Talk:Zaratan

The depiction of zaratan as turtles is actually a creation of Borges, and perpetuated by Dungeons and Dragons. The original saratan were actually giant crabs. Note the following words for crab, listed below: Arabic سَرَطَان‎ (saraṭān) (probably influenced or parallel to Mehri herset, Persian خرچنگ (xarčang) and Tajik харчанг xarcang, Somali carsaanyo) Aramaic (Classical Syriac) ܣܪܛܢܐ (sarṭānā) Hebrew סַרְטַן‎ (sartán) - Miwasatoshi (talk) 03:05, July 7, 2017 (UTC)