Bahamut

Bahamut (Arabic بهموت, DMG Bahamut ) is an Arab legend, a miraculous fish swimming in bottomless waters and carries the entire building in the world to be. In a tradition it is said:

The myth is based on the legendary prehistoric monster Behemoth, which is mentioned in the Book of Job in the Old Testament.

In the Arabian Nights is reported that Bahamut was so big and bright that no man could endure the sight of him. All the seas of the world, housed in one of his nostrils, would be like a grain of mustard seed in the middle of a desert. In the 496th night of the Arabian Nights is told that it 'm Isa Maryam (Jesus of Nazareth ) was allowed at his request, Bahamut to see, with the result that he fell unconscious to the floor, and only after three days from his fainting awoke. Maybe is the size and thickness of the legendary fish for the cosmos. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges suspected, however, the idea of an angel on a rock resting on a bull, who stand on the Bahamut, who swim through the unknown, referring to the causal proof of God of Aristotle: So it must, because every cause could be attributed to an underlying cause, give a very first cause in order to avoid a regress ad infinitum.

Trivia

In the computer game series Final Fantasy Bahamut is present in all parts of the main sequence (up to part 2) and almost always appears in the form of a dragon.