body-of-cosmic-immeasurable-size
morphological
Figures bearing this motif (13)
Bahamut · salience 0.95
“Bahamut's sheer size and power are beyond human comprehension, with its body stretching to lengths that dwarf entire continents.”
Bakunawa · salience 0.9
“This behemoth of the deep is said to be so vast that it can encircle the entire world, its serpentine body stretching across oceans and seas.”
Hadhayosh · salience 0.9
“This enormous creature is said to be of such immense size that it could easily dwarf mountains”
Jörmungandr · salience 0.9
“This immense serpent is said to be so large that it encircles the entire world, Midgard, grasping its own tail in its mouth.”
Labbu · salience 0.9
“Its massive body is said to stretch for leagues, capable of encircling entire islands in its coils.”
Sesha · salience 0.9
“He is described with a thousand heads, and his great scene is the interval between creations — during the night of Brahma, when the cosmos is withdrawn, the serpent coils his vastness on the primordial waters so that Vishnu may sleep upon him, shaded by his raised hoods, until the god wakes at dawn to make the world again.”
Sköll · salience 0.85
“His size is beyond comprehension, able to traverse the vast expanse of the sky in a single day.”
Rahab · salience 0.7
“The figure is consistently on the losing side, and consistently enormous. [Generated Content]: Read as a personality, Rahab comes across as raw oppositional force with very little interiority attached to it — a being whose whole character is the refusal to be ordered.”
Kur · salience 0.6
“a great serpent or dragon-like cosmic force rather than a creature of fixed anatomy”
Ziz
“The Ziz's presence in the sky is akin to a living, breathing mountain range”
Aido Hwedo
“In several tellings Aido Hwedo existed even before the creator, sometimes named Mawu or the paired deity Mawu-Lisa, and served as a vehicle carrying the creator through the cosmos while the world was being shaped.”
Kundrav
“Accounts agree on his defining trait of sheer size, picturing a dragon-like body so immense that its upper reaches touched the sky while its lower body remained submerged in the depths of the ocean below.”