Bahamut's fame arrived to the Arabian deserts, where men transformed it from elephant or hippo into a fish swimming in groundless eternal waters, above which stand a bull, a ruby mountain, an angel, six hells, the earth and seven heavens.
"We can read in a legend reaped by Lane: «God created the earth but the earth didn't have a ground, thus He created an angel beneath the earth. But the angel didn't have a ground and under the feet of the angel God created a cliff made of rubies. Still the cliff didn't have a ground and beneath the cliff He created a bull with four thousand eyes, ears, noses, mouths, tongues and feet. But the bull didn't have a ground and beneath the bull God created a fish named "Bahamut", and under the fish He put water, and beneath the water He placed darkness, and human science cannot see beyond that point.»
Jorge Luis Borges & Margarita Guerrero in The Book of the Imaginary Beings (1967)
Above this text: illustration by Kim Schrag.
3 comments:
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Good post.
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