Legendary sea monsters

Thursday, July 9, 2009 | | |


* 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
* 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
* Curruid, the sea monster who killed the Coinchenn
* Hydra, Greece
* Iku-Turso
* Jörmungandr, the Norse Midgard Serpent.
* Kraken
* Leviathan
* Loch Ness Monster
* Proteus
* Scylla of Homer, a six-headed serpentine that devoured six men from each ship that passed by
* Sirens of Homer
* The Rainbow Fish
* Tiamat
* The constellation Cetus
* Yacumama, South America

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