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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
No, there is only one Kraken in myth afaik.
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Disagree. There isn't really much myth to the kraken at all. While obviously sea monster sightings have existed since prerecorded history, the kraken
myth has it first named as such in the 1700s but described as a massive many-horned fish with the first description popularizing it as a giant octopus attributed to 1753.
But by the mid 1700s, the world was less believing in singular monsters like say Behomoth, Leviathian, Typhon or Jörmungandr and instead would have believed it to be a species if it existed.
Which is why it shows up in Carl Linnaeus' first edition of Systema Naturae and you can find many examples of the plural "krakens" or the singular "a kraken" from the 1700s.
The idea that it is a singular proper name monster seems to be more of a new myth since it replaced Cetus in the 80s Clash of the Titans and then further propagated by things like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. It also doesn't help that the improper translation of the plural from Norwegian has made Kraken and Krakens both correct plural forms so even the Seattle Kraken could be referring to plural kraken.
But none of this explains why it's a singular Mammoth.