thumb|300px|Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and [[Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD.]] The Ziz () 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.
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thumb|300px|Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and [[Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD.]] The Ziz () 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.
== Description == It is considered a giant animal/monster corresponding to archetypal creatures. Rabbis have said that the Ziz is comparable to the Persian Simurgh, while modern scholars compare the Ziz to the Sumerian Anzû and the Ancient Greek phoenix.