Mythical water creature. 16th-century artwork of a mythical 'hoga' water creature, described in a chapter on Mexico and its islands. Examples of anima

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Mythical water creature. 16th-century artwork of a mythical 'hoga' water creature, described in a chapter on Mexico and its islands. Examples of animals that generated reports of monstrous sea creatures are manatees, sea snakes, oarfish, and whales. Artwork from 'Cosmographie universelle' (1575) by the French explorer and writer Andre Thevet (1516-1590). This book described the history and geography of the lands in which Thevet had travelled. The two volumes and four tomes contain over 1000 pages divided into 23 books. This woodcut is from chapter XVI of book XXII.

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