Leviathan
“That crooked serpent…the dragon that is in the sea.” Thus was Leviathan, the most stupendous and spectacular of God’s beasts, described in the Book of Isaiah
On the fifth day of Creation, the day upon which God shaped and breathed life into all of the creatures of the sea, He fashioned the mighty and magnificent serpent dragon Leviathan to serve as the ruler of this vast marine kingdom. The boundless coils of its immensely long body were encased in an impervious sheathing of overlapping scales, and it thrashed through the water with such explosive force that the ocean depths boiled like a fathomless cauldron. Its incandescent eyes, more than 300 in number, illuminated the seas beyond and the skies above with their radiant glow. Seething steam jetted forth from its flared nostrils, and brilliant tongues of fire flickered from its enormous jaws.
Initially, God created a pair of these fantastic beasts, but when it became clear that their collective power was so awesome that the entire world was threatened by the prospect of a race of such creatures ultimately establishing itself, God destroyed one of them. …As compensation for the loss of its partner, He granted immortality.
Since then, durning the final three hours of every day, God has played with Leviathan, disporting with His gargantuan creation-and this will continue until the Day of Judgement. Only then will Leviathan die, slain by the Archangel Gabriel…
from Dragons A Natural History by Dr. Karl Shuker, Simon & Schuster 1995
DragonBy the time Mohammad was writing Shaitan was being called ‘the Old Serpent (dragon)’ and ‘the Lord of the Abyss’. The Old Serpent or Old Dragon is according to experts such as E.A. Budge and S.N. Kramer, Leviathan. Leviathan is Lotan. Lotan traces to Tietan. Tietan, we are told by the authorities on Near Eastern mythology is a later form of Tiamat. According to the experts the Dragon of the Abyss called Shaitan is the same Dragon of the Abyss named Tiamat.
from Necronomicon Info Source by Parker Ryan