Azoyan and Azouchan

I am reading Daymon Smith's Words of Them Liberated concurrently with Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet.

In the introduction to the first Words book, Daymon incorrectly states that Tolkien used the name Azoyan for Numenor, adding his own interpretation of that name ("i.e., Zion") in parentheses. Every single word and name Tolkien created is exhaustively documented online by obsessive fans, so I feel very confident in stating that Azoyan is not among them. Daymon was presumably thinking of Yozayan but misremembered it. The misremembered name later occurs in the main text of the book (supposedly channeled from an Elf), where the context -- "the Holy Land of Gift, Azoyan" -- confirms that what he means is Yozayan. Here the name is not explicitly credited to Tolkien, though, so it can be considered a variant rather than an error.

Liberated, though, is where Azoyan really comes into its own. Forms of the name are used more than 20 times, and it is often clear that it now refers not specifically to Numenor but to something more like what Mormons mean by "Zion." The Mormon Zion par excellence is the City of Enoch.

Today, I read in Nibley this quotation from an apocryphal Enoch document:

And they all came together, saying: Come, let us greet Enoch, and they came to the place Azouchan.

Nibley has no comment on this place name, but I could hardly avoid noticing the similarity to Azoyan. Looking it up to get some more context, I found this in T. J. Milik's The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Cave 4:

The farewells and the Assumption of Enoch [in the Slavonic Book of Enoch] take place at Achouzan or Azouchan . . . . I think that the fifteenth-century reviser surmised rightly that this is a cryptic name of Jerusalem . . . or more exactly the hill of the Temple.

In other words, Azouchan means Zion, a standard definition of which is "Jerusalem, or more strictly, the Temple Mount." That a place name associated with Enoch was equated as far back as the 15th century with Zion is a very neat connection, and Nibley's failure to pounce on it is surprising. That it should be so similar to Daymon's misremembered Tolkien name, which he also equates with Zion -- and that I should happen to be reading Liberated and Enoch the Prophet at the same time -- is a striking coincidence.