Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

Only the lochs with pinewoods on their shores have monster legends ; Loch Lomond — with no pinewoods — does not.

Jan van Mill has described as a ' three headed monster ' — the three heads being a smiling and friendly head ( the behaviour under the assumption of the continuum hypothesis ), the ugly head of independence which constantly tries to confuse you ( determining what behaviour is possible in different models of set theory ), and the third head is the smallest of all ( what you can prove about it in ZFC ).< ref > It has relatively recently been observed that this characterisation isn't quite right-there is in fact a fourth head of, in which forcing axioms and Ramsey type axioms give properties of almost diametrically opposed to those under the continuum hypothesis, giving very few maps from indeed.

The latest installment was what he called a "' monster clambake ,' with everything thrown in — Frankenstein, Dracula, a hunchback and a ' man-beast ' that howled in the night.

A myth reported as " Egyptian " in Gaius Julius Hyginus ' Poetic Astronomy that would seem to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn says that when Aegipan — that is Pan in his goat-god aspect — was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile ; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish.

These were based in versions of real-life cities, and some were based on real events such as the 1991 Oakland firestorm, the 1989 Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, South Carolina, or dealing with the 1970s economic recession in Flint, Michigan — but also included more fanciful ones such as a " monster " destroying Hollywood in 2001.

The monster movies of the 1950s — like Godzilla ( 1954 )— served as stand-ins for fears of nuclear war, communism and views on the cold war.

The player controlled one character who had an absolute minimum of visual representation — the closest to a character image to be found was when one encountered a " doppelganger " monster.

The pair soon recruits two former members of the Heavenly Host who were cast out and turned from angels to " monsters ", as a result of Monkey's transgressions: Sandy, the water monster and ex-cannibal, expelled from Heaven after his interference caused Heaven's Jade Emperor's precious jade cup to be broken, and Pigsy, a pig monster consumed with lust and gluttony, who was expelled from Heaven after harassing the Star Princess Vega — the Jade Emperor's mistress — for a kiss.

While the Greek gods could use transformation punitively — as for Arachne, turned to a spider for her pride in her weaving, and Medusa, turned to a monster for having sexual intercourse with Poseidon in Athena's temple — even more frequently, the tales using it are of amorous adventure.

Tim and Constantine end up journeying to Hell — specifically Constantine's own Hell, described as much more dangerous than the fluffy monster Hell that Tim visited in the " Reckonings " storyline — where the younger magician manages to trick the demon into returning the box.

While defeating the shaken Kasady after his panic causes him to lose control of the symbiote, Batman reflects that many serial killers kill so many to try to escape death themselves by " appeasing " the Grim Reaper with their own sacrifices, and that Carnage — far from being a monster or even a " common street punk "— is little more than an overgrown " little boy ", albeit with lethal powers.

" Out of the ten monsters used in the survey — which included vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Michael Myers, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, and the Alien — Jason scored the highest in all the categories involving killing variables.

Along with Ickis, he is one of the few monsters who can hear the Pool of Elders — the source of monster existence that is made of the very substance of fears.

Vasilia claims that her father is a monster, and would do anything necessary to advance his theories of a science that can predict the future — psychohistory.

Coverage of American cartoonists, Japanese manga, monster trucks, outsider artists, Twin Peaks, and other non-mainstream cultural phenomena distinguished the magazine's dynamic early years.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster.

The victorious Theseus is represented as seated on the lifeless body of the monster.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel.

In it he, his wife Wealhþeow, and his warriors spend their time singing and celebrating, until Grendel, a troll-like monster who is pained by the noise, attacks the hall and kills and devours many of Hroðgar's warriors while they sleep.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

A monster will also become angry if either player collects a skull ( the only negative item in the game ), and the monster is hit by the resulting comet crossing the screen.

Capricornus is also sometimes identified as Pan, the god with a goat's head, who saved himself from the monster Typhon by giving himself a fish's tail and diving into a river.

It is thought of variously as a malevolent cannibalistic spirit that could possess humans or a monster that humans could physically transform into.

When she is unsuccessful, she takes revenge on her rival by turning Scylla into a monster ( lines 1-74 ).

In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster.

Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ' the whale ' today.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers, but Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor, condemned him for behaving like a " proud pharaoh ", and the Nestorian bishops at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a " monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

* Taz, a monster truck driven by Adam Anderson, based on the Looney Tunes character.

The monster hit " Little Darling " was driven by the clave beat and Chuck Berry's " Havana Moon " was a great success.

The rock has driven Nahum and Letitia insane and, in the film's climax, it transforms Nahum into a glowing monster.

A research group at the Umeå University, Sweden in August 2006 showed that normal stochastic wind driven waves can suddenly give rise to monster waves.

* Maximum Destruction, a monster truck driven by Tom Meents that was originally named for Bill Goldberg

Here, Laura and Kimberly meet Parker Jackson, a CETI researcher and fellow crash survivor who drives out the monster, only to be driven out himself by a distrusting Kimberly.

He lost the fight until he is driven mad by his mother's death at the hands of the monster, killing the monster with the Royal Underground Sword.

The tiles were given a metallic sheen to simulate the varying scales of the monster, with the color grading from green on the right side, where the head begins, to deep blue and violet in the center, to red and pink on the left side of the building.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.

The first of these Jagdpanzers was the Ferdinand ( later renamed the Elefant ), a 70-ton monster built from the already-built quantity of ninety-one Porsche VK4501

* The short story " There Are More Things " by Jorge Luis Borges from The Book of Sand refers to an amphisbaena and concerns a similar, though mostly undescribed, monster.

To remedy the lack of movement from the octopus prop, whenever someone was killed by the monster in the film, they simply flailed around in the shallow water while holding the tentacles to imitate movement.

A " Brazilian jungle monster " from Generator Rex turns out to be a chupacabra.

Columba then saves a swimmer from the monster with the sign of the Cross and the imprecation, " Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man ; go back with all speed.

However, when John of Antioch and the other pro-Nestorius bishops finally reached Ephesus, they assembled their own Council, condemned Cyril for heresy, deposed him from his see, and labelled him as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

Some scholars have identified the biblical creature Leviathan as a monster from Canaanite mythology.

In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.

It comes from Ancient Greek (), meaning " whale " or " any huge fish or sea monster ".

Tako immediately sends two men, Sakurai and Kinsaburo, to find and bring back the monster from Faro.

This was the first " monster vs monster " film from this rebooted series.

It featured a new monster called Biollante, with producer Tomoyuki Tanaka desiring new monster opponents for Godzilla rather than using characters from the original films.

Heracles happened to arrive ( along with Telamon and Oicles ) and agreed to kill the monster if Laomedon would give him the horses received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus ' kidnapping Ganymede.

* Kirin, an Elder Dragon-type monster from the video game Monster Hunter

He believed his power to protect the monster from the hunters was " very doubtful ".

When the dummy monster broke loose from the Pisces during filming and sank to the bottom of the loch, Vickers executives capitalised on the loss and ' monster fever ' by allowing the sub to do a bit of exploring.