A whale skeleton in Nam Hai Temple, Hon Da Bac, Khánh Bình Tây commune, Trần Văn Thời District, Cà Mau Province
Several Eastern folk religions practice in the worship of whales. This practice is common in Vietnamese folk religion, where it is known as Cá Ông. In Vietnamese religion, whales are believed to be guardian angels that protect fishermen. Beached whales are buried and given funerals, and festivals are held in honor of whales.
In Japanese mythology, the water deity Ebisu is associated with whales, and Ainu mythology features several cetacean deities. Whales have also played important roles in Korean, Chinese, and Māori mythology.
practice in the worship of whales. This practice is common in Vietnamese folk religion, where it is known as Cá Ông. In Vietnamese religion, whales are believed...
hdl:11250/2990288. Naumann, Nelly (1974). "Whale and Fish Cult in Japan: A Basic Feature of Ebisu Worship", Asian Folklore Studies, 33(1). Neave, Dorinda...
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to...
Another important focus of worship of water deities has been springs or holy wells. As a form of animal worship, whales and snakes (hence dragons) have...
band associated with The Funeral Orchestra Ocean Chief, in whaleworship, a name for whales in many Chinese cultures This disambiguation page lists articles...
modern Icelandic) boli, "bull", Old English bulluc, "bullock", Greek φαλλή, "whale". The Hohle phallus, a 28,000-year-old siltstone phallus discovered in the...
creature that swallowed Jonah is often depicted in art and culture as a whale, the Hebrew text uses the phrase "large fish". In the 17th century and early...
"It's rare for a whale to come up to this place. Legend has it that they built a shrine to worship it. For some reason, there are many whale legends in this...
"Inside the Whale" is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell...
monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out...
underlying real animals" often confuse the whale, mammoth, and unicorn: they conceptualized the mammoth and whale as aquatic, as well as the mammoth and unicorn...
of the mass are based on the voices of whale, harp seal, and wolf. In 1968, when he attended a lecture on whale songs by Roger Payne at Rockefeller University...
such as the crocodile. The word later came to be used as a term for great whale and for sea monsters in general. Gesenius (among others) argued the name...
For the first appearance in the series of recurring villain "Dale the Whale", Adam Arkin played the part, which was later taken over by Tim Curry. Other...
folk religion is not an organized religious system, but a set of local worship traditions devoted to the "thần", a term which can be translated as "spirits"...
mates on the year-long Newsboys United tour. Joel's debut book, Redwoods & Whales, was released by Thomas Nelson on 16 April 2019. In 2020, while much of...
sperm whale. This powerful image is no longer considered accurate given the evidence that exists for a simpler predator-prey relationship between whale and...
Ghost whale Cetus (Greek) – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail Devil Whale (English) –...
evidence of a ship buried deep in the swamp, and Rick hones in on his white whale....shaft six. 139 9 "The Unusual Suspects" January 4, 2022 (2022-01-04)...
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