Bar Juchne

Infobox Paranormalcreatures
Creature_Name = Bar Juchne


Image_Caption =
Grouping = Local legend
Sub_Grouping = Bird
AKA =
Country = Middle East
Region = Uncertain
Habitat = Uncertain
First_Reported = The Talmud
Last_Sighted =
Status = Local Legend

Bar Juchne or Bar-Yuchnei is a colossal legendary bird from Jewish mythology which was believed to have a wingspan large enough to blot out the sun.

The first mention of the creature comes from the "Talmud" (Bekhorot, fol. 57 col. 2)"A Talmudic Miscellany", "trans" Paul Isaac Hershon, Routledge, 2001, ISBN:0415244587 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hZMmqwFjplwC&pg=PT234&lpg=PT234&dq=%22Bar-Yuchnei%22&source=web&ots=tZ2FEdcfea&sig=8zRyAYbdEkzEAIABmdhHyYDFPTw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Google Books] ] which tells of a Bar Juchne egg falling from its nest and destroying 300 cedars and flooding 60 villages/cities. ["Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge", FA Cox, Griffin, 1852 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-f0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA427&dq=%22Bar+Juchne%22&client=firefox-a Google Books] ] The "Talmud" says of the event: 'The question therefore arose, "Does the bird generally throw out its eggs?" Rav Ashi replied, "No; that was a rotten one."'

It is said that it would be roasted, along with Leviathan and Behemoth, and served at a banquet for the Children of Israel at the coming of the Messiah. ["The Classical Journal", Vol XVI, Sep/Dec 1817, London [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W3ISAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA92&dq=%22Bar+Juchne%22&client=firefox-a#PPA92,M1 Google Books] ]

ee also

*Roc
*Angha
*Zig
*Ziz
*Thunderbird

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