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Revision as of 04:13, 26 March 2011
A painting of a Kraken "attack".
The Kraken attacking a ship
The Kraken as a mythological creature was first mentioned in the Bible, more specificly in the story of Jonah, who was swallowed by it. In this legend it was described as a large whale, similar to Monstro in the Disney movie Pinocchio (1940)
The Kraken has also been discribed as both a giant squid of monstrous proportions and even in some stories as a great island-fish or turtle that masquerades as a land-mass that mysteriously disappears overnight. Also, the legend of the Kraken has even been atributed to sightings of prehistoric remnants of creatures thought extinct, such as the Elasmosaurus, or the Megalodon.
Kraken have been mistaken for North Atlantic giant squid that regularly come up against sperm whales. The problem with this assumption is that the Kraken as a mythological figure is much larger than even the 30-foot long giant squid.
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