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No. The 'other' (not lesser) was variably known as Wisdom, the Angel of the Lord, the Spirit, and a few other names.

Metatron is an invention of Middle Age thought via the Talmud and Yahoel literature from the 5th Century CE (400 years after Jesus). Enoch didn't actually 'die' but was never worshiped.

The ONLY other being worshiped as 'divine' was Jesus.

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From Sefer Hekhalot:

(1) By reason of the love with which the Holy One, blessed be He, loved me more than all the children of heaven, He made me a garment of glory on which were fixed all kinds of lights, and He clad me in it.
(2)And He made me a robe of honour on which were fixed all kinds of beauty, splendour, brilliance and majesty.
(3) And he made me a royal crown in which were fixed forty-nine costly stones like unto the light of the globe of the sun.
(4) For its splendour went forth in the four quarters of the 'Araboth Raqia', and in (through) the seven heavens, and in the four quarters of the world. And he put it on my head.
(5) And He called me THE LESSER YHWH in the presence of all His heavenly household; as it is written (Ex. xxiii. 21): "For my name is in him".

Written by a Rabbi 2nd Century, before Babylonian Talmud. Many sources of him in this role before 5th Century.

Genesis 5:24 is what you are referencing to as him not dying. Book of Parables and Book of Daniel may reference Enoch as Lesser YHWH as well depending on interpretation on past work. Another Rabbi around 70 AD claimed similar things, but was declared Apostate by later Talmudic works and instead claimed he was an angel and not a second deity...Lesser YHWH went out of favor fairly quickly as a figure because of the religious authority and scare of worshipping two gods instead of one, so many references were omitted from the Talmud. Many Rabbinical sources him as being the highest angel and scribe as well as even mystical sects using the fact that Metatron is equivalent to Shaddai in Gematria (but not the same).
 

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VMR said:
From Sefer Hekhalot:

Written by a Rabbi 2nd Century

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch_(disambiguation)

Book of Enoch dates to the 2nd century BC or earlier, and survives in the Ge'ez language, with small portions also extant in Aramaic and Greek

Second Book of Enoch dates to the 1st century AD, and survives only in Old Church Slavonic

3 Enoch dates to the 5th century, and survives in Hebrew

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Enoch

3 Enoch is an Old Testament Apocryphal book. 3 Enoch purports to have been written in the 2nd century CE, but its origins can only be traced to the 5th century.

The main themes running through 3 Enoch are the ascension of Enoch into Heaven and his transformation into the angel Metatron.

3 Enoch was written AFTER Jesus had been dead for 400 years.​
 
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