Link to BE AMAZED Channel [ Ссылка ]

The history of the Kraken goes back to an account written in 1180 by King Sverre of Norway. As with many legends, the Kraken likely originated based on sightings of a real animal, the giant squid. Back then the any encounter with an unknown animal could gain a mythological edge from sailors' stories. After all, the tale grows in the telling, especially when that tale involves a slimy dangerous sea creature that has been known to attack humans and boats - Even as recently as 2003 one attempted to take down a french sailing yacht! However, as giant squid aren’t likely to surface, others claim that volcanic activity is a better explanation for these myths. Underwater volcanic activity is common around the Norwegian Sea, creating bubbles and dangerous currents which can easily be interpreted as a monster in the depths.

The legend developed
As word grew, the kraken legend evolved with hearsay. Many tales talk of the Kraken, but sometimes there are stories that mention multiple giant cephalopods. They worried about Krakens making whirlpools in the sea that could suck their ships down. Norwegian natural history books even claimed that sailors would foresee a krakens approach with fleeing sea-life and they apparently also used Kraken faeces to attract fish, but then the Kraken itself would appear and eat the fish.Because of its sheer size, the kraken is interpreted to have magical powers, but it didn’t originally.

Scientists believed it existed
Prior to the 1870s, scientific opinion held such creatures as nothing more than ridiculous myths, on par with mermaids or sea serpents. Despite this, investigations into the existence of the legendary Kraken took place as early as the 1840s. The Kraken myth grew so strong that it could be found in Europe’s first modern scientific surveys of the natural world in the 18th century such as in the first edition of the ground breaking Systema Naturae (1735).

It was believed to sink ships
Another Zoologist, Pierre Denys de Montfort, stdies giant cephalopods in the 1700s after hearing accounts form captains of giant tentacles being discovered and went on to cite old pieces of artwork and ship disappearances as evidence of these beasts. After 10 ships went missing in 1782, de Montfort made the bold assumption that the Kraken was to blame. The boats were truthfully lost in a hurricane and his reputation was ruined.

Google Earth Kraken
Swimming off the coast of deception island near Antarctica, some have claimed there is kraken-like creature visible using google earth that seems to be 120m long from head to end with an abdomen similar to that of a giant squid. The google ruler measures the abdomen as around 20 to 30m long squid, meaning the creature is likely far larger than any giant squid can reach. However, even though it looks deceptively similar to a kraken from a birds eye view, on closer inspection, this is just a huge rock. Similarly, older Legends also tells of sailors that mistook the creature for an island but instead of simply debating the picture online, they were said to sailtowards it.

свернуть