Leviathan

Origin

The etymological origin is the decisive origin canon of 'the coiling one' derived from the Hebrew 'lawah' meaning 'to twist, coil', and the iconographic origin is the decisive origin canon of Baal (Baal) slaying the 7-headed sea chaos monster Lotan (Lotan, ltn) in the Baal Cycle (Baal Cycle) KTU 1.5 of Ugarit (Ugarit, present-day Ras Shamra in Syria) of c. 13th century BCE. The decisive textual canon is the decisive canon of God's words to Job in Job (Job) 41:1-34 (40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew text) of c. 6th-4th century BCE — 'Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?' 'His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal' 'By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning' 'Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out' 'When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid' — and the decisive canon of the 'end of days' in Isaiah (Isaiah) 27:1 — 'In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea'. The decisive canon of Psalm 74:14 — 'Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces' — and 104:26 — 'There is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein' — and the decisive canon in the Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra (Bava Batra) 74b-75a of the 4th-6th century in which Leviathan (sea) and Behemoth (land) fight in the Messianic era and become the feast food of the righteous.

Features

• Giant sea serpent or crocodile-like scaled monster
• 7 heads (Ugaritic Lotan prototype) or crooked serpent
• Fire from mouth, smoke from nose (Job 41:19-20)
• Scales harder than shields — all human weapons are like straw to him
• The sea boils where he passes
• Archduke of 'Envy (Envy)' among the Seven Deadly Sins — paired with Behemoth (land)

Stories

The Lotan (Lotan) of the Baal Cycle of Ugarit of c. 13th century BCE is the decisive origin, and the decisive textual canon is Job 41:1-34, Isaiah 27:1, Psalm 74:14 and 104:26 of c. 6th-4th century BCE, and the Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74b-75a of the 4th-6th century. The decisive canon called upon as a metaphor for uncontrollable natural force and envy, and the decisive political-philosophical canon in which the political philosophy work Leviathan (Leviathan) of 1651 by the English Thomas Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679) used him as a metaphor for the absolute state and influenced the history of political thought. The decisive canon as the embodiment of great evil in eschatology, and the decisive canon of the 'Seven Princes of Hell' by Peter Binsfeld (Peter Binsfeld) of 1589 — in which Leviathan is assigned as the prince of 'Envy (Invidia, Envy)'. The decisive canon of the giant sea monster Leviathan in Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost) Book 1 lines 200-208 of John Milton (John Milton) of 1667, and the decisive art canon of the Leviathan iconography in the Dictionnaire Infernal (Dictionnaire Infernal) of 1818 by Collin de Plancy (Collin de Plancy). The decisive 21st-century canon is the decisive fantasy RPG canon of Leviathan in the 1977 USA TSR Monster Manual (Monster Manual), the decisive canon of the Russian film Leviathan (Leviathan) (directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev) first screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2014, the Skin Game (Skin Game) by Jim Butcher published in the USA in June 2014, and the TV series Lucifer (Lucifer) by USA Fox and Netflix from 2017 to 2021 — the 21st-century decisive global video canon.

Weakness

Leviathan's weaknesses are: (1) God's hand — the decisive canonical weakness — the decisive canon of the c. 6th-4th century BCE Job 41 — the invincible sea monster that only God could subdue, with all human weapons being like straw to him; (2) the Messianic era of the eschaton — the decisive canonical weakness — the decisive canon of Isaiah 27:1 — 'In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent'; (3) combat with Behemoth — the decisive canon of the 4th-6th century Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74b-75a — in the Messianic era he fights Behemoth and is eventually slaughtered by God to become the feast food of the righteous; (4) Baal's slaying — the decisive origin canon of c. 13th century BCE Ugaritic Baal Cycle KTU 1.5 — Baal slaying the 7-headed Lotan; (5) Psalm's breaking — the decisive canon of Psalm 74:14 — 'Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces'; (6) binding of the sea — the decisive canon of being trapped in the sea; (7) binding of the sacred domain — the decisive canon; (8) binding of the envy of the Seven Deadly Sins — the decisive canon. The decisive canonical finale is the decisive mythological canon of the 4th-6th century Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74b-75a — in the Messianic era, Leviathan (sea) and Behemoth (land) fight and are slaughtered by God to become the eschatological feast food of the righteous.

Cultural Significance

Leviathan is not merely a sea-monster icon but the canonical iconographic figure of the decisive Judeo-Christian canon, traversing the c. 13th century BCE Ugaritic Baal Cycle KTU 1.5 Lotan, the c. 6th-4th century BCE Job 41:1-34, Isaiah 27:1, Psalm 74:14 and 104:26, the 4th-6th century Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74b-75a, the 1589 Peter Binsfeld 'Seven Princes of Hell', the 1651 Thomas Hobbes Leviathan, the 1667 John Milton Paradise Lost Book 1 lines 200-208, the 1818 Collin de Plancy Dictionnaire Infernal, the 1977 TSR D&D Monster Manual, and the 2014 film Leviathan. The etymological origin is the decisive canon of 'the coiling one' derived from the Hebrew 'lawah' meaning 'to twist, coil', and the iconographic origin settled as the decisive canon in Baal (Baal) slaying the 7-headed sea chaos monster Lotan (Lotan, ltn) in the Baal Cycle (Baal Cycle) KTU 1.5 of Ugarit (Ugarit, present-day Ras Shamra in Syria) of c. 13th century BCE. The decisive mythological canon is the decisive canon of the invincible sea monster that only God could subdue in Job (Job) 41:1-34 (40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew text) of c. 6th-4th century BCE — with scales harder than shields, fire from mouth, and smoke from nose — and the decisive canon in the Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra (Bava Batra) 74b-75a of the 4th-6th century in which Leviathan (sea) and Behemoth (land) fight in the Messianic era and become the feast food of the righteous. The decisive political-philosophical canon is the decisive canon of the political philosophy work Leviathan (Leviathan) of 1651 by the English Thomas Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679) using him as a metaphor for the absolute state, and the decisive 17th-century English-literary canon of the giant sea monster Leviathan in Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost) Book 1 lines 200-208 of the English John Milton (John Milton, 1608-1674) of 1667. The decisive 21st-century canon is the decisive fantasy RPG canon of Leviathan in the 1977 USA TSR Monster Manual (Monster Manual), the decisive canon of the Russian film Leviathan (Leviathan) (directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Andrey Zvyagintsev), winner of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay, 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nominee) first screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2014, and the mention of Leviathan in the TV series Lucifer (Lucifer) (Seasons 1-6) by USA Fox (Fox) and Netflix from 2017 to 2021 — the 21st-century decisive global video canon.

In Popular Culture

Ugaritic Baal Cycle KTU 1.5 Lotan (Lotan, ltn) (c. 13th century BCE) — decisive origin canonJob 41:1-34 (Hebrew text 40:25-41:26) (c. 6th-4th century BCE) — decisive origin canonIsaiah 27:1 end-of-days Leviathan (c. 8th-6th century BCE) — decisive canonPsalm 74:14 and 104:26 (c. 6th-4th century BCE) — decisive canon1 Enoch 60:7-9 and 2 Baruch 29:4 (c. 2nd century BCE) — decisive apocryphal canonBabylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74b-75a (4th-6th century) — decisive Jewish canonPeter Binsfeld 'Seven Princes of Hell' Leviathan=Envy (1589) — decisive grimoire canonThomas Hobbes Leviathan (1651) — decisive political-philosophical canonJohn Milton Paradise Lost Book 1 lines 200-208 (1667) — decisive 17th-century English-literary canonCollin de Plancy Dictionnaire Infernal Leviathan iconography (1818) — decisive art canonFilm Leviathan directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (2014) — 21st-century decisive film canon