Leviathan, the Great Sea Serpent, Part One: Here Be Dragons

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Without further delay, please enjoy this first installment in a series on the myths and mysterious sightings of sea serpents. In the last episode we discussed the extinction of the the dinosaur, but did all of them die off? Could there be some surviving dinosaurian species that has was the basis of our foundational sea monster and dragon myths, creatures that have been encountered by sailors throughout history? Be sure to visit the website at historicalblindness.com to view images and find links to further reading as well as a list of scholarly sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.4	The world is filled with many questions, such as, did giants exist?
0:08.9	What is junk DNA? Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.6	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans, and that's why there are so many UFO sightings off the coasts of islands all over the world?
0:20.7	How serious even is climate change
0:22.8	and when should we start building our rafts? Hello everyone. You may recognize me as Gabby from
0:27.7	the History of Everything podcast. And my name is Brunna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:33.9	Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in our new podcast, Mystery of Everything, available everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:44.0	Hello, everyone. My name is Wesley Levesay from the History of the Second World War podcast. Join me on a journey to the most destructive conflict in human history, a journey that will take us
0:54.5	not just through the famous campaigns and cataclysmic battles, but also to the lesser well-known
0:59.6	corners of the war that touched millions all over the world, as we try and answer not just
1:04.3	the questions of what and where, but how and why. You can find History of the Second World War
1:10.1	on all major podcast platforms or at
1:12.5	History of the Second World War.com. Before we get started, a big thanks goes out to my newest
1:19.1	patrons, or Mike, and Onick. I'd also like to thank some listeners for writing in with corrections. Thank you to Vladislav,
1:29.1	who informed me after my episode A Tale of Two Babylon's, that in Bulgaria, Easter is more commonly
1:35.9	called Velikdin, or Great Day, rather than Pasha, which is their word for Passover. Nevertheless,
1:43.5	I do think that my point still stands
1:46.2	that their word for the holiday is clearly not derived from Ishtar or Ashtar, but I do appreciate
1:53.0	the correction. And I'd also like to thank Lydia, who loves paleontology, and let me know that I
1:59.1	made an egregious error that will forever be evident even in the
2:03.1	title of the last episode, The Great Dying, which is actually a nickname for the Permian
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