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4Q510–511, also given the title Songs of the Sage or Songs of the Maskil (שירי משכיל "instructor"), [1] is a fragmentary Hebrew-language manuscript of a Jewish magical text of incantation and exorcism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, [2] specifically for protection against a list of demons. [3]
The Leviathan (/ l ɪ ˈ v aɪ. ə θ ən / liv-EYE-ə-thən; Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן, romanized: Līvyāṯān; Greek: Λεβιάθαν) is a sea serpent demon noted in theology and mythology. It is referenced in several books of the Hebrew Bible , including Psalms , the Book of Job , the Book of Isaiah , and the pseudepigraphical Book of ...
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
In medieval Jewish folklore, Rahab is a mythical sea monster, a dragon of the waters, the "demonic angel of the sea". Rahab represents the primordial abyss, the water-dragon of darkness and chaos, comparable to Leviathan and Tiamat. Rahab later became a particular demon, inhabitant of the sea, especially associated with the Red Sea. [13]
Every month, a virgin had to be sacrificed for the demon or the people of Maldives were to face his wrath. [2] A girl was chosen from the inhabitants by the king or his advisers and she would be kept alone on the first night of the month in an isolated temple at the eastern seafront in Malé . [ 2 ]
The same demon is called a mukkelevi in Shetland, where it was considered a nasty sea-trow or sea-devil. [ 5 ] Samuel Hibbert , an antiquarian of the early nineteenth century, considered the component nuck of the nuckelavee's name to be cognate with both the Nick in Old Nick, a name sometimes given to the Devil of Christian belief, and with the ...
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The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustave Doré (1865). Lotan (Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎚𐎐 LTN, meaning "coiled"), also transliterated Lôtān, [1] Litan, [2] or Litānu, [3] is a servant of the sea god Yam defeated by the storm god Hadad-Baʿal in the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. [3]