Category: MATH Maritime Anthropology
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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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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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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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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…
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MATH 017 Monsters M
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…
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