le calamar geant

chez les scandinaves le Kraken
 y est lié une notion d aneantissement la profondeur des abymes marins y rejoint
l inconnu des abimes celestes

Below the thunders of the upper deep ;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth : faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides ; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height ;
And far away into the sickly light,
..........
A Tennysson