Hudhud (English: Hoopoe, Arabic: الهدهد, Turkish: Ibibik, Persian: هدهد, Urdu: ہوپو / ہد ہد) was, according to the Quran, the messenger and envoy o...
Hudhud (English: Hoopoe, Arabic: الهدهد, Turkish: Ibibik, Persian: هدهد, Urdu: ہوپو / ہد ہد) was, according to the Quran, the messenger and envoy of the prophet Sulayman. It refers to the sagacious birds in Islamic mythology, also referred to in The Conference of the Birds, a Persian poem by Attar of Nishapur as the "king of birds". The bird appears twice in the 27th chapter of An-Naml. Hudhud, as described by the Quran played an important role between Sulayman and Queen of Sheba while carrying messages between the two.The word "birds" appears thirteen times in the central religious text of the Muslims, while the word "bird" appears five times, including the Hoopoe twice, which in Islamic belief is often recognized as a creature for communication activities.
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Abath
An Abath is a legendary creature resembling a unicorn, first appearing in records in the 16th century.
Accounts of the Abath were brought back by 16t...
An Abath is a legendary creature resembling a unicorn, first appearing in records in the 16th century.
Accounts of the Abath were brought back by 16th-century European travellers to the Malay Peninsula. Described as female, with a single horn growing from its forehead, it is speculated that these were probably the result of a half-glimpsed Javan or Sumatran rhinoceros. Like the unicorn, a powder made from this horn supposedly served both as an aphrodisiac and as an antidote to poison. However, since the unicorn was invariably represented as male, and since there was only ever one in existence at any time, the Abath seems to have developed independently from the European myths of the one-horned creature.
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