Godzilla in Genesis

So i was having a chat with a friend about the possible implications of what would happen immediately after the events of the first movie. With the sequel a decent distance away, we won't know for sure until about 4 years from now; so we fancied some speculation. How would the world react to finding out giant creatures exist, there was a government coverup, and 3 of said creatures just had a grudge match that caused mass damage to two major cities (and individually 2 of said creatures also caused large damage to 2 other cities) before one killed the others and left for the sea. How would the world see Godzilla? Obviously some people thought to give him some approval, judging from the applauding crowds in the stadium and the title "Savior of Our City?". But what about others? Would some blame him for the devastation and lobby for the military to hunt him down? How would the biological community react to a plasma spewing reptile that threw Square-Cube Law (in regards to animal size) out the window?

Then I remembered something odd when thinking of Godzilla's description. Some people would try and classify him as some animal group (a subject on some other threads here). While we can tell Godzilla is indeed a flesh and blood animal, I recalled the "A God" line. Then I got thinking of mythology and remembered I had read something matching Godzilla's description before. In the Book of Genesis found in the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament, there is a story about God or an angel describing various animals found on the supposed Post-Flood world. One of which is a sea monster called Livyatan, or Leviathan in modern English.

Leviathan is described in Job 41:1-34 with lines like
[Keep in mind different translations may have different wording, but base implications should be fairly close]

"Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering."
-Leviathan is basically unstoppable by human methods

"His body has rows of shields tightly sealed together."
"His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone"
-Leviathan is covered in thick scales and is nigh-indestructable

"From his maw collect burning firebrands; sparks of fire shoot out."
-Leviathan can breath fire after some sort of charge up

"The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood." [Cropped similar lines for repetition]
-Human weapons are basically useless against him

"Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature without fear."
-Leviathan is an alpha level apex predator


Some other bits of info we get about Leviathan in other books describe 'fins' or 'spines' on its back and that it came come on land from time to time. It's unstoppable power is described so much Leviathan is treated almost like less of a normal animal and more of a force of nature. While the real-life description of leviathan might be a fantastical description of a large crocodile or whale, by sheer coincidence it does closely resemble Godzilla. Heck, considering the comic showed Godzilla had been alive and roaming for thousands of years, one possibility in the Legendary'verse is that he is the inspiration for Leviathan.

It be possible theologians or other religious figures of the Abrahamic faiths in the Legendary'verse might make a similar conclusion? This itself could have some implications.

If they conclude Godzilla and Leviathan are one and the same, some might see it as proof of their faith. After all leviathan is explicitly stated to be a flesh and blood animal, so there wouldn't be any perceived spiritual elements to him for more secular minds to disprove. This may result in religion getting a boost despite some groups effort's to give a scientific explanation.

Some may see it as proof of the end-times approaching, as whenever Leviathan shows up it usually is a sign of worse things to come. More so some Hebrew traditions speak about a climatic battle between Leviathan and a rival, terrestrial monster called Behemoth to occur and cause mass devastation before their messiah appears. Some Christian sources identify Leviathan as the sea dragon that appears in Revelation's Apocalypse, also implying the end is close. This might inflame calls for the creature's destruction.


I am not trying to talk about the good or the bad of faith here, this isn't the place for that. Nor am I trying to imply Toho based Gojira off Genesis. I'm just curious what you all think might be the implications of several groups seeing something rising up out of San Fransisco bay that they believe their holy book has been talking about for almost 1800 years or more.