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In the Wyld Waters of primeval times there was Nehebkau, one of the original gods in Egypt. As a giant snake he traversed the primeval waters. He is considered to be eternal, which might have started the theme of snakes being symbols of immortality.

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Indo-European pantheons are wide and regionally diverse, but each has echoes of the original core, the most obvious being the presence of the Thunderer: whether Thor, Vudra, Zeus, Perun, or Taranis, gods of sky and weather take a central part in their pantheons.

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Clouds in the winter sky may be more than they seem: in some versions of the Wild Hunt, their ride manifests as a massive, quick, and violent storm across the sky, the horns of the Valkyrie and howls of the dead carrying across the sky.

🖼: P. N. Arbo

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Ayakashi in Japanese literally means, "strange phenomenon of the sea," and is a term used for yokai who appear in the liminal spaces between the surface of the sea/ocean and the air.

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"The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish..."

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami


🖼️Ksottam

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Living in the river the terrifying dragged off unsuspecting victims & caused flooding in the Conwy Valley. Lured onto land by a beautiful young woman, the Afanc was captured & taken to a new home in the deep & secure in

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There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
art by Sebastian Giacobino

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In Ukrainian folklore, Topelnik is a malicious spirit that lives in the water. It catches people by their legs and drags them all the way down to the bottom.



🎨 Emile Sultanov

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Easter Monday 1360: Edward III was marching on Chartres & his troops were camped outside the city. Night fell & the temperature plummeted. In 30mins, freezing rain, ice balls, & panic caused by thunder, lightning & raging winds killed 100s of men & 1000s of horses.

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“He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end” (Corto Maltese quoting another restless soul)

Wyrd Mother here to lead you to strange waters

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🖤 this illustration of the Spouter-Inn. That wonderfully windy, atmospheric tavern in New Bedford, Mass. —from the opening pages of Moby Dick before they ship out 📚⚓️📜


(🎨 Tarek)

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2022-06-09

🌊🌩️🌊The Doom Bar at Padstow, Cornwall - a wide sandbar notorious for shipwrecks - is said to have been raised in a violent storm by a Mermaid who cursed the town with her dying breath after being shot.

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Have to mention the nail boat for
Naglfar is a battleship to be made of the dead's nail clippings (why Norse funerary rites included trimming the nails as to not provide building material). The ship's completion with Loki as captain is one sign of the end times.

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"Of grim Vikings, and the rapture
Of the sea fight, and the capture..."
—Longfellow


🖼️Naglfar by Johan Egerkrans

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It has been said the pirate Blackbeard, who sailed the Caribbean & Atlantic coast of N. America on his ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, practiced Voodoo. It’s believed he learned this practice at a young age when his family lived in Jamaica circa 1695.

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Superstitions abound when on the open seas. One such fear states you should never bring 💐Flowers💐 onboard a ship, believing them to be harbingers of doom due to their connection w/death.☠️

When gifted flowers upon departure, you must throw them overboard ASAP.

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For in keeping with the theme, here is Drury, not much bothered by being at the bottom of harbour.

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THE SHADOWY WATERS (1904) During his occult phase folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of a voyage by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end to an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds 🎨Hans Thoma 1839-1924

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Ching Shih, a former Chinese prostitute who became a pirate, controlling the Red Flag Fleet which comprised 1700 - 1800 ships. She ran them as a collective & cooperative enterprise, sharing the loot & enforcing a strict moral code and law system.
🎨Jourdan Tuffan

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