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China: Cultural History

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China: Cultural History
19.99 €
The whale, the largest animal on our planet, has fascinated people since time immemorial. Since seeing a live whale is a rare pleasure, in ancient times only sailors brought news of it to land. Largely due to these stories, the whale became a semi-mythical creature, and its image - the subject of numerous fantasies and speculations.

For a long time, the whale was imagined as a formidable beast, a biblical monster in the service of the forces of evil. Medieval bestiaries depicted the terrible inhabitant of the deep as a servant of the devil. Authors of the Modern Age were hardly more lenient, emphasizing the cruelty of the whale: it was a man-eater and the main enemy of the sailor, like Moby Dick, the ferocious white sperm whale from Melville's novel.

But over time, the image of the whale changed: the monster of the deep became a touching, pitiable creature, unjustly becoming a victim of greed and violence. Today, the whale is a friendly hero in hundreds of children's books, peacefully swimming through the oceans and sometimes even the skies.
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