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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Charybdis (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ b d ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, romanized: Khárybdis, Attic Greek: [kʰárybdis]; Latin: Charybdis, Classical Latin: [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Charybdis, along with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas.
Pontoppidan identified the Kraken as a giant polypus (squid/octopus) already in the 18th century and the 16th c. Carta marina shows a fish with tentacles and spikes from the face, which could easily be based on a flawed description of a squid. The modern western popularity of the Kraken as a giant squid is irrelevant based on earlier sources.
Medusa was a popular iconographic symbol at the time due to the interest in Greek mythology by numerous Baroque artists such as Rubens and Caravaggio. The use of Medusa as a symbol has evolved over the course of centuries and has various interpretations of the iconographic meaning, with Rubens' painting based on an interpretation of the Greek ...