Kraken: Mythical Giant Squids from the Deep

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Kraken: Fearsome Monster or Misunderstood Squid?

The Kraken is a mythological creature stemming from Norse Origins. It has built a history running through history from ancient sailors to modern day pop culture. Come follow the path of the Giant Squid they call Kraken.

What is a Kraken?

What makes up the Giant Squid called a Kraken

Kraken eating a boatThe Kraken is often described as an enormous sea creature that would attack ships and eat sailors whole.

It is said that Kraken are part Octopus, Crab, Squid, and even Cuttlefish.

Some even say it is a relative of the Whale or Giant Turtle.
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The Official Kraken Poem

by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening open huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Kraken Attacking a boat

The Kraken in Action!

Video of the Kraken Doing its Kraken Thing

The Kraken
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The Kraken in Film

Movies with Kraken in them

The Kraken has recently revived his popularity in the well-known film Pirates of the Caribbean but that wasn't this big boys' first appearance on the silver screen.

Kraken have also appeared in:

Pick one of these up today and begin your Kraken Education!
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Ride the Kraken! Win a T-shirt!

The Kraken Roller Coaster in Sea World Orlando


Kraken Roller Coaster


 

The Kraken Lives on today torturing young souls in the form of a roller coaster located at Sea World in Orlando, Florida.

With top speeds of 65 miles an hour, 7 inversions, 3 tunnels, and the distinction of being the first floorless roller coaster in Florida this steel behemoth lives up to its namesake. In this incarnation the Kraken is portrayed as the guardian of Atlantis, an apt role for this beast of the deep.

Survived the kraken Dark T-Shirt

If you have in fact survived the Kraken then you must get the T-shirt to prove it! Go ahead, you definitely earned it!

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Tell me Your Kraken Myths

What is your favorite Kraken Myth? Tell me all about it and I'll do my best to incorporate it into my Kraken Tale.

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