Kujata in the cosmic support tradition
- Date of account
- Medieval Islamic cosmographic tradition
- Location
- Cosmic structure beneath the earth
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Kujata is a gigantic bull appearing in versions of the medieval Islamic layered-world cosmology, often placed beneath a fish or above other cosmic supports. The creature is encountered through cosmographic writing rather than through a claimed field observation. It matters as a comparative lead because it shows how animal forms, numerical cosmology and inherited Near Eastern world-support motifs were reorganized in Arabic and Persian scholarship. Attribution to individual authors, including al-Qazwini or al-Thaʿlabi, requires checking manuscript-specific passages rather than relying on popular diagrams.
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