The Ziz Bird – an old pal of the Behemoth and Leviathan….the biggest foul to grace
the earth.
The Ziz is a part of Jewish Mythology….
But, what if it was real?
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking - What if the Ziz bird was real?
Before we get into this video, why don’t you guys let me know what your favourite bird
is in the comments section down below.
Mine is an owl.
I love a good owl.
Okay, the Ziz Bird What you need to know about Ziz is that honey is huge.
Like the Behemoth was the largest mythological land animal, and the Leviathan the largest
sea animal, the Ziz is the biggest bird, but just how big are we talking here?
The current biggest living bird in the world is the Ostrich, which stand much taller than
me at 6ftm and weigh around 150lbs.
The ostrich, of course, can’t fly.
The largest living bird that can fly is the Royal Albatross, which isn’t as tall as
the ostrich but does have a wing span of 11.4 feet, which is pretty insane.
The largest winged creatures we know to have existed in reality were the pterosaurs; a
group of dinosaurs that weighed 570lbs and had a wing span of an estimated 50 – 70
feet.
Big….
But nowhere near as big as the mythical Ziz.
Our mate Ziz is said t have Feet that touch the bottom of deepest ocean and a head that
scrapes the top of the sky.
This means that the Ziz would be taller than all of the buildings in existence.
In fact, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the earth is at its shortest distance,
62 miles high….which means the Ziz is mamouth.
It would appear like a wall of feathers to us.
While, in Jewish Mythology, the Ziz’s Wings protect the earth against the storms of the
south, they are also said to have the ability to block out the sun, which I don’t think
is ideal for anyone.
At the stretch of an arm, the bird could turn day to night, which would very much confuse
humans and animals alike.
Let’s talk about eggs.
Some of you might like eating them, but can you imagine being swept away and drowning
in a gloopy sea of egg white or worse, yolk!
In the story of the Ziz, one time it laid an egg which fell to the earth and broke,
causing a sticky flood that obliterated 60 cities and caused an earthquake that destroyed
a small forest of three hundred trees.
With all this yolky swamp and sun blocking, honestly I am starting to think the Ziz is
a bit of a pest and I am betting a lot of other people wouldn’t be so down with a
big unpredictable bird flapping around and causing chaos.
It is likely the UN would band together to try and solve the problem of the Ziz….maybe
we wouldn’t be so bothered by it if it had always been around, we probably would have
adapted to the Ziz, making it an egg shield…or…nest…
I guess we’d call it….
And maybe we’d ask it to live in remote area of the world so it didn’t bother humans
too much….
But if the Ziz just turned up one day or wasn’t so good at negotiating, I am betting that
humans would do that classic human thing we do and decide to try and kill it…..which
could be a big mistake.
As we know, the Ziz is huge, so we would have to use pretty intense weapons to harm it….
I am imagining not even the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon on earth, could
rid us of the ziz as we would have to fly to detonate it, and zizzy babe could just
flap one of her wings to take down our planes anyway.
Also, I really don’t think we would want to anger this ginormous bird!
As we know, one of her eggs is enough to destroy 63 cities – can you imagine what chaos she
could cause if she got in a flap?
The Ziz is said to be the ruler of all birds… so can you imagine what hellish chaos she
could rally if she wanted without even having to move herself?
She could set a plague of birds upon us all…instead of birds doing their usual thing….
The Ziz could turn them all against us.
It would be like the hitchcock movie The Birds but with one huuggeeeee antagonist.
Not only that, if we hurt the Ziz, the blooming Massiah will be annoyed.
The Ziz was supposed to be getting plump on earth so that, the end of time, the pious
may eat it at a big elaborate feast….
If we suddenly take bird off the menu, God might be pissed.
I think we just have to face it….
We would have to learn to live with and respect the Ziz.
Many of us may worship it.
If we harnessed her properly, perhaps her eggs could solve world hunger.
January the 5th, currently national bird day, would be the new Christmas… and the new
easter…all rolled into one eggtastic day.
Final thought – if the Ziz was real, then this would confirm the existence of the Behemoth
and Leviathan and the Massiah….which really throws this question wide open… so I think
we should leave it there!
What do you guys think would happen if the Ziz was real?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
Also, don’t forget to tell me your favourite bird!
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate, I’ll catch you in the next video, but until then, stay
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