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Sea Serpents
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Sea Serpents covers Leviathan, the sea monster of the Hebrew Bible, invoked as a symbol of chaos that only the divine can subdue. The category is kept separate from the broader sea monsters group for beings whose defining shape is serpentine.
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What Defines This GroupingGreat serpents of the deep. The sea-serpent is the standing form of the chaos adversary in West Asian myth - Tiamat, Yamm, Leviathan - defeated at or before the ordering of the world. 2 Learn More
The sea serpents
This small group gathers sea serpents, the great serpentine monsters of the deep found in the myths and sailors' lore of many peoples, often embodiments of the ocean's danger and the chaos at the edge of the ordered world.
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