Dream Galaxy

Religious narrative · Water

Four great beasts from the sea

Babylon · narrative set c. 6th c. BCE

I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

Original text — The Bible, King James Version, Various

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Source
The Bible, King James Version — Various, 1611. Daniel 7:2–3
Rights
Public domain (author died 100+ years ago)
Record type
Religious narrative
Place
Babylon · Hebrew Bible, Babylonian
Date
narrative set c. 6th c. BCE
Uncertainty
High — Religious narrative; not a historical dream report.
Imagery
Sea · Storm · Animals · Sky
Feelings
Awe · Fear

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Early dream researchers often linked water imagery to bodily sensation and mood; later psychoanalytic writers read deep water as a figure for what lies below awareness. Modern researchers treat such readings as interpretive traditions rather than findings.

cf. Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (1911)

Mythological

Many cosmologies begin with primordial waters — the deep of Genesis, the Babylonian Apsu, the cosmic ocean of Hindu myth — so water often stands for origins, boundaries and crossings between worlds.

Comparative mythology

Chinese traditions

In Chinese poetry water carries time and loss — “all things flow east like water” (Li Bai) — while Daoist texts praise water as soft yet enduring.

Li Bai; Daodejing ch. 8

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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