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Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places |
Leviathan
Engraving by Gustave Dore
| Description | A
huge sea serpent mentioned in the Bible. The name means
"coiling" At the End of Days, the Behemoth and Leviathan will
battle, destroying each other.
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| Related to | Behemoth
Lotan - "The fleeing serpent, the coiling serpent, the powerful with the seven heads" that was killed by Baal, according to the legends of the Canaanites (an ancient Semitic culture that lived in the region of Palestine before being conquered by the Israelites around 1000 b.c.)
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| Described By: | Job 41:
14-34 - "Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride." Psalms 104: 24-26 - "O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." Isaiah 27: 1 - "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
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