The Kraken

One of the ornaments I posted yesterday was a strange octopus. It was meant to be used in a story that I wrote as a test scenario to an email-based roleplaying game, but I never really got to finish it. Contrary to most of the other ornament I have made this one is made in Inkscape and is therefore a SVG-file that can be scaled to any size.

If you go to my Diaspora profile you can download the original.

Find it here

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The Octopus in the center is the Kraken a strange creature living in the bottom of the sea as it is envisioned by Alfred, Lord Tennyson the splendid Victorian poet.

Here is the poem :)

The Kraken

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,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

There is little doubt that it was the inspiration for H.P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu.

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