Twisty Hippokamp

Custom seahorse designed for a housboat. Framed wood relief.

About the Hippocamp

The hippocamp, or hippocampus (named after its resemblance to the seahorse from the Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster") is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology, though the name by which it is recognized is purely Greek. It was also adopted into Etruscan mythology. It has typically been depicted as a horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fish-like hindquarter. 

Because of its resemblance, the hippocampus is also named as a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation.