to discriminate: the essence of conscious realization.
In this sense Leviathan and Behemoth represent stages in the development of consciousness whereby they become assimilated and humanized.
The fish changes, via the warm-blooded quadruped, into a human being, and in so far as
the Messiah became, in Christianity, the second Person of the Trinity,
the human figure split off from the fish hints at God's incarnation.
previously missing in the God-image, therefore, was the human element."