1) Quranic figure 
[mythology] The Ababil were a race of birds, mentioned in the Quran, that protected Mecca from the Yemeni army by dropping red clay bricks on the Yemen elephants as they approached. This was, according to the Quran, done in 571, the year that Muhammed was born. It was said to have come from the seventh sky (heaven) and once its work was don...