Kinnier Wilson reads a pericope about one of these creatures as a parody of what would ensue if a certain character was given "the divine office of glory.
Kinnier Wilson reads a pericope about one of these creatures as a parody of what would ensue if a certain character was given "the divine office of glory." The female name for these creatures is used in a passage describing them crying, because "the rivers of waters are dried up" and how fire has destroyed the wilderness. One is said to dwell in the "waste wilderness" called Duidain in the Book of Enoch. A tractate called "The Last Gate" describes how the female one of these creatures was "cooled off," while the male one was castrated; that's because if these creatures ever copulated, they would destroy the world. One of these creatures  has "his testicles bound[ed] by twisted cords" and a tail "stiff like a cedar" according to a passage that states "a thousand mountains" bring him food and that it "drink[s] up the Jordan." A description of the Leviathan precedes a description of, for 10 points, what unidentifiable creature in the Book ofJob thought to be a beast? 
Kinnier Wilson reads a pericope about one of these creatures as a parody of what would ensue if a certain character was given "the divine office of glory.
Behemoths