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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPardon me... what does "kraken" mean?
"Release the Kraken" ?
What is this????
It must be Qanon thing, I have no idea.
I heard it in a clip with Thomas' wife.
Thanks
Update: So, it is a metaphoric monster, therefore the Q nuts use the term/phrase for various metaphoric monsters they dream up.
It could be lawsuits, it could be.... Is this how they use it?
FarPoint
(12,293 posts)It is from Clash of the Titans movie....When Zues orders Poseidon to release the sea creature, Kracken onto the Greeks Island/ go get the sacrifice, Andromeda.
TheBlackAdder
(28,168 posts).
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MineralMan
(146,262 posts)mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)"release the kraken"?
If you know.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)There were references to that by some of Trump's bogus attorneys after the election. They were going to "release the Kraken" in court, indicating that they had some sort of bombshell information that would change everything. They never managed to do that, of course. The Kraken doesn't exist in any situation. It is a mythical beast.
mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)So, they are using it to mean various "monsters"...
law suits, information mania, etc.
canuckledragger
(1,636 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,604 posts)which was a bit of a mishmash of Greek and Norse mythology. The original kraken was a Norse (Viking, if you will) sea monster.
It is supposed to refer to the releasing of an uncontrollable monster on others for their "sins."
IIRC it was a trump lawyer who threatened to "releast the kraken" as in a flurry of lawsuits about the 2020 election, which turned out to be toothless.
mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)for many situations and various metaphoric monsters?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)as a term of extreme snarkasm.
mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)Hugin
(33,059 posts)Some people may have used the term "Crack Hen".
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)ShazamIam
(2,564 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,863 posts)...the mixing of myths bugged me! In the original Greek myth, it was called the ceti. Hence the term, cetacean.
That it became the Norse kraken was annoying. It had a name!
haele
(12,640 posts)However, in the cheesey remake of "Clash of the Titans", an angry Liam Neeson as Zeus shouts "Release the Kraken!" to cause another boss fight for the hero of the movie to contend with before making it to the climax of the movie.
Disclosure - while I never saw the remake, it was in all the trailers, and has become a meme.
Haele
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I had no idea. I looked it up on imdb, and it doesn't sound sufficiently enticing to break my "no remakes" rule.
haele
(12,640 posts)Colorful sword and sandals romp, with pretty people overacting all over the place.
The remake didn't look as fun or as colorful, so I gave it a pass.
Haele
Earth-shine
(3,956 posts)mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)Emile
(22,505 posts)Ceremony to celebrate the event. My division officer gave a little ceremony speech and this was the first time I heard the word. It's a fabled sea creature is what he told me.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)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.
https://poets.org/poem/kraken
Used in the introduction to "The Kraken Wakes", a sci-fi novel by John Wyndham.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Disaffected
(4,547 posts)i.e. Sidney Powel, Rudy Giuliani, Lynn Woods etc.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Disaffected
(4,547 posts)And, we should add the pillow guy to the list.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)a kennedy
(29,618 posts)mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)nolabear
(41,936 posts)Im not even a hockey fan and I love that logo.
Wounded Bear
(58,604 posts)FreeState
(10,570 posts)ShazamIam
(2,564 posts)in a foreign country, Chinese fake ballots,thousands of personal depositions of remembered voter fraud, etc.
mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)That must be how the Q nuts and RWers are using it.
Thanks
Edim
(300 posts)My brother knew I had released the Kraken on him when I told his girlfriend that he never said what I had just told her that he never said what I just said he never did say. Then I left.
Sneederbunk
(14,278 posts)Hekate
(90,562 posts)Angleae
(4,481 posts)DFW
(54,302 posts)It means "Octopus."
Yes, really!
You're welcome!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I never heard that. Thank you.
DFW
(54,302 posts)I don't know what it is supposed to mean in current slang in other countries, but it's the German word for octopus.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)were legendarily. No surprise it caught on so well. And by the transitive property of "unleashing" of monsters became identified with Sidney Powell and her ilk.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)giant octopuses. No surprise it caught on so well. And by the transitive property of "unleashing" of monstrous creatures became identified with Sidney Powell and her ilk.
AntivaxHunters
(3,234 posts)and it has absolutely nothing to do with Qanon.
"Release the Kraken" is a figure of speech like "release the hounds!"
struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)I kept seeing references to it ... Thanks!
Takket
(21,529 posts)mysteryowl
(7,363 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(969 posts)It has to do with there being two pronunciations of the word "kraken":
The one I heard originally, while quite young, was 'cray-ken' while recently in the above mentioned movies was 'crack-en'.
My hypothesis is that someone in The Former Guys' maladministration referred to a particular notorious lawyer as a 'crack-head', and someone else misunderstood the statement as 'kraken' (with the second pronunciation). Things went downhill from there. A misunderstood statement was conflated with a mythical Sea Monster and a meme was born.
It makes about as much sense as anything else to do with TFG's reign of error, possibly more. Although that is a pretty low bar, admittedly.