Mermaid Mythology

Hye everyone!!
Have you ever heard about mermaid mythology?? I'm sure you have..actually when we talk about mermaid, we always picture a beautiful lady with a tail which is kind and benevolent to humans. They keep to their own kind in the deep waters of the ocean. But not all stories go this way, though, and in most cases the most ancient tales of mermaid mythology follow quite a different view. In some version, mermaids are viewed as evil-intentioned creatures who would sing to men on ships or shores hypnotizing them with their beauty and song. The men would then rush out to sea only to be either drowned, eaten, or otherwise sent to their doom.

Some people believed that even well-intentioned mermaids would cause great danger to men when they mistakenly believed they saw a woman drowning and would dive into the waters to save them. Other tales suggest that mermaids either forgot or didn't understand that humans could not breathe underwater, and they would pull them down into the depths of the sea, accidentally drowning them in the process.

In the modern mythology of mermaids, however, this is rarely the case.These beings are more likely to be seen as innocent and sweet. Much of the modern interpretation of mermaids came from the most famous tale in all of mermaid mythology - Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the subsequent Disney movie of the same name.

By the way, when I googled about this myth, the earliest known mermaid legends come from Syria around 1000 B.C. where the Syrian goddess Atargatis dived into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the powers there would not allow her to give up her great beauty, so only her bottom half became a fish and she kept her top half in human form. Overall, this is an interesting myth. Myth symbolizes the uniqueness of a culture. Whether it is true or not, we will never know. They are just stories told by the old folks, passed down from one generation to another. We should not be too obsessed with myth up to the point where it consumes our lives. Just enjoy the story and take the good values out of it.