The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.

There was also a temple dedicated to Luna Noctiluca (" Luna that shines by night ") on the Palatine Hill.

Examples of these beach organisms in the southeast US include plants like sea oats, sea rocket, beach elder, beach morning glory ( Ipomoea pes-caprae ), and beach peanut, and animals such as mole crabs ( Hippoidea ), coquina clams ( Donax ), ghost crabs, and white beach tiger beetles.

These can have any number of descriptive names such as " deep blue sea ", " blue moon ", " green ghost ", " brass bottle ".

Bordered on three sides by ridges but open to the south, the ghost town is at above sea level.

In the Edwardian era, Algernon Blackwood ( who combined the ghost story with nature mysticism ), Oliver Onions ( whose ghost stories drew on psychological horror ) and William Hope Hodgson ( whose ghost tales also contained elements of the sea story and science fiction ) helped move the ghost story in new directions.

* Fantastic Beasts — guardian ape, basilisk, giant vampire bat, centaur, chimera ( mythology ), cockatrice, giant crab, deadly ooze, various demons and devils, dragons, elementals, giant frog, gargoyle, golems, gorgon, griffin, harpy, hippocampus, hippogriff, homunculus, hydra, giant insects, jackalope, kraken, giant lizard, lycanthropes, manticore, minotaur, pegasus, Phoenix, rakshasa, giant rat, roc, salamander, satyr, sea serpent, simurgh, siren, fantastic snakes, sphinx, tree man, undead ( ghost, ghoul, mummy, animated skeleton, vampire, and zombie ), unicorn, giant wolf, and giant worm.

One month later, Paifu, Jose and everyone else from the village meet Maruyama out at sea with a present for him, a ghost ship that actually came with ghosts.

Fishing nets left or lost in the ocean by fishermen – ghost nets – can entangle fish, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, dugongs, crocodiles, seabirds, crabs, and other creatures.

She soon finds herself in the constant company and care of the ghost Ken, who claims that he is her former classmate who died when he was 13 in a typhoon out at sea.

Known as ghost nets, these entangle fish, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, dugongs, crocodiles, seabirds, crabs, and other creatures, restricting movement, causing starvation, laceration and infection, and, in those that need to return to the surface to breathe, suffocation.

Raederle, the heir of sea and fire referred to in the title, was promised by her father to the man who won a riddle game with a ghost.

The Enûma Eliš, a text written between the 18th and 16th centuries BC, describes five personified cosmic elements: the sea, earth, sky, fire, and wind.

He described how fire gave rise to the other elements as the: " upward-downward path ", (), a " hidden harmony " or series of transformations he called the " turnings of fire ", (), first into sea, and half that sea into earth, and half that earth into rarefied air.

Local tradition has it that his wife would camp on the nearby Strawberry Island ( which was visible from the open sea ) and signal him with a fire on the island's summit to alert him to whether or not it was safe to bring his illegal cargo ashore.

Although the term " Greek fire " has been general in English and most other languages since the Crusades, in the original Byzantine sources it is called by a variety of names, such as " sea fire " (), " Roman fire " (), " war fire " (), " liquid fire " (), or " manufactured fire " ().

While Greek fire remained a potent weapon, its limitations were significant when compared to more traditional forms of artillery: in its siphon-deployed version, it had a limited range, and it could be used safely only in a calm sea and with favourable wind conditions.

A way is a series of transformations: the, " turnings of fire ," first into sea, then half of sea to earth and half to rarefied air.

In recent years, additional attractions have been added to entertain the crowds as they wait for midnight, such as fire poi, a pipe band, street drumming and a firework display after the last fireball is cast into the sea.

But the skalds weren ’ t averse either to arbitrary, purely decorative, use of kennings: “ That is, a ruler will be a distributor of gold even when he is fighting a battle and gold will be called the fire of the sea even when it is in the form of a man ’ s arm-ring on his arm.

Plutarch ( AD 46 – 120 ) wrote that during his visit to Alexandria in 48 BC Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas ' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea.

In this chapter, Njörðr is described by the enthroned figure of High as living in the heavens at Nóatún, but also as ruling over the movement of the winds, having the ability to calm both sea and fire, and that he is to be invoked in seafaring and fishing.

There is, however, only one known account from a native Briton who lived at this time in the mid 5th Century A. D., ( Gildas ), and his description is of a forced takeover: For the fire ... spread from sea to sea, fed by the hands of our foes in the east, and did not cease, until, destroying the neighbouring towns and lands, it reached the other side of the island, and dipped its red and savage tongue in the western ocean.

He writes: " In the same year, in the summer, a vapour like an oven's fire boiled up for days out of the middle of the islands of Thera and Therasia from the depths of the sea, and the whole place burned like fire, little by little thickening and turning to stone, and the air seemed to be a fiery torch.

As a matter of courtesy a warship would fire her guns harmlessly out to sea, to show that she had no hostile intent.

He would later " give birth " to Athena from his head, which would anger Hera enough for her to produce her own son parthenogenetically, Typhaon, the part snake, part dragon sea monster, or in other versions Hephaistos, god of fire and blacksmiths.

The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι-– arkhi-(" chief ") and πέλαγος – pélagos (" sea ") through the Italian arcipelago.

Ægir ( Old Norse " sea ") is a sea giant, god of the ocean and king of the sea creatures in Norse mythology.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

In prose sometimes the term (, " sea of death ") is used, due to the scarcity of aquatic life there.

The Bible also refers to it as (, " the Eastern sea ") and (, " Sea of the Arabah ").

The term mereswine ( that is, " sea pig ") has also historically been used.

When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean sea began to be called Mare Nostrum ( Latin: " Our Sea ") by the Romans.

Desiring to reconquer his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for " the third fruit ", ( or " the third crop ") and then enter Peloponnesus by " a narrow passage by sea ".

Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother, Tyro (" high born Tyro ") the daughter of Salmoneus, and allegedly the sea god Poseidon.

In the Book of Jonah a worm ( in Hebrew tola ' ath, " maggot ") bites the shade-giving plant's root causing it to wither, while in the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh plucks his plant from the floor of the sea which he reached by tying stones to his feet.

* Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred Poems from the Japanese ( New Directions, 1955, ISBN 0-8112-0181-3 ) contains several of Hitomaro's waka, as well as notable translations of 3 naga uta (" In the sea of ivy clothed Iwami ", " The Bay of Tsyunu ", and " When she was still alive ")

The sea services ( i. e., the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard ) also permit the wearing of the " V " device ( Combat " V ") on the Legion of Merit, while the Army and Air Force do not.

Nereus and Proteus ( the " first ") seem to be two manifestations of the god of the sea who was supplanted by Poseidon when Zeus overthrew Cronus.

Scholar Georges Dumézil further cites various tales of havmennesker ( Norwegian " sea people ") who govern over sea weather, wealth, or, in some incidents, give magic boats are likely connected to Njörðr.

Many poetic dictions use repetitive phrases for effect, either a short phrase ( such as Homer's " rosy-fingered dawn " or " the wine-dark sea ") or a longer refrain.

It is considered unlikely that the term " passport " is derived from sea ports, but rather from a medieval document required to pass through the gate (" porte ") of a city wall or to pass through a territory.

The two Chinese characters in the city's name are ' 上 ' (" above ") and ' 海 ' (" sea "), together meaning " Upon-the-Sea ".

* Panchaea, ( In ' Sacred History ' (" Hiera Anagraphê ") of Euhemerus, around 3rd c BC ), described as a rational island paradise located just after the Red sea and around the Arabian Peninsula.

Therefore, these people that migrated to the coast of the Black sea received an identification as the " Goth " ( or the " God ") people after receiving the influence of the Gospel coming out of Jerusalem and Antioch, Syria.

* Machu Picchu ( Quechua: Machu Pikchu, " Old mountain ") a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2, 400 meters ( 7, 875 ft ) above sea level believed to be under construction.

One theory is derivation from the old German word " Mähre " ( ahd, meaning female horse ), where misinterpretation of the German name Meerrettich (" sea radish ") became Mährrettich (" mare radish ").