The eastern sources are not strong contenders for direct sources as they lack specifics in similarity. There are, , present visual likenesses from which an author could draw to color a story. Conversely, the western sources show an inversion trait. Portier-Young and Roark argue the author of the Watcher narrative wrote against Prometheus Bound, pitting the loving God of Israel against capricious Zeus. The Tradition of Seven Lean Years also carries inversions: a flood from which God delivers Noah is a drought that Khnum makes Djoser endure. In the bull metaphor of 1 Enoch, the bull changes into a man—a created being. By comparison, the metaphorical bull in the Egyptian text is a partial creator; but why present such inversions in apocalyptic
