in the Four Elements, matched to Urizen's four sons. His birth is described in Chapter VIII:
  Most Urizen sicken'd to see
  His eternal creations appear,
  Sons and daughters of sorrow, on mountains,
  Weeping, wailing. First Thiriel appear'd,
  Astonish'd at his own existence,
  Like a man from a cloud born
  Thiriel appears also in The Four Zoas, where he becomes Palamabron. At the end of the Seventh Night, we read:
  Urizen became Rintrah Thiriel became Palamabron
context_section_description: In the mythological writings of William Blake, Thiriel is the first son of Urizen. There is a possible confusion with Tiriel, the protagonist of the first prophetic book, of that name.
  In The Book of Urizen, Thiriel has an explicit identification of his place as Air in the Four Elements, matched to Urizen's four sons. His birth is described in Chapter VIII:
  Most Urizen sicken'd to see
  His eternal creations appear,
  Sons and daughters of sorrow, on mountains,
  Weeping, wailing. First Thiriel appear'd,
  Astonish'd at his own existence,
  Like a man from a cloud born
  Thiriel appears also in The Four Zoas, where he becomes Palamabron. At the end of the Seventh Night, we read:
  Urizen became Rintrah Thiriel became Palamabron
caption: The birth of the four sons of Urizen, depicted in The Book of Urizen. Copy G, collection the Library of Congress. Thiriel appears in the center with a halo about his head
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