Talk:Roc (mythology)

message: Wasn't there some enormous flightless bird in Madagascar (Dinornis? Elephant-bird?)? -- Error
Is there some relation between the Roc and the Chinese 鹏 (Peng, which Unicode defines as a "fabulous bird of enormous size")? --Gro-Tsen 12:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly. That translation is an exotic one, and not commonly used. --Buddhasmom (talk) 18:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

text: See the page Kun for information on Peng. The animal in question was a shapeshifting fish/bird, and the bird form's size was never specified, so it's not really that likely. More likely might be a relationship with the Fenghuang, aka the Chinese Phoenix. 82.69.37.32 18:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

message: The article mentions that "Rook" is from this mythological bird, or that it's from a siege-tower mounted on an elephant. The dominant hypothesis, i believe, is that "Rook"  comes from the Persian for "chariot", thus corresponding with Indian / Chinese etc. versions of the chess piece. I'm making a change to reflect that. 82.69.37.32 11:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rook / Rokh

message: I suppose this (spurious?) insertion was inspired by gazing upon the illustration from a children's version of "Sinbad the Sailor" we have for an illustration. In fact, is there any mention of the roc's white plumage? --Wetman 09:49, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Often" white

message: in arabic we said frok - frak (small Chick) 
if you add just (f) to Roc it means the baby bird such as Falcon baby! 
رخ
فرخ 
the word is used until today for the samll birds 
http://www.baheth.info/all.jsp?term=فرخ   Mewoone (talk) 18:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roc رخ in Arabic 

message: I see my reference to the probable identity between the Roc and the giant flying bird Argentavis magnificens has been deleted. Could it be somebody interested in "mythology" doesn't want to consider the possibility - likelihood - that the factual descriptions by Marco Polo and others are good descriptions of a bird they actually saw, and not mythological at all? Although fossils found so far are a few million years old and from Argentina, it's no stretch to expect that such huge birds would have flown to all the continents and wouldn't have died out everywhere at once. The "piglike elephants" described would of course be Indonesian pygmy mammoths which also existed to a late date in these regions, notably on and around islands such as Komodo, where the giant "Komodo dragons" that also preyed on them still exist. craig at saers dot com.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.110.30 (talk) 17:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do not begin accusing other editors of bias. As far as I can see, you have not yet provided a reliable source that explicitly claims the Argentavis is connected to the Roc. Without such a source, it looks as though you are simply coming up with your own original hypothesis. -- Fyrael (talk) 20:22, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Argentavis

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message: *The "Ath Kadha Lihiniya" (Warana) of Sri Lankan mythology, a large elephant headed bird who hunted elephants and soared above casting a shadow as big as a cloud. A painting depicting the mythological creature can be found here https://www.facebook.com/prasannaweerakkody.paintings/photos/a.369401029798463/2935284129876794/?type=3&theater
(I added the above but was reverted. Just wondering why it was removed?)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dasiths (talk • contribs) 12:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related mythologies