Leviathan is the great serpent of the sea in Jewish myth, drawn from the biblical monster of Job, Isaiah and the Psalms and elaborated in the aggadah of the Babylonian Talmud. God is said to have created a male and a female Leviathan, then slain the female to prevent the pair from multiplying and destroying the world, salting her flesh for the messianic banquet at which the righteous will dine. Its coiled body encircles the ocean, and God is said to sport with it daily. Together with Behemoth and the bird Ziz it forms the triad of primordial creatures ruling sea, land and sky.