Leviathan in popular culture is still guarding the entrance to Atlantis, but didn't attack Milo's friends upon their return since, thanks to their crystals, it knew they were friends. In the "Hellraiser" series by Clive Barker, the deity that rules Hell is named Leviathan. However, this being takes the form of a gigantic lozenge, rotating in the air above its realm, and pertains in no other way to a sea monster. A season one episode of "Martin Mystery" had Martin and his friends dealing with a Leviathan that was guarding undersea treasure. In the television series "Supernatural", the Leviathans are an ancient race of
Leviathan Leviathan may be a name for the crocodile, and in a footnote to Job 40:15, that Behemoth may be a name for the hippopotamus. The Church Father Origen accused a gnostic sect of venerating the biblical serpent of the Garden of Eden. Therefore, he calls them Ophites, naming after the serpent they are supposed to worship. In this belief system, the Leviathan appears as an Ouroboros, separating the divine realm from humanity by enveloping or permeating the material world. We do not know whether or not the Ophites actually identified the serpent on the Garden of Eden with the Leviathan.