Category: MATH Maritime Anthropology
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MATH 017 Monsters Z
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: ZIN KIBARU a West African monster. It is said to lurk in the rivers and lakes of West Africa including the Niger River. These deadly water spirits are blind and capable of commanding fish. They are referred to in tales told by Songhai and Zambian tribal members.…
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MATH 017 Monsters Y
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: YACU-MAMA a South American monster. This large water snake can grow up to 60 meters in length. Rumored to reside in the Amazon river basin. It is the ‘mother of all marine life’ It can suck up any passing life within 100 paces.
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MATH 017 Monsters W
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: WHALE SHARK a modern monster. It can grow up to 6 feet in length and weighs 2 tons. WHALER DAPHNE’S MONSTER WHALES are a modern monster that consists of marine species that vary in size. They are aquatic placenta marine mammals. Cetaceans, which excludes dolphins and porpoises.…
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MATH 017 Monsters U
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: UM IBOZU a Japanese monster. a creature, this sea-spirit has been referenced in multiple sightings by Japanese sailors. It appears when the sea is flat. It quickly roils and stirs the ocean, causing ships to break apart and sailors to scramble for their lives.
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MATH 017 Monsters T
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: TERRIBLE DOGFISH Described in The Adventures of Pinocchio as a ginormous dogfish. This monster Is bigger than a five-story building and almost a kilometer long, excluding its tail. It also had three rows of teeth. It has enough room in its throat to swallow an oncoming train.…
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MATH 017 Monsters S
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: SCYLLA a Greek monster. A concoction of wild imaginings, with four lidless eyes, twelve tentacle-legs, six necks, the tail of a cat and a collection of dog-heads around her waist. She lived at the edge of a strait, beside the whirlpool of Charybdis. She lived under a…
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MATH 017 Monsters R
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: RATTRAY HEAD MONSTER RHEDOSAURUS (Fictional Character): Also known as ‘The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’, this slumberous dinosaur looks a little like a komodo dragon and rises from the sea in a rage and makes short of a lighthouse in Ray Bradbury’s story ‘The Fog Horn’. RUSALKA a…
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MATH 017 Monsters Q
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.
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MATH 017 Monsters P
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.…
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MATH 017 Monsters O
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…
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