It is remarkable that travellers of the second and possibly the first millennium before the present era, brought home these stories: The ruler over the sea animals is Leviathan. His fins radiate brilliant light, its smell is foul.(1) Leviathan spouts out water.(2) This description, one may guess, is of a whale. Ziz is the ruler over the birds; it is monstrous in size; its wings are so huge that unfurled they darken the Sun. “Great bird Ziz slaps his wings and utters his cry, so that the birds of prey, the eagles and the vultures, blench.(3)The span of the wings of the … Continue reading Giant Animals in Ancient Hebrew Texts