Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 146:9

(סימן כעפרא דתכילתא טרקתיה עקרבא לסלתיה)

Rabbah b. Bar Hana further related: Once we travelled on board a ship and we saw a bird standing up to its ankles in the water while its head reached the sky. We thought the water was not deep<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there was no water'. ');">¹⁸</span> and wished to go down to cool ourselves, but a <i>Bath Kol</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 'heavenly echo', 'divine voice'; a lower grade of prophecy, v. Glos. ');">¹⁹</span> called out: 'Do not go down here for a carpenter's axe was dropped [into this water] seven years ago and it has not [yet] reached the bottom. And this, not [only] because the water is deep but [also] because it is rapid. R. Ashi said: That [bird] was <i>Ziz-Sadai</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] is rendered by the Targum (Ps. L, 11). 'the wild cock whose ankles rest on the ground and whose head reaches the sky'. ');">²⁰</span>

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