Category: Skye Research
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MATH 017 Monsters N
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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MATH 017 Monsters L
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…
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MATH 017 Monsters K
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…
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MATH 017 Monsters J
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…
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MATH 017 Monsters I
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…
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MATH 017 Monsters H
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: H AFGUFA an Icelandic monster. Found in the black depths of the Greenland Sea, this island-sized sea monster would follow the lead of our previous turtle-friend and disguise itself as a string of rocks when it rose from the sea at low tide. It was described in…
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MATH 017 Monsters G
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: GIANT SNAKE OF THE DEEP GLOBSTER atr modern monsters Usually washed-up carcasses. bleached organic masses that appear on coastlines and are instantly unrecognisable. GOBLIN SHARK a modern monster, seen in Japanese waters, off the coast of Florida, and Australia. It is the only member of the Mitsukurinidae…
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MATH 017 Monsters F
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: FRILLED SHARK found in Australia, it is a modern monster. It is a living fossil. Rarely sighted. It has 300 teeth. It is 6 feet in length. Eel shaped body.
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MATH 017 Monsters E
Originally posted on Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research: ERYTHEIA one of the Hesperides who were evening nymphs in Greek Mythology They were guarded by the daughters of Nyx and Atlas or Erebus. They were named Aigle, Arethusa, Erytheia, Hespere and Hesperethusa. One of the labors of Hercules was to capture the golden apples.ERYTHEIA one of…
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