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vermium · 2 years

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The Sea Bishop

#mermay #mermay 2022 #a #sea-bishop #anxious to be returned to the water

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legend-collection · 2 years

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Sea-Bishop

The sea bishop or bishop-fish was a type of sea monster reported in the 16th century. According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of Catholic bishops, to whom the bishop-fish gestured, appealing to be released. They granted its wish, at which point it made the sign of the cross and disappeared into the sea.

Another was supposedly captured in the ocean near Germany in 1531. It refused to eat and died after three days. It was described and pictured in the fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historiae animalium, published in 1551 – 58 and 1587.

The Sea Monk, or sometimes Sea Bishop, was the name given to a sea animal found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It has also been sighted by two fishermen and some nearby swimmers in Pula, Croatia in the year 2011 and is one of the more popular sightings of the cryptid in the Adriatic sea. It was described as a "fish" that looked superficially like a monk. It was mentioned and pictured in the fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historia Animalium. Gesner also referenced a similar monster found in the Firth of Forth, according to Boethius, and a sighting off the coast of Poland in 1531.

The sea monk was subsequently popularized in Guillaume du Bartas's epic poem La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde, where the poet speaks of correspondences between land and sea:

"Seas have (as well as skies) Sun, Moon, and Stars; (As well as ayre) Swallows, and Rooks, and Stares; (As well as earth) Vines, Roses, Nettles, Millions, Pinks, Gilliflowers, Mushrooms, and many millions of other Plants lants (more rare and strange than these) As very fishes living in the Seas. And also Rams, Calfs, Horses, Hares, and Hogs, Wolves, Lions, Urchins, Elephants and Dogs, Yea, Men and Mayds; and (which I more admire) The mytred Bishopand the cowled Fryer; Whereof, examples, (but a few years since) Were shew'n the Norways, and Polonian Prince."

#sea-bishop #poland #europe

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catatombi · 1 month

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im just playing dress up w/ them at this point lol

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cryptid-quest · 3 months

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Cryptid of the Day: Sea Bishop

Description: Similar to Sea Monks, the Sea Bishop was an unusual creature seen throughout the waters of Europe, including one case where the King of Poland captured a specimen. They are capable of speech, grant wishes, and can make the sign of the cross. One was captured in Germany in 1531.

#cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology #cryptid of the day #sea bishop

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chimeride · 27 days

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Vepar, the 241st Known One.

#demon #Ars Goetia #it sais they are venomous so stingray !#sea creature #merfolk #bishop #the Known Ones #Vepar #monster #chimera #creature design #bestiary #ink #sting ray #shark #964 #aer 4 #octem 121

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mournfulroses · 6 months

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Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "Twelfth Morning,"

#lit #elizabeth bishop #poetry #twelfth morning #writings #selected poems of elizabeth bishop #sea #p

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evviejo · 6 months

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thirteen’s era appreciation: 318/?

#dwedit #timelordgifs #chibnalldaily #doctorwhoedit #doctor who #dan lewis #ying ki #legend of the sea devil #john bishop #marlowe chan-reeves #13seraappreciation #my gifs #dan*

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sun-with-sunglasses · 3 months

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KALLAMAR AU :P

#art #fanart #au #cotl au #cotl lamb #lamb cult of the lamb #cotl kallamar #cult of the lamb kallamar #bishop kallamar #follower kallamar #kallamar #sea angels #leaf sheep #sea bunny

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s-h-a-s-e · 3 months

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i thought i was only gonna manage two parts for thirteen's era, but i was wrong!! there's still a few left to go, which means even more of one of the loveliest TARDIS exteriors <3

[1] [2] [3] [4.1] [4.2] [5] [6.1] [6.2] [7] [8] [9.1] [9.2] [10.1] [10.2] [10.3] [10.4] [11.1] [11.2] [11.3] [11.4] [11.5] [12.1] [12.2] [12.3][12.4] [13.1] [13.3] [14]

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beluharts · 4 months

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cult of the lamb fanart i don't really have the motivation to finish right now sadly.

really really loved cult of the lamb and i'm doing my second playthrough

#art #my art #fanart #digital illustration #furry art #illustration #art wip #cult of the lamb #i was going to add the crowns of the bishops #but i didnt know how to add them along with the sea of lamb statues #narinder getting it though #love to see it tbh

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tyrantisterror · 4 months

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Sea Bishops & Sea Monks

Ok, so, two of my favorite obscure medieval sea monsters are the Sea Bishop and the Sea Monk - basically what you'd get if mermaids were Catholic. The above examples are particularly monstrous, but sometimes they look a bit more civil.

And you know me, I love obscure monster from myth and folklore, especially when they're really weird and kinda goofy. So obviously I've been trying to figure out how to adapt these two into my fantasy setting. The obvious route would be to make them specific variants of mermaids, but that feels a little underwhelming, so I thought on it and waited for a bit.

Well, inspiration hit recently.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it, but I've been playing a new video game called Baldur's Gate 3, and one of the side effects of that is that I've been reminded that squid people are pretty fucking cool as a concept, and, as it goes, that made me want to figure out how I could put my own twist on the trope. And as I was thinking of how I could make a squid person that stands out from other pop culture squid people, it occured to me that having a squid head... kinda makes you have the same silhouette as a person wearing a bishop/pope hat. Like some sort of... sea bishop. And sure, design-wise this would be a bit more of a departure from the source material than I usually take when making a Midgaheim version of a mythic creature, but a lot of the key features - the big head, the bishop hat, the flowing cape, the spindly legs - are still there, just in a remixed way.

and fuck you, I want squid people dammit

So these are Midgaheim's take on Sea Bishops - roughly human-sized relatives of krakens, who use magic to help them breathe and walk on land and are prone to disguising their inhuman anatomy with flowing robes. They're very smart and can be dangerous enemies when provoked.

While digging up pictures of Sea Bishops to see if my take was justifiable enough by the loose standards I adhere to with Midgaheim beasties, I found that fucking terrifying picture of the Sea Monk you saw at the top of this post, and immediately my brain went, "Oh, that's a shark. That's a shark that's trying to look like a human so it can get close to you. That's fucking terrifying." And, well, it's pretty hard to lose that mental image once you have it, and it basically made Sea Monks feel more concrete in my mind. They're human-imitating magic shark people. I made mine a bit less horrifying (by basing them on one of the cutest animals on earth, the great white shark), but there'd be at least a few other species of Sea Monk beside my example here, and at least one would have that ghastly "deep sea creature dragged to the surface" look of that medieval drawing up top.

#Midgaheim #Sea Bishop #Sea Monk

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sophiecowdrey · 2 years

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harmonizingsunsets · 2 years

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Brom embracing his new "hubby" status.

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justahumblememefarmer · 4 months

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Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 18

Episode Summaries under the cut

116: Legend of the Sea Devils - Season 13 Special 2: The Doctor, Yaz, and Dan meet Pirate Queen Madame Ching in her search for a treasure hidden by the Sea Devils.

141: The Lie of the Land - Season 10, Episode 8: The alien Monks have conquered the Earth following Bill surrendering it to save the Doctor. Through psychic propoganda, they have altered history to make humanity think that they have always been present, as benevelont guides. Anybody immune to the propoganda is arrested. Nardole finds Bill, and helps her to track down the Doctor, who has been making propoganda videos for the Monks. They sneak aboard the ship where he's beeing held and the Doctor insists that he is working for the Monks, causing Bill to grab a guards gun and shoot him. He begins to regenerate, but then reveals that it was actually an elaborate test to make sure that Bill wasn't under the Monks influence, and that he's actually been working to deprogram his guards from the Monks control.

They escape the ship and head to the Doctor's vault, where he reveals that Missy is inside. Missy states that she's dealt with the Monks before and the only surefire way to break their control is to kill the person who originally let them into the planet, which would be BIll. Looking for alternate solutions, the Doctor tries to figure out how the Monks maintain control, realizing that the statues of themselves they put up everywhere are psychic transmitters. They vow to break into the Monk's Cathedral to change the signal to the transmitters to be one of resistance.

They reach the center, fighting off the Monks, and the Doctor fails to override the controls, getting knocked out by a Monk. Bill links herself up and focuses on her memories of her mum, overriding the broadcast and freeing the people of Earth. The monks flee, erasing the memories of their invasion from the people of Earth.

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alihsi · 6 months

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Monstober Day 20: The sea monk is a Danish creature with possible origins from the descriptions after capturing a monkfish, squid, or guitarfish. The typical depiction is of a monk head on top of a scaly body, with squid tentacles. I pulled some elements from depictions of the version called the sea bishop as well as embellishing with some of my own elements. Pentel brushpen, Windsor & Newton fine-line marker, and Prismacolor fine-line marker on Canson mixed media.

#Monstober #Monstober 2023 #MonstoberDay20 #sea monk #sea bishop #monster #creature #Danish creature #mistaken identity #fish person #art #my art #October drawings #October drawings 2023 #pen and ink #black and white #drawing #cryptid

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chimeride · 1 month

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#chess #bishop #sea creature #crab #beetle #bug #chimera #bestiary #monster #creature design #ink #octem 121 #961 #aer 4 #the Unknown #demon

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