sea serpent
The Ox-Headed Serpent of the Drowned Coast
Along Galicia's Costa da Morte, fishermen once spoke of the Urco, a vast sea serpent with the head of an ox, said to rise before wrecks and storms. The entry follows the beast through the memories of a coastline that has buried more sailors than it has ever given back.
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Aug 28, 2026
Marginalia of the Deep
A journal entry tracing the sea serpent from Jörmungandr's coils around Midgard to the sightings and chart-drawings of Norwegian sailors and the naturalists who took their word seriously.
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Aug 23, 2026
Where the Ink Runs Out
A look at terra incognita, the old cartographer's term for the unmapped edge of the world, and the dragons, monsters and blank spaces that filled it.
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The Serpent at the Chart's Edge
A journal account of Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent of Norse myth, whose coils were said to ring the inhabited world and whose shadow lingers at the margins of old sea-charts.
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Jul 30, 2026
The Serpent That Eats the Moon
In the central and southern Philippines, a great sea serpent is still said to rise and swallow the moon, and the old defence against it — drums, gongs, pots beaten in the dark — has not entirely gone quiet.
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