Thiriel


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:
Thiriel appears also in The Four Zoas, where he becomes Palamabron. At the end of the Seventh Night, we read: