Based on an ancient Japanese fable known as Temple of the Ocean King. Between Land & Sea depicts the elusive giant oarfish racing along torrents of water, in what will be their final plight to warn humanity of impending disaster.
Measuring over fifteen metres in length, the giant oarfish is the world’s longest bony fish. Given their nearly unfathomable size, it isn’t too far fetched to wonder whether pirates and sailors of times gone by, may have mistook sickly giant oarfish that had come to the surface for the fearsome sea serpents of legends.
The fable tells of the Ocean King sending his sea monster messengers to earthly shores, in a final sacrifice and omen of impending natural disaster. For centuries giant oarfish appearing before natural disasters has been a well-documented occurrence. In the week before the 2011 Fukushima tsunami, there were twenty two confirmed sightings of beached giant oarfish found throughout the islands of Japan.
Measuring over fifteen metres in length, the giant oarfish is the world’s longest bony fish. Given their nearly unfathomable size, it isn’t too far fetched to wonder whether pirates and sailors of times gone by, may have mistook sickly giant oarfish that had come to the surface for the fearsome sea serpents of legends.
The fable tells of the Ocean King sending his sea monster messengers to earthly shores, in a final sacrifice and omen of impending natural disaster. For centuries giant oarfish appearing before natural disasters has been a well-documented occurrence. In the week before the 2011 Fukushima tsunami, there were twenty two confirmed sightings of beached giant oarfish found throughout the islands of Japan.
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