Ridya

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

• 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.
• Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 25b