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Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster, Leviathan, and according to later Jewish tradition both would become food for ...
While modern scholars and the Oxford English Dictionary [34] state that the origin of the name Baphomet was a probable Old French version of "Mahomet", [18] [29] alternative etymologies have also been proposed. Knights Templar seal representing the Gnostic figure Abraxas [35]
Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail; Devil Whale – Whale capable of swallowing ships
Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). The Ziz (Hebrew: זיז ) is a giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.
Leviathan the sea-monster, with Behemoth the land-monster and Ziz the air-monster. "And on that day were two monsters parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain."
Bahamut, according to Lane's abstract of a particular Islamic work on cosmography, is a giant fish acting as one of the layers that supports the earth. [13] It is so immense "[all] the seas of the world, placed in one of the fish's nostrils, would be like a mustard seed laid in the desert". [13]
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Behemoth, a beast mentioned in the Tanakh (Old Testament) Dābbat al-Arḍ in Islamic belief; Events of Revelation (Chapter 13) Lotan, the seven-headed sea serpent or dragon of Ugaritic myths; Mušḫuššu; The horse in Nordic mythology