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Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: QALUPALIK an Inuit monster.: It lives between ice floes. It watches the surface world from the cold abyss. It is skeletal, green-skinned with long, searching fingers ending in sharp nails.

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: PONATURI a Māori monster.: These horrible goblins roam in a land beneath the sea. and return to shore in the evening to sleep. They are unnatural beings that are harmed by sunlight and have a frog-like image, with bulbous eyes and bulging gills. POSEIDON a Greek God.…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: OARFISH A modern monster. They are large greatly elongated pelagic lampriform found in tropical oceans and aquariums at sea parks. . They are rarely seen in the wild. It is the longest bony fish alive. It grows up to 36 feet in length. Several have washed ashore…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: NAHANT BEACH MONSTER a sea serpent also known as the Gloucester Sea Serpent, during the 1800’s. First sighting was 1638 at Gloucester. A story of a Native American forbidding the Englishman from killing it as it would bode ill. In 1817, another serpent was seen off Cape…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: MAKARA a Hindu monster. These sea creatures are protectors positioned as guardians at throne entrances and entryways into sacred sites and temples. Makara is also a word used to describe any animal/human hybrid with a mixed land animal torso and aquatic lower body, like a mermaid. MANTA…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: LABBY a Babylonian monster. An ancient Mesopotamian creature that took the popular form of a sea dragon. It slithered into the Epic of Gilgamesh at fifty-leagues long. LADON an immortal Greek monster who had 100 heads. He guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides of which Hercules…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: KAPPA a Japanese monster. A hirsute water sprite or ‘water tiger’ that was notoriously impish. It looks like a cross between frog and tiger, with a turtle’s carapace. KELPIE a Celtic monster. This form-changing water spirit had a ghostly image. It takes the form of a beautiful…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: JAPANESE SPIDER CRAB s modern monster. It can grow up to 15 feet from claw to claw. They can live up to 100 years. JONAH’S WHALE a Judea-Christian monster. According to the Old Testament, Jonah was swallowed by a whale, as a result of denial to God’s…

Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: ICHTHYOCENTAURS a Greek monster. Portrayed in classical Greek statues, these humanoid sea beings were curious-looking centaurs with human torsos, equine fore-legs and the tail of a fish. They are also known as sea-centaurs. IKO TURSO is a Finnish sea monster. It is also known as the ox…