The Kraken - Exploring the Origins Behind the Legendary Sea Monster
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Today we finally examine the infamous Kraken, where the stories came from, how it became so popular and why we're so obsessed with the horrors in represents.
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I'm not afraid of much but if I saw a set of eyes and massive tentacles in the sea my heart would indeed stop
That is good. If you would get a specific different feeling, I would be worried very much.
Just as you said "tentacles" i thought about a lot of things..
Imagine being in the depths of the ocean, the water fading to a black wall when suddenly movement swirls ever so slightly, your not sure if the darkness was playing tricks or not, only to see this beast emerge from the hazy nothing coming in your direction.
@@Kanuui- I would jump overboard and swim right up to its eye. Give it the good ol ‘make contact’
Unless it started speaking Japanese of course
Every time the word Kraken is said it reduces the chance someone is attacked by one, so technically I just saved the whole world. 🦑🦑
Finally, a new video! Why the wait? Was it the animation.
@@wcapewell3089 nope our man messed up the recording of sound by somehow unplugging the mic during the recording😂😂😂
That new intro though
@@danielalexandre89 praise the legend, worth it👍🏻
@@wcapewell3089 The intro did take longer than planned but this video was meant to be out just after Christmas, holiday flu and new year procrastination sucks.
If you’re gonna be visiting sea lore, maybe you could do a video on The Flying Dutchman
Defo. That would be a boss vid. Also, a vid on the Queen Anne's Revenge and her legendary captain. Class tha
i'd say that i regret that my first thought after reading that comment was of the spongebob character... but i don't lol i loved spongebob LOTS of real world mythology references if you look behind the silliness (King Neptune, for example...)
Yeah thatd be dope
"Ghost Ships" in general, really
Out of all the mythical creatures, the Kraken and the Leviathan are probably the only ones that actually scare me.
Probably because they live in the oceans and imagining seeing them in such a remote area is scarier than seeing them in a more civilized area.
*Jormungandr has entered the chat.
Apophis lurks.
Typhon says "Hold my beer."
(Sorry. I'll stop. I'll see myself out.)
How ironic Sperm whales and squids fight each other in real life , the leviathan is a ginormous whale, and the kraken is a collasul squid .
"Hello Beasty"
- Jack Sparrow
Love that movie
Why is rum gone.
Gets Up o that's WY
Ah I see you are a man of culture as well.
People of culture in the comment section 🤍
The Kraken is mentioned in the novelization of Godzilla: King of the Monsters as a squid-like Titan with a shell that was observed by Monarch in the Indian Ocean. When it heard the call of King Ghidorah, it played dead before breaking free from the containment unit after sinking it.
Nicholas Lienandjaja HOLY SHIT REEEEEE u rit bru HAHAHAHAHAHA LOOOOL
That's cool, but also literally fiction. So..... Thanks?
It also appears in the GVK prequel comic Godzilla: Dominion, there renamed to Titanus Na Kika
The kraken is a giant octopus
If the kraken was indeed real, and I saw it my heart would sink deeper than the ocean itself
Never know we never discover the whole sea never know what could be hiding
deeper than Ruby Gillman's box office sales?
I mean, there was a James Bond movie called "Octopussy".
I knew someone will write that in the comment
What sort of monstrous vag would have to squirt out the Cetus?
That's probably my favorite Roger Moore James Bond movie.
It was wild!
Even Q got some in that film.
is that the porn film?
put two and two together
When my friend and I started playing Sea of Thieves, we didn't know there was a kraken to find. During a storm, we met it and we just saw enormous tentacles around our ship. That was the most terrefying thing I have experienced in a video game XD.
Got us in the first half not gonna lie
Not unlike how I randomly happened upon one in Zelda: the Wind Waker
Play Alien Isolation, I screamed like a girl
@Boldizsár Szabó I'm not lying. It was shown as a set piece, not a gameplay feature.
Just to make it more creepier; there is no known 'official' documentation of an ''adult'' Colossal Squid; only the 'young' which easily attain 4.5 - 6m in size.
Now add it a more differentiated species of gigantic octopi; such as the legend of Lusca; and no people would ever want to go swimming onto open ocean or 'water holes' ever again
Wow i didn't know that is this really true... that we dont have official record for adults one
@@sharanpatel2072 precisely. People whose diving on argentine; falkland islands; and experimental divings at antartica uphold a serious risk; apart from the leopard seals and killer whales; there're titanic adult colossal squids whose have no second thought to attack and consume a diver. (Apart from the whole ningen legends; and the southern oceans where the Bloop and similiar mysteriously organic underwater sounds've recorded - whose just couldn't be interpreted and forgotten as simple icequakes)
The ocean is now 100 times more terrifying.
@@timrosswood4259 It always was and will be dangerous
@@thedoruk6324 yes, indeed.
Additional, despite the villainous organization in Marvel Comics being called Hydra, its symbol is a Kraken.
The organization was known as Hydra ... so why would they use a Kraken. I the image is a Hydra.
That always bugged me.
Some theorize that the hydra monster from greek myth was inspired by squids
In German we use the word "Krake" for octopus which is very much derived from the kraken. That it was associated with Greek mythology I was not aware though, it was always northern European folklore.
Also I think the symbol from that James Bond movie is the kraken because it stretches its arms out into everywhere.
Fits. Kraken could well be "the krak" with the way Scandinavian languages work.
Yes, the arms wrapping around the world, symbolising that Spectre is everywhere, doing evil.
Its not associated with greek myth. Its just a hollywood BS.
Raggeti
And I don't think it's Krak-en anyway I always heard it said Krayk-en.
Pintel
What with a long A
Raggeti
Aye
No-no-no-no-no-no-no Krock-ens how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian.
Raggeti
Well we ain't original Scandinavians are we. Krock-en!
Pintel
It's a mythological creature I can call it what I wants.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that you can tell these jokes and still sound like you're keeping a straight face throughout the whole video 😂😂😂
Yeah, it's incredible
adding laughing emojis to your comment is the equivalent of adding a laugh track to a sitcom
@@misteranderson8618 umm you have something you wanna say bud?
@@misteranderson8618 The laugh track must die.
@@kagekun7689 Yes, the laugh track / canned laugh is a sickness that must he culled.
Normal midwifes in the Birthing Center: "Push!"
Intellectual midwifes: "R E L E A S E T H E F E T U S"
😂😂😂😂
Or in Latin "Releasus Thy Fetus"
Loki: (horse noises)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fry cooks making the kraken into calamari: "*RELEASE THE GREASE!!!"*
Thanks. I'm now going to cancel that sea trip I never planned
Am I the only one who absolutely adored the intro?🙏🏽🙏🏽
*Jack Sparrow has entered the chat*
Damn you Jack sparrow
Davy Jones
*Flying Dutchman has sent friend invite to Jack Sparrow*
And He expects the invitation
So u know Borderlands
Love the intro is it gonna be in every video
Yeah It will be the new channel intro.
@@MythologyFictionExplained its super dope!! 👍
Somewhere I remember reading that they’ve found whales with suction cup scars larger than any known giant squid could have made
Ehhh, "speculated". Storytales, sure, scientific is still horrendously big.
Well the kraken lived in the past so a giant squid could have grown that big and possibly died giant squid have really only been actually documented in the past 20 years before that even they were considered a myth made up by Jules verne
Oh and if U think about it a ship from below would look like a whale it's already been proved that giant squid and whales are enemies and kill each other a lot
Sailors chilling
Hears from a distance
----- RELEASE THE KRAKEN -----
*Oh no*
Kiril Postnikov oh noooo !
🦑 🌊
"Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up to the sky with hope! And let this day be forever cursed, by we who ready to wake... THE KRACKEN!!!!"
The kraken feels like Cthulhu’s(or Dagon) lieutenant.
True
Seeing this beast my first thought was "Dovahkiin ? We need you man !"
(cough cough) N'zoth from World of Warcraft.... tentacles and insanity! tentacles and insanity everywhere!
if i remember correctlt, dagon is cthulu's lieuteneant
@@mb-lr8hb Don't quote me, but I thought Cthulhu was actually like a high priest/demigod-ish/vague because reasons .... Dagon might actually be an actual god, but that only matters if they are worshipped, which is why the various different cults existed. Again, don't quote me. I'm probably close but wrong
This needs to be a podcast of sorts, it's so AWESOME and Interesting and well to say the least damn near perfect
"There may be creatures larger than this."
That's a big NOPE for me.
Jormungandr? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 please no
@@thedarknutsackreturns431 beat me to it.
Just stay inland.
Welcome back Honey!!! I love the new intro!
Aquaman's ending = Preposterously oversized kraken called Karathen. They're everywhere!
The Kraken iconography of House Greyjoy, as well as the Ironborn drowned priests and their chant “what is dead may never die (but rises, harder and stronger) is one big H.P. Lovecraft nod as per author George Martin.
He has many such nods in his Song if Ice and Fire novels. To Lovecraft, other respected authors and even his favorite sports teams
I read Lovecraft AFTER I read SOIF, so I wouldn’t have noticed, but now you got me thinking about it. Lol.
You really seem to do your research. You bring up a lot of references and bring up multiple different possible explanations. Definitely one of the best channels about these kind of topics.
I love the new intro!
Hearing you flip out is honestly hilarious! You normally present yourself as collected and straightforward, but that little tidbit at the end just made my morning LOL
SPECTRE's symbol was the octopus because it had arms going everywhere.
this guys voice is so calming I could go to sleep to it
To answer your Bond question, the symbol for Spectre is an Octopus. They used to to show the organisation had reach everywhere, hence the octopus and its eight tentacles.
Hi,I would just like to commend you on what I can only believe to be exhausting research and work to put together what In my humble opinion is a fantastic, entertaining and educational walk through history and mythology. Thank you very much for taking the time to share your passion with everyone and I truly look forward to seeing more.
The new intro gives me chill down the spine and I love it. It’s so good and I am so much a big fan of it, so pretty.
And in a parallel universe, a shiny Kraken yells "RELEASE!.....THE KAREN"
Love the new intro. LOVE this video! Definitely getting the new year off to a great start with one of my favorite deep-sea legends. :)
Davy Jones, in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" used the line "Release the Kraken before Liam Neson´s Zeus. And yes... WHAT´S GOING ON WITH SPECTER?!!!
Diego S maybe the 2010 version bit sir Lawrence Olivier said the line in the 1981 version. 🦑
no one:
me enjoying actual education I find interesting: nice
I have already elsewhere commented on the excellence of the illustrations and animations in your videos, but you seemed to really go over the top on this one - and I have just seen the introduction ! Brilliant, pure artwork !!!
Love the new intro clip. And i think the kraken just gave me another reason to be thankful I don't live on a boat as I dreamed I would as a child
World of Warcraft has a bunch of Kraken. And they have several different forms from squid to octopuses, to weird fish like sea monster things. It's really interesting how the interpretation of a Kraken can be so different since there isn't a definitive description of it.
They: nah can’t be real
Me: wtf, haven’t you heard of Cthulhu?
Primer ionic primordial god
Hello there.
@@cthulhu8778 General Cthulu
@@cthulhu8778 speak of the devi-
@@cthulhu8778 hello
My most favorite mythical creature of all time. Thank you for making this video!
I love the title sequence with Baba’s house and the zombie soldiers.
Thank you mythology &fiction explains for video
I'd like to thank you for that release fetus joke. If I'm ever a father I'm gonna say that just before she delivers.
Children raised in father-less families have such a hard time. For the sake of your little boy or girl, please don't.
From a fatherless college student, please say it.
being the child of a dad who literally dadjoked me out of my mother’s womb, please do.
As a new mom I wish my husband said release the fetus lol 🤣🤣
Krakeeeeen
That intro was sick 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The ending was hillarious... Lmaoooo 😂😂😂 is it just me or ....
Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope, and let this day be cursed by we who are ready to wake........
.....THE KRAKEN!!!!!!!
I lost it at kraken face. 😂
Also, your new intro is so awesome! You seriously deserve more subs! Keep up the good work!
New to the channel, just wanted to say I love the intro you have for each video! Really well chosen and drawn, and put together!
Love the new introduction, hated the wait but now seeing the new look I feel it was well worth it!
Love the new theme opening and the theme song....
Happy new year
I’m not sure when the intro changed but I’m loving this new intro!
This was the first time it was shown.
I like what you’re doing with the channel with this video. Keep it up!
"release the Cetus"
Warframe players: Plague Star is coming?!
Aw shit here we go again
EARLY LUNCH
saw the intro...subscribed immediately...where have you been all my life
I love the ending. "WHAT IS THAT!?!" 🤣😂🤣
11:06 Ah, I see you're a man of culture 🧐
There is a Swedish author that had the kraken described from a couple of norwegian fishers and in his bok from 1781 and acording to him the kraken is around 130 kilometers or 80 miles long. Arpund the same sice as the island of Öland on the eastern kost of Sweden.
🤣... Dude.... I love your videos, but the last few comments regarding James bond etc.... 😂 killed me 😂 brilliant.
best before-sleep programm i discovered so far! I realy appreciate your work, great job 👏
Ever watched 'Deep Rising'? That's an enjoyable film with a Kraken-esque creature!
I don't know bout others but I really miss that cool background music that you had in your earlier videos .
I feel like, in both Clash of the Titans films, Zeus, way before the movies started, went to Asgard and asked Odin if he could borrow the Kraken for a couple minutes of screentime.
I forgot how much of a gem this channel is
Hotel Transylvania 3 had a cracked 😉great new intro and vid as usual.
Right there with you about the whole WHAT IS THIS reaction to Bond kraken.
Love how you did this one.
And now, we have The Seattle Kraken!🐙
My heart would explode from terror and that not overexerting because that can happen
This is haaaands down the best channel on whole youtube. Love your work! Much love from sweden👌👍🇸🇪
Probably the first time you've Krakked me up with your video.
Really like all the animations
First off. Love the new opener. Second I never notice all the kraken.
I love your new intro.
There is the relation to the names of the revenant/sea-fae of Nordic-Iceleandic folklores - the Draugen-Draugr (whos said to camuflaged as sea-weed covered rocks near the shore) through this: (wikipedia, Kaken) "...Egede also wrote that the krake fell under the general category of "sea spectre" (Danish: søe-trold og [søe]-spøgelse), adding that "the Draw" (Danish: Drauen, definite form)..." The Kraken also similiar to the brazilian Lekuma and mexican cryprid L Cuero, his cousin the japanse Xizi, tge icelandic Vatnaormur.
I will never stop loving that I was born the same year the original CotT was released.
When i used to watch cartoons as a kid , whenever there was a collasul squid , I always referred it as a kraken . ( mostly from the show octunauts and 2015 the Deep )
Loving the new intro💖💖💖 I'm also very confused about the weird kraken james bond thing😂😂😂
I have a book on north mythology going into all the diffrent creatures there are, I just read about the kraken and, well, I never thought the pirates version would feel so small. The book features a quote from a swedish man who wrote a sentance or two in his book about the kraken. In the book he states it's small comparing it to a swedish island that is 137km long. That indicates that in some versions it's even larger, it also mentions it having a larger body with fins instead of just being an octopus. the tentacles was just for grabbing food and was hanging from the mouth of the beast, a bit like cthulhu. it was so big that it was often mistaken to be an island and it is said that some even went so far as to make a fire on top of the kraken before it noticed. it's droppings was good fish food and fishermen would often follow it to get lots of good fish, but when it went back down, a maelstrom would be created by it. The kraken liked eating people and it's also said to from time to time eat whole fishing fleets.
if you bothered reading this, thank you and as I am Swedish I can tell you that the translation would be octopus, not squid.
Nicely explained. Thank you.
yggdrasil in the profile pick and draugr in the intro :) im subbing
See this...
This is why I don’t go on the open ocean. Because you never know if this and Megladon is still around, but even then there is still scary shit out there in the deep.
I LOVE A MAN WITH A KRAKEN IN HIS PANTS.
Oh my how lewd lol
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You didn't mention the book Dwellers in the mirage by Abraham Merritt. This fantasy novel is so beautiful, you cannot but be entirely mesmorized by the characters and the magical green of the underworld realm ruled by goddess Khalk'ru with a Kraken sigil. When I finished this book I cried, I wish it never ended so I could be forever in that mirage. Believe me I was there when I was reading it, I saw everything. It was magical. If there's any of you who haven't read it yet, please do, you won't be sorry, I promise you!
Honestly, I would not be surprised if the kraken or something very similar to it, existed. I mean we know more about space than our own oceans. Maybe that’s one of the reasons so many ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle...😶
My first introduction to kraken was in Sega's ocean hunter arcade game.highly recommend
How epic is the intro. Unholy kraken that was amazing
The new intro is very nice.
a lil bit out if topic but DAMN THIS CHANNEL HAS ONE OF THE MOST EPIC INTRO
Damn i love your vids!
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Funny I get a Kraken ad in this video haha. Interesting video 👌
Brilliant, well thought out and executed video! Hilarious in spots as well. Love the new intro!
My first encounter with the Kraken was in the game Shining Force 2. Its one of the bosses and you fight it on a raft.
Cool intro ! 👍