A lesser-known example that reminds us of the legendary sea serpents is the sentient Sea-Dragon, a native to the water planet Drexel. During their journey the two Jedi and their clumsy companion encountered an Opee Sea Killer, a Colo Claw Fish and a Sando Aqua Monster. These caves were home to some of the most dangerous marine beasts of the planet.
Their shortest trip lead them into the honeycombed core of Naboo, venturing through the Caves of Eleuabad. Jar Jar Binks wondered if he wouldn’t rather have been punished in Otoh Gunga than have joined Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in their Bongo en route to Theed. We have at least one sequence in the Star Wars saga that must have been inspired by the legends of the sea monsters. Jules Verne’s novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea both feature enormous sea monsters (Mesozoic marine reptiles and a giant squid) and who can forget the voracious sperm whale Moby Dick and the infamous white shark Jaws? These sea creatures may have vanished from our modern charts, but they still linger on in modern literature. Adventurers, sailors and traders claimed to have seen gigantic sea serpents, enormous squids or huge marine mammals or sharks. Those illustrations had heraldic and esthetic value, but they were also based on folklore. Medieval (and also Early Modern Period) marine maps thrived with markings of strange sea monsters. Even after the famous Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator introduced his Mercator Projection (1569) a lot of maps still featured a bunch of weird creatures. Let’s start with a general idea: sea monsters. On several occasions stories involving mythological creatures have influenced scenes in the Star Wars movies or television series. Therefore, the link between Earth mythology and the creatures and sentients of the saga may not be as obvious as with some of the other fabled beasts that made their way into a galaxy far, far away… Since the Bible didn’t include too many clues towards the appearance of these monsters, the behemoths and leviathans featured in Star Wars and many other stories come in many different forms. Other leviathans lived on Dorumaa and Arrakan. The Behemoth from the World Below and the Sith Behemoths were creations of Sith alchemy, as were several incarnations of the leviathan. Star Wars knows several of these creatures. The behemoth and the leviathan are mentioned in the Book of Job and have become the metaphors for any large monster or sea creature, respectively. While the best known creatures are probably from Greek mythology, the most prominently referenced specimens have their origin in the Old Testament.
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Earth’s history is full of mythological creatures and fabled monsters, some of which have found their way to the Star Wars universe, either in form or in name. Mythological creatures come in any shape and size, their appearance only limited by the boundaries of the human imagination.