SIRENS &: MERMAIDS
ref. # 019 What about mermaids? -'Caribbean Mermaid'
'Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You', also known simply as 'Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide', is the book written by Arthur Spiderwick about an Invisible World.Mermaids occur in mythologies and folklore all over the world. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as those reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been inspired by manatees and similar aquatic mammals. The Greek variation is a creature called the Siren, who lures seamen to crash with their ships against the cliffs by singing otherwordly, beautiful songs."
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ref. # 019a What about mermaids? -'Spud'
An odd advertisement for Spud Cigarettes, America's first menthol cigarette.©: www.cigarettespedia.com
"The Mermaid
A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown,"
poem by William Butler Yeats
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ref. # 019b What about mermaids? -Jinn
"The Jinn (also dJinn or genies) are spiritual creatures in Islam and Arabic folklore. They are mentioned in the Qur'an and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world in dimensions beyond the visible universe of humans. Together, the Jinn, humans and angels make up the three sapient creations of God. The Qur'an mentions that the Jinn are made of a smokeless and "scorching fire", but also physical in nature, being able to interact physically with people and objects and likewise be acted upon. Like human beings, the Jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent and hence have freewill like humans and unlike angels. The Jinn are mentioned frequently in the Qur'an, and the 72nd sura is titled Sũrat al-Jinn."©: cryptidz.wikia.com
tags: #mermaid #jinn
019c What about mermaids? -Cave paintings in the Sahara
The remote Cave of Swimmers is located at Wadi Sura in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Sahara, in southwest Egypt near the Libyan border.
Wadi Sora itself is a sheltered inlet within a promontory of the main plateau. The main painted caves were discovered by the Hungarian explorer LászlO Almásy in October 1933 during the Frobenius expedition. They contain the diminuitive but defined 'swimming figures. www.bradshawfoundation.comlink: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Swimmers
©: Creative Commons the British Museum
tags: #Gilf Kebir #sahara #mermaids
019d What about mermaids? -Rùzena Maturová as the first Rusalka
A Rusalka is a water sprite (an elf or fairy) from Slavic mythology, usually inhabiting a lake or river. Source: Burghauser, Jarmil: Antonin Dvorák, p. 101
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021c Greece -'Ulysses and the sirens'
Ulysses and the Sirens. Detail from an Attic red-figured stamnos, ca. 480-470 BC. From Vulci.
Adolf Furtwängler (drawing); Siren Painter (vase) - digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de©: PD
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