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506: 38: 200:. However, the original biblical Behemoth never appeared as a fish. A reshaping of its nature must have occurred in Arab storytelling, some time in the pre-Islamic period. One proposed scenario is that a pair of beasts from the Bible were confused with each other: the behemoth mis-assigned to the fish, and the aquatic leviathan to the bull. 333:
These texts connect the cosmic fish and bull with phenomena of nature, namely the waxing and ebbing of tides, maintenance of the sea-level, and earthquakes. The account which only connects concerns the bull states that its breathing causes the waxing and ebbing of the tides. And since the fish and
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has explained that the traditional belief in the earthquake-causing bull is heavily concentrated in Arab regions (Saharan Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, Malay), whereas the motif of "World-Fish's movement causes earthquake" is found mostly in parts of Indochina, China, and throughout Japan.
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on the contrary agrees with Lane on these points. However, it disagrees somewhat with Lane's description regarding what lies below the fish: water, air, then a region of darkness, and with respect to the bull's appendages. It should be cautioned that Qazwini's cosmography is known to exist in a
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was one of Lane's sources, possibly the source of his main summary. His description of "Bahmût" (French translation) matches Lane's summary down to certain key details. However, there seems to be discrepancies in using "a heap of sand" (instead of "mustard") in the size analogy.
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There can occur certain discrepancies in Western translations, even when there are no textual differences in the Arabic. The creature, named Bahamut or Balhut in these sources, can be described as a fish or whale according to translation, since the original Arabic word
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At least this is the source ("Ed-Demeeree, on the authority of Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, quoted by El-Isḥáḳee, 1, 1.") which he cites at the apparent end of the description from one work; after which he begins "Another opinion is..." and moves to a different
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almost incited the whale Balhūt into causing a quake, but God distracted it by sending gnats to its eyes. Or alternatively, God had sent a sword-like fish that bedazzled and captivated the giant fish. This account is also found in al-Tha'labi's
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The passage in Qazwīnī dealing with these ideas is on p. 145 of Wüstenfeld's edition (where the names of the two animals are confused with each other and where also the Leviathan appears in a corrupt Arabic form form; see also tr. Ethé, p.
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the bull drink the water running off the earth into the sea, they counteract the tap-off causing sea-level to rise. But the beasts will eventually become engorged, when they will become agitated, or, it marks the advent of
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Although this is an instance of an Arabic tale that ascribes the origins of earthquakes to the cosmic whale/fish supporting the earth, more familiar beliefs in medieval Arab associate the earthquake with the bull, or with
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video game series, Bahamut is one of the most prominent summons – monsters that can be brought into battle to fight for their summoner. It appears in almost all installments of the series, with the exception of
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The source he notes at the end of the summary is al-Damiri ("Ed-Demeeree"), but this source does not completely match Lane's summary in details, at least when using Perron's translation of al-Damiri for
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on the whale having several names, as follows: "God created a large fish (nūn) which is a huge whale whose name (ism) is Lutīyā, by-name (kunyah) Balhūt, and nickname (laqab) Bahamūt".
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is ambiguous, and it had been endered "ruby" as Lane and Perron but also "green emerald" elsewhere; or "rock", or "green jacinth", "green corundum", or "green rock".
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In this conception of the world, the earth is shouldered by an angel, who stands on a slab of gemstone, which is supported by the cosmic beast (ox) sometimes called
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Yakut and al-Wardi both say there is a layer of sandhill between the bull and the fish. They also describe what lies under the fish somewhat differently.
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which are considered the oldest authorities containing similar cosmographical descriptions concerning the big fish and bull. In al-Tha'labi's text is an
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The wonders of creation: Based on the Wüstenfeld text edition, with the use and addition of the extensive notes and corrections by Prof. Dr. Fleischer
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Berlekamp, Persis (2011) Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam. Yale University Press. p. 197 and fig. 79, apud Ramaswamy
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The fish (Bahamut) carries on its back the giant bull (Kuyuta), and on the green hyacinth slab stands an earth-bearing angel.
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights: Now Intituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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Burton hinted this also, footnoting that this bull was the cosmic "Bull of the Earth", and gives appelation in
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This article is about the legendary fish of Arabia. For the Hebrew mythical creature with a similar name, see
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Although these differences are strictly based on the edition of Qazwini published in Germany (Wüstenfeld ed.)
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Although in some printed editions of Ibn al-Wardi, it occurs as "bahmūt" (equivalent to "Bahamūt").
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is the dragon god of justice, and is the first instance of the name being used for a dragon.
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There are a number of Islamic cosmographical treatises, of more or less similar content.
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On the "mustard seed" analogy and proximity of the bull's name: "mustard seed" (German "
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Or "El-Ḳazweenee" as Lane spells his name. Lane cites him in the foregoing passages on "
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Lane's primary Islamic source for his summary is unclear, as Lane merely refers to it
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is a variant name found in some cosmographies. In the earliest sources, the name is
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Except the night's tale adds that in the further depths lives a serpent called
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Arabian society in the Middle ages: studies from the Thousand and one nights
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the mythical white haoma tree being guarded by analogue mythical creatures
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Thaʻlabī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (2002). Brinner, William M. (trans.) (ed.).
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And not, as one might be led to believe, from Lane's translation of the
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Borges placed Bahamut as the identity of the unnamed giant fish which
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The bull having 4,000 eyes, nose, ears, mouths, tongue, and legs.
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and described as so immense that a human cannot bear its sight.
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Both cosmographies provide the story as words spoken by
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fish "Jinshin-Uwo", although the correct term would be
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Bahamut, according to Lane's abstract of a particular
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The Introductory Chapters of Yāqūt's Muʻjam Al-Buldān
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has drawn parallels between Bahamut and the mythical
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features a song called "Bahamut" as its third track.
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here is that of the Cairo edition of AH1324/AD1906.
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Index

Behemoth
Leviathan
Baphomet

/bəˈhɑːmt/
bə-HAH-moot
Arabic
Zakariya al-Qazwini
Kuyutha'(/Kuyuthan)/Kiyuban/Kibuthan
Leviathan
byname
nickname
al-Qazwini
Edward Lane
Yaqut al-Hamawi
Ibn al-Wardi
Behemoth
Hebrew
Ethé
Islamic work on cosmography
Kuyootà
ruby
Falak
circumlocutiously
Kujata (mythology) § Arabic sources
ياقوت
Al-Damiri
Wahb ibn Munabbih
The Wonders of Creation
Wahb ibn Munabbih

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