Sea monster, the Glossary
Sea monsters are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size.[1]
Table of Contents
154 relations: Abaia, Adomnán, Andromeda (mythology), Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, Aspidochelone, Atragon, Avienius, Bakunawa, Basilosaurus, Basking shark, Bill Peet, Bloop, Book of Jonah, Bus, Cadborosaurus, Capricorn (astrology), Celtic mythology, Cetus (mythology), Champ (folklore), Charybdis, Chesapeake Bay, Chessie (sea monster), Chilean blob, Cirein-cròin, Clash of the Titans (1981 film), Clash of the Titans (2010 film), Clover (creature), Coi Coi-Vilu, Collagen, Colossal squid, Crab, Cretaceous, Crow's nest, Cryptozoology, Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Deep Rising, Deep Shock, DeepStar Six, Denmark–Norway, Devil Whale, Dinosaur, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur, Dragon, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, Elias Lönnrot, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Folklore, Gáe Bulg, Genetic testing, ... Expand index (104 more) »
- Mythological aquatic creatures
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Abaia
Abaia is a huge, magical eel in Melanesian mythology.
Adomnán
Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (Adamnanus, Adomnanus; 624 – 704), also known as Eunan (from), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint.
Andromeda (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Andromeda (Androméda or label) is the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia, and his wife, Cassiopeia.
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Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans
Anthonie (Antoon) Cornelis Oudemans Jzn (November 12, 1858 – January 14, 1943) was a Dutch zoologist.
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Aspidochelone
According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back. Sea monster and aspidochelone are sea monsters.
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Atragon
is a 1963 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Avienius
Postumius Rufius Festus Avienius (sometimes erroneously Avienus) was a Latin writer of the 4th century AD.
Bakunawa
The Bakunawa is a Serpent, that looks like a Dragon in Philippine mythology. Sea monster and Bakunawa are mythological aquatic creatures.
Basilosaurus
Basilosaurus (meaning "king lizard") is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago (mya).
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Basking shark
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark.
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Bill Peet
William Bartlett Peet (né Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Bloop
Bloop was an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997.
Book of Jonah
The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament.
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Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.
Cadborosaurus
Cadborosaurus, nicknamed Caddy by journalist Archie Wills, is a sea serpent in the folklore of regions of the Pacific Coast of North America.
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Capricorn (astrology)
Capricorn (Aigókerōs, Latin for "horned goats") is the tenth astrological sign in the zodiac out of twelve total zodiac signs, originating from the constellation of Capricornus, the goat.
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Celtic mythology
Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples.
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Cetus (mythology)
In Ancient Greek ketos (κῆτος, plural kete/ketea, κήτη/κήτεα), Latinized as cetus (pl. ceti or cete. Sea monster and cetus (mythology) are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.
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Champ (folklore)
In American folklore, Champ or Champy is the name of a lake monster said to live in Lake Champlain, a -long body of fresh water shared by New York and Vermont, with a portion extending into Quebec, Canada.
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Charybdis
Charybdis (lang|Khárybdis,; lang) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Sea monster and Charybdis are sea monsters.
Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.
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Chessie (sea monster)
In American folklore, Chessie is a sea monster said to live in the midst of the Chesapeake Bay. Sea monster and Chessie (sea monster) are sea monsters.
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Chilean blob
The Chilean blob or Chilean monster (Monstruo chileno) was a large globster (mass of organic tissue) found on Pinuno Beach in Los Muermos, Chile in July 2003.
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Cirein-cròin
Ceirean,Forbes p7; Dwelly Cirein-cròin or cionarain-cròForbes, p385 was a large sea monster in Scottish Gaelic folklore. Sea monster and Cirein-cròin are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.
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Clash of the Titans (1981 film)
Clash of the Titans is a 1981 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Desmond Davis and written by Beverley Cross, loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus.
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Clash of the Titans (2010 film)
Clash of the Titans is a 2010 action fantasy film and remake of the 1981 film of the same name produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the rights to which had been acquired by Warner Bros. in 1996 through its purchase of Turner).
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Clover (creature)
Clover is the production name given to the giant monster in the 2008 film Cloverfield.
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Coi Coi-Vilu
Coi Coi-Vilu or Caicai-Vilu/Cai Cai Vilu (from Kaykayfilu; Kaykay, a name, and filu, "snake") is the Mapuche god of water (or goddess, in some versions found in Chiloé) and, according to Mapuche myths (later also found in Chiloé), supreme ruler of the sea and of all sea-dwellers. Sea monster and Coi Coi-Vilu are mythological aquatic creatures.
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Collagen
Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.
Colossal squid
The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is the largest member of its family Cranchiidae, the cockatoo or glass squids, with its second largest member being Megalocranchia fisheri.
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Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
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Crow's nest
A crow's nest is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of a ship or a structure that is used as a lookout point.
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Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.
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Cthulhu
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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Deep Rising
Deep Rising is a 1998 American action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen and Anthony Heald.
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Deep Shock
Deep Shock is a 2003 American science-fiction-horror film that debuted as a Sci Fi Pictures TV-movie on the Sci Fi Channel.
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DeepStar Six
DeepStar Six (released in the Philippines as Alien from the Deep) is a 1989 American science-fiction horror film directed and co-produced by Sean S. Cunningham.
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Denmark–Norway
Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.
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Devil Whale
The Devil Whale is a legendary demonic whale-like sea-monster (or a sea-turtle in some legends). Sea monster and Devil Whale are Maritime folklore and sea monsters.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
is a 1980 Japanese animated science fiction adventure film based on the manga series Doraemon, particularly the first volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series.
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Dragon
A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide.
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
is a 1966 Japanese '' kaiju'' film directed by Jun Fukuda and produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd.
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Elias Lönnrot
Elias Lönnrot (9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Gáe Bulg
The Gáe Bulg (also Gáe Bulga, Gáe Bolg, Gáe Bolga), meaning "spear of mortal pain/death", "gapped/notched spear", or "belly spear", was the name of the spear of Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Genetic testing
Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.
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Giant Pacific octopus
The giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini), also known as the North Pacific giant octopus, is a large marine cephalopod belonging to the genus Enteroctopus and Enteroctopodidae family.
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Giant squid
The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae.
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Giant squid in popular culture
The giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales.
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Globster
A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.
Godzilla
is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda.
Gorgo (film)
Gorgo is a 1961 British science fiction monster film directed by Eugène Lourié and starring Bill Travers and William Sylvester.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.
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Hafgufa
Hafgufa (haf "sea" + gufa "steam"; "sea-reek"; "sea-steamer") is a sea creature, purported to inhabit Iceland's waters (Greenland Sea) and southward toward Helluland. Sea monster and Hafgufa are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.
Hans Egede
Hans Poulsen Egede (31 January 1686 – 5 November 1758) was a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland.
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
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Here be dragons
"Here be dragons" (hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
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Himilco
Himilco was a Carthaginian navigator and explorer who lived during the late 6th or early 5th century BC, a period of time where Carthage held significant sway over its neighboring regions.
Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
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Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.
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Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
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Iku-Turso (creature)
Iku-Turso ("the eternal Turso"; also known as Iku-Tursas, Iki-Tursas, Meritursas, Tursas, Turisas among others) is a malevolent sea monster in Finnish mythology, best known for appearing in the Kalevala. Sea monster and Iku-Turso (creature) are sea monsters.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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It Came from Beneath the Sea
It Came from Beneath the Sea is a 1955 American science fiction monster horror film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman and Charles Schneer, directed by Robert Gordon, that stars Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, and Donald Curtis.
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Jaws (franchise)
Jaws is an American thriller film series that started with a 1975 film that expanded into three sequels, a theme park ride, and other tie-in merchandise, based on a 1974 novel.
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Jörmungandr
In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (lit, see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Miðgarðsormr), is an unfathomably large sea serpent or worm who dwells in the world sea, encircling the Earth (Midgard) and biting his own tail, an example of an ouroboros.
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Kalevala
The Kalevala is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.
Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae or seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
Kraken
The kraken is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. Sea monster and kraken are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.
Kraken in popular culture
References to the fictional kraken are found in film, literature, television, and other popular culture forms.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain (Lac Champlain) is a natural freshwater lake in North America.
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Lake Ikeda
is a caldera lake located south of Kagoshima city; Kyūshū island, Japan.
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Lernaean Hydra
The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna (Lernaîa Húdrā), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine lake monster in Greek mythology and Roman mythology. Sea monster and Lernaean Hydra are mythological aquatic creatures.
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Leviathan
The Leviathan (Līvyāṯān; Λεβιάθαν) is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology.
List of piscine and amphibian humanoids
Piscine and amphibian humanoids (people with the characteristics of fish or amphibians) appear in folklore and fiction.
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Loch Ness
Loch Ness (Loch Nis) is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately southwest of Inverness.
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster (Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
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Los Muermos
Los Muermos is a city and commune in Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region in southern Chile.
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Luca (2021 film)
Luca is a 2021 American animated coming-of-age fantasy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
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Lusca
In Caribbean folklore, the Lusca is a name given to a sea monster said to exist in the region of the blue holes nearby Andros, an island in the Bahamas. Sea monster and Lusca are sea monsters.
Lyngbakr
Lyngbakr (Icelandic, lyngi "heather" + bak "back") is the name of a massive whale-like sea monster reported in the Örvar-Odds saga to have existed in the Greenland Sea. Sea monster and Lyngbakr are mythological aquatic creatures and sea monsters.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Makara
Makara (translit) is a legendary sea-creature in Hindu mythology. Sea monster and Makara are mythological aquatic creatures.
Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Megalodon
Otodus megalodon (meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs.
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 American black comedy fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, written by Sam Hamm, produced by Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and executive produced by Chris Columbus, Selick, and Hamm.
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Monster
A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion.
Moray eel
Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide.
Morgawr (folklore)
In Cornish folklore, the Morgawr (meaning sea giant in Cornish) is a sea serpent that purportedly inhabits the sea near Falmouth Bay, Cornwall, England.
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Mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous.
Mothra
is a fictional monster or kaiju, that first appeared in the 1961 film Mothra, produced and distributed by Toho Studios.
Ningen (folklore)
In modern Japanese folklore since the mid-2000s, the Ningen (ニンゲン) is an aquatic humanoid whale-like creature supposedly inhabiting the subantarctic oceans.
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Ninjago: Seabound
Seabound is the fourteenth season of the animated Ninjago television series (titled Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu before the eleventh season).
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Nobita Nobi
Nobita Nobi is a fictional character in the Doraemon anime and manga series created by Fujiko Fujio, the pen name of writing team Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko.
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Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
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Nuuk
Nuuk (Nuuk, formerly Godthåb) is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Octopus
An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
Ogopogo
In Canadian folklore, the Ogopogo is a lake monster said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Sea monster and Ogopogo are mythological aquatic creatures.
Okanagan Lake
Okanagan Lake (kɬúsx̌nítkw) is a lake in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Perseus
In Greek mythology, Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς, translit. Perseús) is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty.
Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Plesiosaur
The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Pliosauroidea
Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
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Poseidon
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus (Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (hálios gérôn).
Science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.
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Scylla
In Greek mythology, Scylla (lang|Skýlla) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis. Sea monster and Scylla are sea monsters.
Sea goat
The sea goat or goat fish is a legendary aquatic animal described as a creature that is half-goat and half-fish. Sea monster and sea goat are mythological aquatic creatures.
Sea monk
The sea monk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. Sea monster and sea monk are mythological aquatic creatures.
Sea serpent
A sea serpent is a type of sea monster described in various mythologies, most notably in Mesopotamian cosmology (Tiamat), Ugaritic cosmology (Yam, Tannin) biblical cosmology (Leviathan, Rahab), Greek cosmology (Cetus, Echidna, Hydra, Scylla), and Norse cosmology (Jörmungandr). Sea monster and sea serpent are Maritime folklore and sea monsters.
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Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is an American children's television series that ran from September 8, 1973 to October 18, 1975, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and aired on Saturday mornings.
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Siren (mythology)
In Greek mythology, sirens (label; plural) are humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
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Squid
A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St.
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Stranded Deep
Stranded Deep is a survival video game developed and published by Australian studio Beam Team Games for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Linux.
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Taniwha
In Māori mythology, taniwha are large supernatural beings that live in deep pools in rivers, dark caves, or in the sea, especially in places with dangerous currents or deceptive breakers (giant waves). Sea monster and taniwha are sea monsters.
Tero Entertainment
Tero Entertainment Public Co.
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
is a 1975 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Yukiko Takayama, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Henry G. Saperstein, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 American science fiction action horror film directed by Eugène Lourié, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is 2010 high fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni, based on the 1952 novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published and fifth chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The Rift (1990 film)
The Rift, also known as Endless Descent, is a 1990 film directed by Juan Piquer Simón and starring R. Lee Ermey.
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The Sea Beast (2022 film)
The Sea Beast is a 2022 animated adventure film directed by Chris Williams, who co-wrote the screenplay with Nell Benjamin and produced with Jed Schlanger.
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The Terrible Dogfish
The Terrible Dogfish (Il Terrìbile Pesce-càne) is a dogfish-like sea-monster, which appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le avventure di Pinocchio) as the final antagonist.
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a portal fantasy novel for children written by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1952.
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Thor
Thor (from Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism.
Tiamat
In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 or, Thaláttē) is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high".
Tlingit
The Tlingit or Lingít are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022) federally recognized Tribes of Alaska.
Triton (mythology)
Triton (Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.
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Umibōzu
is a giant, black, human-like being and is the figure of a yōkai from Japanese folklore. Sea monster and Umibōzu are mythological aquatic creatures.
Water horse
A water horse (or "waterhorse" in some folklore) is a mythical creature, such as the Ceffyl Dŵr, Capaill Uisce, the bäckahäst and kelpie.
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Yacumama
Yacumama (from Quechua yaku "water" and mama "mother": "Mother of water"), is an enormous serpent believed to live in the Amazon Rainforest.
Zodiac
The zodiac is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north and south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year.
Zuiyo-maru carcass
The was a corpse, caught by the Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of New Zealand in 1977.
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See also
Mythological aquatic creatures
- Afanc
- Ahuizotl (mythology)
- Altamaha-ha
- Amemasu
- Apkallu
- Atosis
- Ayakashi (yōkai)
- Bakunawa
- Boobrie
- Borda (legendary creature)
- Bukavac
- Cancer (astrology)
- Cetus (mythology)
- Cirein-cròin
- Coi Coi-Vilu
- Dobhar-chú
- Gaasyendietha
- Gloucester sea serpent
- Hafgufa
- Ichthyocentaurs
- Kappa (folklore)
- Kraken
- Labbu
- Lake monster
- Lernaean Hydra
- Lotan
- Lyngbakr
- Makara
- Merfolk
- Mokele-mbembe
- Mugwump (folklore)
- Muldjewangk
- Nguruvilu
- Ogopogo
- Piscine and amphibian humanoids
- Ponaturi
- Rahab (term)
- Sea goat
- Sea monk
- Sea monster
- Sea monsters
- Selkie
- Tlanchana
- Umi zatō
- Umibōzu
Sea monsters
- Akhlut
- Akkorokamui
- Akugyo
- Apotamkin
- Aspidochelone
- Bishop-fish
- Caballo marino chilote
- Ceto
- Cetus (mythology)
- Charybdis
- Chessie (sea monster)
- Cipactli
- Cirein-cròin
- Devil Whale
- Glashtyn
- Gonakadet
- Hafgufa
- Iku-Turso (creature)
- Isonade
- Koromodako
- Kraken
- Lusca
- Lyngbakr
- Rahab (term)
- Rannamaari
- Scylla
- Sea Swine
- Sea monster
- Sea serpent
- Sea serpents
- Sea-griffin
- Sea-lion
- Sisiutl
- Taniwha
- Tannin (monster)
- Tlaltecuhtli
- Watcher in the Water
- Zaratan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_monster
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