1698年にハンフリー・プリドー(Humphrey Prideaux)<ref>イギリスの東洋学者。1648-1724。</ref>は、ジズを巨大な天空の雄鶏のようだと表現している。
<blockquote>''バビロニア・タルムード''(Babylonish Talmud)の『''バヴァ・バトラ''(Bava Bathra)』書には、ジズと呼ばれる驚異的な鳥の話があり、その足は地の上に立ち、頭は天に届くという。そして、ジズはその翼を広げて太陽の軌道を暗くし、皆既日食を引き起こす。</blockquote>
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{{quote|For in the Tract ''Bava Bathra'' of the ''Babylonish Talmud'', we have a Story of such a ''prodigious Bird'', called ''Ziz'', which standing with his Feet upon the ''Earth'', reacheth up unto the ''Heavens'' with his head, and with the spreading of his Wings darkneth the whole Orb of the ''Sun'', and causeth a total ''Eclipse'' thereof. This ''Bird'' the ''Chaldee Paraphrast'' on the ''Psalms'' says, is a ''Cock'', which he describes of the same bigness, and tells us that he crows before the ''Lord''. And the ''Chaldee Paraphrast'' on ''Job'' also tells us of him, and of his crowing every morning before ''the Lord'', and that ''God'' giveth him Wisdom for this purpose.<ref>{{cite book |last=Prideaux |first=Humphrey |title=The True Nature of Imposture Fully Displayd in the Life of Mahomet |year=1698 |publisher=William Rogers |location=London |pages=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QhdSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA60&q=ziz}}</ref>}}
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