Seeing news
and different stories about mermaids fascinate me. I really want to know if
these creatures were true or not. When I was young, I always watch Barbie,
Cartoons, and Disney Princesses such as Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow
White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, and Ariel, The Little Mermaid. I am
also into reading interesting myth stories and legends. That’s why Mermaids interest
me. I want to know more about them.
Have you ever wondered why there are such beings who are greatly similar to us humans but have tails, swim very fast and do not breathe underwater just like the fish, the dolphins and the sharks?
A mermaid is an aquatic creature with a half body of a human and the other half is of a fish’s tail which serves as its feet.
Have you ever wondered why there are such beings who are greatly similar to us humans but have tails, swim very fast and do not breathe underwater just like the fish, the dolphins and the sharks?
A mermaid is an aquatic creature with a half body of a human and the other half is of a fish’s tail which serves as its feet.
Mermaids,
Merman, Merpeople, Sirens, Water fairies, Water nymphs… they have been known
for a very long time. And until now, the stories of these creatures still exist
and are passed on to different generations. Why? Because a lot of people still
talk about them and are interested to know the truth about the Mermaids’
existence. But where do mermaids come from?
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| Atargatis |
One of the famous stories on how mermaids began is the story of Atargatis. In an article in aquaviews.net entitled "The Mermaid’s Tale" by Creedence Gerlach, the first known Mermaids originated from Assyria, now called Northern Iraq, where the Goddess Atargatis fell in love with a human shepherd boy and when she got pregnant she ended up killing her love unintentionally. She was so ashamed of herself that she threw herself into a lake and pretended to be a fish.
Mermaids
are extremely hard to find. They’re very good in hiding. People, especially
those who live near the sea and those who travel during the ancient times, say
that mermaids suddenly show up singing. But most of the time, what they can
only hear are the mermaids’ hymn. Scientists and researchers take several years
to find some information about mermaids. And it takes lots of money to research
about them because you can’t use just a simple boat to search for the mermaids.
What you need are swimming equipment like diving suits and oxygen tanks in
order to stay long underwater. And also the submarines, which cost a lot,
because mermaids can’t be found in shallow areas of the ocean. But there are times that faith is with us and some people said that they saw a mermaid.
There are lucky people who said that they have seen mermaids. In the article of voices.yahoo.com entitled “The History of Mermaids” by Shelly Barclay, there are recorded events and sightings that mermaids have showed up. These are: Pausanias who claimed to have seen two Tritons, Henry Hudson who wrote in his journal, "From the naval upward, her back and breasts were like a woman's . . . her body as big as one of us; her skin very white and long hair hanging down behind, of the color black; in her going down they saw her tail, which was the tail of a porpoise, and speckled like a mackerel”, and Christopher Columbus who claimed to have seen the mermaids off of the coast of Haiti and Guinea Africa. And Alexander Carmichael who reported that he had met people who had seen and touched the mermaids.
These people believe that mermaids really exist because they saw it with their own eyes, even if there were not enough evidence to prove. But these days, the search for mermaids has been brought up again. In fact, a place in Israel called Kiryat Yam is known to several mermaid sights and stories.
There are lucky people who said that they have seen mermaids. In the article of voices.yahoo.com entitled “The History of Mermaids” by Shelly Barclay, there are recorded events and sightings that mermaids have showed up. These are: Pausanias who claimed to have seen two Tritons, Henry Hudson who wrote in his journal, "From the naval upward, her back and breasts were like a woman's . . . her body as big as one of us; her skin very white and long hair hanging down behind, of the color black; in her going down they saw her tail, which was the tail of a porpoise, and speckled like a mackerel”, and Christopher Columbus who claimed to have seen the mermaids off of the coast of Haiti and Guinea Africa. And Alexander Carmichael who reported that he had met people who had seen and touched the mermaids.
These people believe that mermaids really exist because they saw it with their own eyes, even if there were not enough evidence to prove. But these days, the search for mermaids has been brought up again. In fact, a place in Israel called Kiryat Yam is known to several mermaid sights and stories.
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| Kiryat Yam, Israel |
According to livescience.com, an article entitled "Mermaid
Sightings Claimed in Israel" by Benjamin Radford, Shlomo Cohen, one of
the people who saw the mermaid, said, "I was with my friends when suddenly
we saw a woman laying on the sand in a weird way. At first, I thought she was
just another sunbather, but when we approached, she jumped into the water and
disappeared. We were all in shock because we saw she had a tail." There
were also other people in Kiryat Yam, Israel claiming that they saw mermaids.
These rumors have reached to the mayor.
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| Mr. Shmuel Sisso, Kiryat Yam Mayor |
Because of
his eagerness to see a real mermaid, the mayor of Kiryat Yam in Israel, Shmuel
Sisso, offered $1 Million dollars as a reward to anyone who can give the evidence
that will prove the existence of the mermaids. And because of the mayor's proposal, people started to find and record some evidences that mermaids are real. As a matter of fact, two US tourists have recorded an evidence of a mermaid on top of a rock and sent it to the mayor of Kiryat Yam. It reached the Animal Planet.
According to Animal Planet's video of Mermaids: The New Evidence entitled "Israeli Mayor's $1 Million Proposal" in animal.discovery.com, the mayor said that he saw the footage but that video is not enough because it could be something else. He wants a 100% proof because people want a 100% of the $1 Million.
Proving and making people believe the mermaids is not an easy task to do. We may believe that the video taken by the American tourists in Kiryat Yam, Israel is a real mermaid but still, it is not enough to say and prove that the creature in the video is really a mermaid because the tourists were very far from the stone, the video is not that clear and it’s not an evidence worth of a million dollars. I believe that mermaids do exist. I really do. They might just be at the incredibly deep parts of the sea that are impossible for humans to reach.
According to Animal Planet's video of Mermaids: The New Evidence entitled "Israeli Mayor's $1 Million Proposal" in animal.discovery.com, the mayor said that he saw the footage but that video is not enough because it could be something else. He wants a 100% proof because people want a 100% of the $1 Million.
Proving and making people believe the mermaids is not an easy task to do. We may believe that the video taken by the American tourists in Kiryat Yam, Israel is a real mermaid but still, it is not enough to say and prove that the creature in the video is really a mermaid because the tourists were very far from the stone, the video is not that clear and it’s not an evidence worth of a million dollars. I believe that mermaids do exist. I really do. They might just be at the incredibly deep parts of the sea that are impossible for humans to reach.
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