An immense sea creature with a long serpentine body coiled in rings. The coils allow it to twist through the water like a corkscrew, twisting downward next to a ship creates a whirlpool that sucks the ship beneath the surface where it is devoured whole.

A leviathan has a body similar to a serpent but with fins. Its head is shaped like a whale and it has pointed teeth that can be seen even when the mouth is closed.

Like dragons, leviathans have hot breath and at times emit sparks or fire from their mouths. Their skin appears smooth like a whale, but is actually made up of thousands of tiny diamond hard scales fitted tightly together forming an impenetrable armor. They are normally black or brown except for the breeding males which are bright red.

It's the largest animal ever known on land or sea, there is no defense against it and it has no natural or unnatural enemies apart from the stickleback fish. This small fish is able to smother the leviathan by swimming up its nose and can be enticed to do so with sorcery.

It's prophesied that one day God will send angels to kill the leviathan but the angels will flee in fear. Then at God's command the behemoth and the leviathan will slay each other and God will serve certain humans a feast consisting of their flesh along with the flesh of the ziz.

The leviathan represents the forces of chaos, is large enough to encircle the entire earth, is the demon of envy, may occasionally appear to have seven heads, and is the Grand Admiral of Hell. Today the term leviathan can be correctly used to refer to any large creature or object.

Also known as King of the Sea, Ruler of the Sea, and King of the Fishes.

See Also: Creatures by Type: Demons, Dragons, Sea Monsters, Serpents