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 Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:02 pm
yea I always pictured mermaids as beautiful, but those things had like fangs and horns and stuff. eek so I'm pretty sure that if mermaids do exist, those aren't it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:01 pm
well it's night andd I curse me inseperable fear of the dark, but once I saw the pic with fangs, I had to close the window. thats was certainly creepy, if get around to it I'll look closer, but I have to agree, if they are real, that seems to be a good body, and they would certainly be predators.
I had always imagined them to look much like the zora from LoZ.
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:08 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:23 pm
Neko_Bast the crazy thing is, is that even if they are or where real, people would still say they were fake untill some one gets picts of a live one. No, they would want to see a living, breathing one and then they'd want to dissect it.
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:30 pm
I believe in mermaids.
Note: Those pictures may be of sirens instead of mermaids, its hard to tell. Just because the stories say they are beautiful does not mean they are. Besides, they probably looked better with 'skin'. But in some stories, sirens are fanged and vicious. They are said to be carnivorous. Then again, depends on the story.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 8:39 am
Have any of you heard the various legends involving eating mermaid flesh?
I was actually surprised I didn't see it here.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 4:28 am
Akabane Kuroudou Have any of you heard the various legends involving eating mermaid flesh? I was actually surprised I didn't see it here. I've heard one for Anicent Greek but I'm not sure if mermaid was instead of sirens. I would look the story up but all my books are in boxes at the moment. I'm painting my room. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 1:00 pm
I can only remember some from memory,since all my books are packed too.
I think the one I've heard most might be a Japanese legend,but I am not 100% sure on that. They say if you eat mermaids flesh,you will become immortal. Another variation is that you will not be immortal,but will have to continue to eat mermaid flesh to prolong your life.
There are others,but I can't remember them at the moment.
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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:38 pm
Well, sometimes I wonder if mermaids are simply "nature spirits" or Devas. Many Native Americans believe that things like Gnomes, Fairies, Fauns, and undines are nature spirits.
Just a thought.
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:56 am
FOUND IT!!!!
The South African Mermaid, know as a Kaaiman, has been seen in the Buffelsjags River. It had long black hair, bright red eyes and is said to be a half human half fish creature that is responsible for drownings in the area.
It is seen thrashing around in the water and people that spot it believe it to be a woman in trouble but when they get closer they claim to be pulled forwards as if hypnotised.
It doesn't says that it is a flesh eater but I don't see any over reason for it to hunt people like this if it doesn't.
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:12 pm
I have no doubt in my mind that mermaids and all the other mythological creatures out there are real. Very real! Some are still living here on this earth in secret, hidden-away places, some may be living on another dimensional plane of existence and the most farfetched-sounding but quite likely place they are hiding is among us in human bodies. Yes, I believe in Otherkin; at least after the wild, crazy, schizophrenic mayhem currently surrounding the otherkin theory is cut out of the picture. It's just my opinion, but to me it just makes sense! idea
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:13 am
Wow, I love this thread. So long ago and only now do I find this. =)
Well, Mermaids. A mythological Aquatic {predominantly} Creature. Often confused with the likes of Sirens or are they. I've read in many books especially myths, that the Sirens had a wonderful singing voice used to lure men aboard ships.
From the Odyssey.
As we can tell that would have another few factors in common with the 'mermaid'. A beautiful singing voice, A beautiful face {except the sirens turned ugly- bird form upon the approach of the men whom they were about to eat.}
In Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese, the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia and linked to Biology the Sirenians would comprise of Manatees, Dugongs.
I found another link to all that. In the Greek story of Persephone, where Hades fell in love with Persephone and abducts her. Demeter gives the Sirens wings and their song is supposedly to call out for Persephone.
The Sirens are also depicted as Mantic creatures, knowing the past, present and future. However their song appeals to the souls of people but not the body, like Ulysses when he attempted to hear the song.
They sing to him,
"Once he hears to his heart's content, sails on, a wiser man.
We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured
on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so—
all that comes to pass on the fertile earth, we know it all!"
And over history, when it was first concluded that the Sirens did not harm humans, or eat human flesh, the rumors came to pass that the humans who were attracted simply refused to leave and unable to find food and enchanted by the song, they died.
Soon after, different stories came up slowly connecting them with mermaids and then came the stories that they ate human flesh. These stories came about by the hands of Leonardo Da Vinci and Dinon.
Rumors are that should someone survive from hearing their song, that they would die, so following the story of Odysseus, they flung themselves into the sea and died. But others argue that they could not have died, being {somewhat dieties}. There is another legend that Hera managed to persuade them to enter a song contest against the Muses.
Of course, the Muses {alternately known as the Water Nymphs they were probably talking about the original ones- Aoide "song", Melete "occasion" and Mneme "Memory"} won and they were... *Wait for it* Plucked and their feathers used for crowns.
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:23 am
Well, if mermaids exist, I hope so do other mythical creatures like centaurs, unicorns, harpies and others. mrgreen
Anyway, I think mermaids are real, but sometimes it sound very fake. But, in this world, not all things are as they seem. smile
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