Su ve Deniz Mitolojisi

Is water life or death? The vast majority will of course say life to this question. Perhaps some of you will change your mind after reading this book. The truth is that water is the main source of life, if there is water there is life, but death is also rampant in some waters. Anxious impulses have always clouded people's minds and even such fears related to water have been called limnophobia in psychology. For this reason, mankind has cultized the waters (lakes, streams, seas) in its environment and has personified them in a mystical sense.
Myths created surreal water monsters, and people were always afraid to encounter them during sea voyages. The fear that each one would bring death turned into beliefs. Certain rituals were organized before and after voyages. In order to protect themselves from them, oculus was drawn on the prows of ships and ship heads were placed. In fact, the idea that if sacrifices were not made to these waters and their monsters, their evil would haunt people was encountered in many myths.
In this work you will read, the water-based gods, creatures and legends mentioned in Aboriginal, African, Chinese, Indian, Hittite, Japanese, Native American, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Norse, Turkish, Greek and Roman myths are presented to you in alphabetical order. Thus, the water gods, creatures and myths told in different societies are collected in a single source, and you are provided with the opportunity to make comparisons and establish similarities. In addition, various sea monsters seen in medieval portolan are also added to the study, and it is tried to be explained how scary places the seas and waters are.