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robertsapunarich:

Destruction of Leviathan-Gustave Dore

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victoriousvocabulary:

LEVIATHAN

[noun]

a sea monster referred to in the Bible. In Demonology, the Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper (see Hellmouth - the entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster). The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature. In literature (e.g., Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick) it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew, it simply means “whale.”

baroquetheoria:

Behemoth & Leviathan.

“All the seas of the world, placed in one of the fish’s nostrils, would be like a mustard seed laid in the desert.”