Legendary Sea Monsters
- The Aspidochelone, a giant turtle or whale that appeared to be an island, and lured sailors to their doom
- Capricorn, Babylonian Water-Goat, in the Zodiac
- Cetus
- Charybdis of Homer, a monstrous whirlpool that sucked any ship nearby
- Cirein-cròin
- Coinchenn, from whose bone the Gae Bulg is made in Celtic mythology
- Hydra, Greece
- Iku-Turso, reputedly a type of colossal octopus or walrus
- Jörmungandr, the Norse Midgard Serpent.
- Kraken, a gigantic octopus, squid or crab-like creature
- Leviathan
- Makara
- Proteus
- Scylla of Homer, a six-headed, twelve-legged serpentine that devoured six men from each ship that passed by
- Sirens of Homer
- Taniwha
- The Rainbow Fish
- Tiamat
- Umibōzu
- Yacumama, South America
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Famous quotes containing the words legendary, sea and/or monsters:
“All legendary obstacles lay between
Us, the long imaginary plain,
The monstrous ruck of mountains”
—John Montague (b. 1929)
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)