Mermaid mythology

There is something so mystical and dreamy about mermaids. My love for Greek Mythology has reignited lately and today I stumbled on this image on Pinterest. The mermaid goddess Atargatis was known to the Greeks, who called her Derketo. Her transformation and story may have influenced later Greek depictions of the Sirens as fish-tailed When I was at uni I was a mermaid for Halloween, made my own sparkly tail and everything. Wish I took a photo of it with my disposable camera. Didn’t do that…

A collection of sixty-six Old English fairy tales, fables, romances, poems, and nursery rhymes

1. If you eat the flesh of a mermaid you become immortal. 2. The mermaid, or syrenka, is the symbol of Warsaw 3. In Greek Mythology the Sirens were the companions of Persephone, turned into birds by Demeter, her grieving mother for refusing to say what happened to her daughter after she was abducted by Hades. Over time mythology changed the sirens to 1/2 bird 1/2 fish and eventually they became the familiar woman/fish hybrid of the mermaid. 4. Alexander the Great's sister Thessalonike…

Study of a Mermaid