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  2. Kraken - Wikipedia

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    The kraken (/ ˈ k r ɑː k ən /, from Norwegian: kraken, "the crookie") [6] [7] 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.

  3. Human interactions with molluscs - Wikipedia

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    Many-headed and tentacled monsters appear as the Gorgon and the Medusa of Greek mythology, and the kraken of Nordic legend. The taxonomist Carl Linnaeus named the Venus shell as Venus dione, for the goddess of love and her mother, and named its parts using overtly sexual descriptors.

  4. Kraken in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Age of Mythology (2002) [36] Archon II: Adept (1984) : Features a Kraken as one of the elementals. [37] Final Fantasy (1987) [38] Forge of Empires added Kraken to the Oceanic Future age in 2017 [39] God of War II (2007) Set in the world Greek mythology, the Kraken is the final barrier between the player character Kratos and the temple of the ...

  5. The sea in culture - Wikipedia

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    The earliest art representing boats is 40,000 years old. Since then, artists in different countries and cultures have depicted the sea. Symbolically, the sea has been perceived as a hostile environment populated by fantastic creatures: the Leviathan of the Bible, Isonade in Japanese mythology, and the kraken of late Norse mythology.

  6. Portal:Myths - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Orion (/ ə ˈ r aɪ ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or Ὠαρίων; Latin: Orion) was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. Ancient sources told several different stories about Orion; there are two major versions of his birth and several versions of his death.

  7. Scylla - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Scylla [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL-ə; Ancient Greek: Σκύλλα, romanized: Skýlla, pronounced) 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. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so ...

  8. Aëtos - Wikipedia

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    Zeus and an eagle, krater (c. 560 BC), now in the Louvre In Greek mythology, Aëtos (Greek: Ἀετός, romanized: Aetós, lit. 'eagle') is an earth-born childhood companion of Zeus, the king of the gods, who served as the origin of the Eagle of Zeus, the most prominent symbol of the god of thunder.

  9. Ichnaea - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Ichnaea (Ikhnaia) (Greek: Ιχναίη), "the tracker" was an epithet that could be applied to Themis, as in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, [1] or to Nemesis, who was venerated at Ichnae, a Greek city in Macedon.