Rokh
The Rokh or Roc is a giant Oiseau of mythology arabo - Persian. One meets it in particular in passages of the Thousand and One Nights in Histoire of Sindbad the sailor : … an enormous bird with the formidable wings… … spreading the darkness on the island. … extraordinary bird of size… … in an island extremely moved away, and which could raise an elephant.
The ratites of Madagascar called Aepyornis would be one of the influences of the imagination of the writers who invented this bird.
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