The Beastiary – Ziz: Myth and Reality

The great biblical lord of air is the topic of this video. Come and discover this obscure mythical creature.

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[The_PokeSaurus]

I've known about Ziz, and like how you would describe a giant as a Behemoth I try to describe large flying things as a Ziz to pay some form of respect to this underrated mythical creature.

[HighShepherdLopes]

WOAH I just learned about Ziz today and was going to use it as a magical beast in my worldbuilding project, Thanks for the video, great as always.

[terrabranwen]

Woah woah.
" Wings as wide as the ocean is deep " ?
Fucking hell there isn't even a word to describe that.

[PlanetZoidstar]

Awesome video, and I especially enjoyed your attempts to Reify Ziz into a creature that could theoretically exist, with how space would allow for a creature of Ziz's proportions to exist without gravity being a factor inhibiting its sheer size.


Something I expected you to mention as a means Ziz may sustain itself could be by absorbing solar radiation, while no animal I know of is capable of doing this, plants do it as a means of sustenance through photosynthesis. Also the matter of procreation is fascinating since, far as we know, only 1 Ziz is said to exist, so perhaps Ziz is capable of asexual reproduction like Chickens are. Since it is possible for Chickens to produce fertile eggs without the need for a Rooster to fertilize them.


I'm glad you mentioned the Roc/Rukh of Persian folklore as well, I wonder if the Ziz was an inspiration for the Roc/Ruhk given both birds are defined by their great size and supernatural nature? I did not realise other mythical birds served as possible inspiration for Ziz but given how folklore is often built on external inspiration I shouldn't be surprised.

[damian]

Hey you’re back, where’ve you been man

[TRUTH]

Ziz and its egg are both located in Africa along with Typhon eating a massive fish.
Ziz's ear
27.775115, 5.7991
Ziz's egg/embryo
24.916583, 17.767767

[ucheopara]

The Ziz, Leviathan and Behemoth most likely exist in another plane of our multiverse, just as principalities exist in the midheavens: a plane closeby but inaccessible to most of the living mortals. Sciences like quantum mechanics nudge us to explore the multiverse, but this is a most dreadful prospect. We would not want to access most of the other planes of creation as mortals. However, both science and myth now seem to agree that there are multiple planes of existence in our multiverse.

[The_PokeSaurus]

Ziz has been shown in culture in Pokemon. The Pokemon Rayquaza, a giant flying dragon, is based on the idea of Ziz, a giant flying creature like how the Pokemon Groudon is the Behemoth and Kyogre is the Leviathan.

[MarkATorres]

Interesting when you were making the description and possible form of what Ziz could look like... I suddenly was thinking it would look like something of a hybrid mix of multiple fin manta ray with squid tentacles.

[praetorianrex]

Could you cover movie exclusive creatures such as the Xenomorph, please? Id love to hear your thoughts on it.

[nicholaslienandjaja]

Funny thing is, there is a Titan in Godzilla: King of the Monsters called Behemoth and another Titan that was only mentioned (but not seen) called Leviathan (who is also implied to be the Loch Ness Monster). Does that mean we will get a Titan called Ziz in future MonsterVerse movies?

[LONDON_MAN]

Just wow!!! This is what I've been looking for bro this segment right here is brilliant do you mind if I feature you and this piece of brilliant work in my documentary THE HOLY A-I BOOK PART 6 OR 7..with your blessings I would love to use your work sir please let me know you will be helping me crack the code to the realm we call home have a think about it you will be in history 🙏🏽❤🙏🏽London Man

[jamiechippett]

I can show you the spirit ziz quite plainly! You gotta get satellite map of Australia on your computer screen or mobile phone and then with your fingers turn satellite map of Australia upside down. Then look far right and just above Karratha western Australia and then zoom in up and down and focus clearly and look closely with your 👁️👁️ s and you'll see a gigantic set of eyes on head with a humungus bird beak snout with wings spreading across continent and its tail feathers ending up near Adelaide South Australia. A gigantic flying winged Phoenix Griffin thunderbird type of primordial being. Youll see it flying over a dragon and taking it out with a ball of fire. Corner SA, Victoria, NSW state border with satellite map of Australia upside down. Give it a crack and be totally blown away and amazed! Have fun good luck and enjoy.👍🤠🇦🇺 Check out all of the dark red ocher section in middle of nation.

[kirbymarchbarcena]

And I thought they referred to Rodan right before he got shaved.

[xbrandix]

That's incorrect about the ziz only being mentioned in Psalms in The Bible. Look it up.

[shazlossusshazam]

I thought it was Zyzz as in my motivational bodybuilder

[christinedin]

Jesus asked me to ride ZIZ to hook Tannin to feed to the people during a famine, i agreed days later, i am so scared of heights, i said i think i might need to be tied on, not sure when this is happening, but i was flying with his voice across a sea i think in heaven, because i went up spiral stairs in the clouds, 100 % true .

[bonezsmith]

Because you weren't looking in the right places the phoenix bird Egypt solar bird is all over mythology is a bird on the back of your dollar bill lol 😂 zues stayed with a bird on his side side in hellheim there's a huge bird down there you have to go to God of war where kratos is in hell I'm with his son you'll see it's all in plain sight bro