In near eastern mythology, Leviathan is both a place and a being; known as the water spirit who started the original rebellion with Belial.  According to Hebraic esotericism, Leviathan represents cyclic time as the great serpent of the waters of the galaxy.  Leviathan is used as an allegory for Satan; a dragon or gliding serpent.  Dragons are a kind of serpent in antediluvian history, legend, and related allegories.  This personality is characterized in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas as a dragon who lives beyond “the waters of the abyss,” that he is “king of the worms of the earth, whose tail lies in his mouth (representing the Ouroboros).”  He’s also associated with the various forces in the heavens manifested by electricity in lightning or thunderbolts; however, the Biblical book of Job describes Leviathan as a sea monster, one who churns the sea like a cauldron (Job 41:31).  Psalm 74 illustrates God destroying the sea monster, Leviathan, while Isaiah 27 describes this being as the fast-moving, squirming serpent; the sea monster of whom the Lord will kill (future).  The Bible also refers to Leviathan as Rahab (the proud one) in Psalm 89:7, 9-10.  Rahab is also destroyed in Job 26 (future).  Leviathan’s mouth is connected to the opening to hell as his stomach could be compared to as hell itself in allegory (see the fourth bullet point below).  Could this creature be the one who swallows Jonah, to which he stays in for three days and three nights; just as Jesus compares His future stay in hell, from which He resurrects to life as the sign of the prophet Jonah? 

AKA’s and Intercultural Connections:

• The Lying Serpent
• Known to the Greeks as Hydra: a creature more than 900 miles long, with 7 heads and 300 eyes
• Known as Tiamat in Mesopotamia, the monster of the sea
• The primordial god whose name translates as “abyss,” “void,” or “bottomless pit.” 
• Known as Lotan, the seven headed dragon of the Ugaritic Texts