Indus worm Indus worm The skōlex (Indus Worm or the horrible Indian worm), in ancient Greek writings, was a supposed giant, white, carnivorous worm with a large pair of teeth that lived in the Indus River. Gustav Oppert in the 19th century reasoned that "skōlex" referred to a like-sounding word in the Indian language, and was convinced the word was "culukī" () for "fish" or "porpoise". In his opinion, the word could refer even to a "crocodile" by extension. Scholar Erik Seldeslachts, in a 1998 paper, has suggested parallel with "kṛmiḥ" () which has the duel meaning of "worm" and a name
The Worm Ouroboros although commenting that "Eddison sometimes achieves the splendid prose and gorgeous artifice appropriate to his sagas." Karl Edward Wagner was influenced by "The Worm Ouroboros" as a teenager. Michael Swanwick quotes from "Ouroboros" in "The Dragons of Babel". In 1983, E. F. Bleiler praised "The Worm Ouroboros" as "still the finest heroic fantasy." American herpetologist Emmett Reid Dunn named a species of South American lizard "Morunasaurus groi", after the character Lord Gro. The Worm Ouroboros The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war