== 動物モデルの可能性も ==
In comparatively recent times, a [[Bennu heron|large species of heron]], now extinct, lived on the Arabian Peninsula. 比較的最近まで、アラビア半島に今は絶滅した大型のサギの一種が生息していた。 It shares many characteristics with Bennu. It may have been the animal after which Bennu was modeled by the ancient Egyptians during the New Kingdom.<ref>{{cite conference |title=Reflections on prehistoric life at Umm An-Nar (Trucial Oman) based on faunal remains from the third millennium B.C. |last=Hoch |first=Ella |date=1977 |book-title=South Asian Archaeology 1977 |editor=M. Taddei |pages=589–638 |conference=Fourth International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe}}</ref>
==Worship==