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In art depicting Jonah, the ketos is a short sea-serpent, shorter than a sea-serpent, longer than Perseus’ cetus with beast torso with tail.
Jonah’s prayer in the ketos, in “Esoteric Christian Prayers” https://egodeaththeory.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/esoteric-christian-prayers/
Jonah ketos
Perseus ketos
Perseus cetus
ketos
sea serpent
Some images show one or multiple of the following:
o Jonas’ torso coming forth from the serpent’s mouth, a quite common theme in mythic art – or the comedic reverse of that art mytheme: Jonas’ legs protruding from the serpent’s mouth. The book of Jonah has
o sea-serpent with looped tail
o ivy-shaped vinous gourd plant that gives shade to Jonah on land
o mushroom tree (as a stylized image) & thus a mushroom cap in serpent’s mouth: https://www.flickr.com/photos/renzodionigi/3426153383
“Ketos, Sea Monster of Divine Retribution — Today’s Monster Monday is the ketos, an ancient sea monster from Greek and Biblical mythology. This is the monster that Poseidon sent to eat Andromeda, and that Perseus petrified with Medusa’s severed head. The ketos is also frequently shown as the sea monster that swallowed Jonah in late classical and medieval depictions of the story. In both cases, it is a monster sent by a deity to punish the impious by eating someone. [Painting: Andromeda liberated by Perseus, at Wikimedia]
“Herakles, appropriating the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, apparently also rescued a princess from a ketos, doing so in true herculean fashion by leaping into its mouth and slaying it from within. In 58 BC, the Romans put the bones of what they believed to be the ketos that Perseus slew on display during gladiatorial games.”
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