The map of Europe 500 years ago is better than it is now: not only land, sea and mountains are marked, but also many pictures. People and beasts are painted on the land, and boats and fish are painted in the sea-this is not an ordinary fish, but a monster. This kind of water monster was the "fashion" at that time, and it often appeared on the classical sculptures of European tourist attractions. ?
/kloc-In the middle of the 6th century, various water monsters appeared on a famous map of northern Europe.
The water monsters in China's myths and legends are different from those in Europe. From the Dragon King to Xie Qiang in Xia Bing, most of them are incarnations of freshwater animals in rivers and lakes. However, most monsters in Europe come from rumors of sailors. The most wonderful thing is the deep-sea monster: some have lion-like heads and glowing eyes, and some are like the overseas version of China's "Dragon". If you want to compare with any legend, I'm afraid it's the super giant octopus and the so-called "sea snake".
From the13rd century, it is said that there was a huge water monster named "Kraken Tentacles Of The Deep" in the deep water of the Norwegian Sea. It only surfaced occasionally. When it is not moving, it looks like an island. When it moves, huge waves will overturn the ship, and sometimes it will catch the whole ship. "craken" refers to the giant octopus, which appears in various legends and sci-fi works, and Verne's Two Wan Li under the Sea is no exception. There are indeed huge cephalopods in the deep sea, including octopus and squid, but so far, the largest squid found is 14 meter long, and the largest octopus is only 7 meters long, which is far from the legend of craken. Of course, most myths and legends are far-fetched and far-fetched. For example, the rapids and bubbles suddenly produced by volcanic activity under the sea in Iceland are also said to be "sea monsters"; Some giant sea monsters "seen" are actually whale remains or floating seaweed piles.
Another kind of "sea monster" refers to a huge "sea snake". /kloc-in the 0/8th century, it was said that there was a "sea snake" higher than the mast and longer than the hull in the Greenland Sea, but in the ancient legends of northern Europe, the "sea snake" was so big that it was mistaken for a string of islands. In fact, people who are mistaken for "sea snakes" are often yellow croaker, a deep-water bony fish that lives thousands of meters deep in warm waters, and the longest record is 17 meters. But it can't be said that the legendary "sea snakes" are all octopus, because we know too little about deep-sea creatures, and we don't rule out that there are longer and bigger animals in the deep sea.
The monitoring device set up by the United States in the Pacific Ocean found powerful and strange sound waves. I don't know whether it comes from marine animals bigger than whales or from natural phenomena such as sea ice collapse.
The legend of sea monsters in Europe comes from sailing. Because of the mystery of the deep sea, sometimes the boundary between science and myth is not clear. For example, when Linnai established the biological nomenclature in the18th century, he took the scientific name of "craken" and classified it as Cephalopoda, which was later cancelled. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, dozens of tons of "sea monster" bodies were found off the coast of Florida. Later analysis proved that it was just a pile of whale fat.