Ridya
Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) · numen · Jewish mythology (rabbinic–kabbalistic) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
AN ANGEL SHAPED LIKE A CALF, reported in the first person by a Talmudic traveller. He is authored because the tradition gives him a body, a form and a folio, which is more than several better-known names in this key have.
Domains
- rain
- the waters above and below
Sources
- The angel of rain, who appears in the form of a three-year-old calf with cleft lips: 'I saw Ridya, he looks like a calf.': Reference treatment of Ridya: Ridya is the name of the angel of rain and appears in Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 25b, in a passage where the speaker says 'I saw Ridya, he looks like a calf'; he is described as showing himself, when invoked, in the form of a three-year-old heifer with cleft lips. (secondary); Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 25b (primary)