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Water spirit. Country. Worldwide. A merman ( pl.: mermen ), the male counterpart of the mythical female mermaid, is a legendary creature which is human from the waist up and fish -like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes mermen are described as hideous and other times as handsome.
Mermen are mythical creatures that have been a part of folklore and mythology for centuries. They are often depicted as having a human upper body and a fish-like lower body. Some legends describe them as hideous, while others portray them as handsome and alluring. Mermen are the male counterparts of mermaids, who are also legendary creatures ...
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- Tenshou-Kyousha Shrine Mermaid Mummy. Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids. 35.2221, 138.6216. Add/Edit Notes. Added by Annetta Black.
- Big Bend Power Plant Manatee Viewing Area. Manatees—the creatures thought to have inspired the mermaid myth—congregate around a power plant's discharge canal.
- The Nature Museum Feejee Mermaid. This taxidermied chimeras has the tail of a fish, the torso of what might be a monkey, and, strangely enough, a mustache.
- Jeju Mermaids. South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen. 33.4035, 126.8896. Add/Edit Notes.
Mermaids and Mermen. Legendary supernatural sea people, human from the head to the waist but with a fish tail instead of legs. In German folklore, a mermaid was known as "meerfrau," in Danish "maremind," Irish "murduac" (or "merrow"). In Brittany, the "morgans" were beautiful sirenlike women, dangerous to men, while in British maritime lore ...
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Conrad Gessner, Historiae Animalium (Frankfurt, 1620), iv, p. 441. The above image, from Worth’s copy of Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium shows another variation of a mermen (this time with flipper-like legs as well as a fish tail), and a decidedly less human face. Gessner reports that it was seen at Rome on 3 November, 1523 and was ...
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Mar 31, 2022 · More commonly mermen rather than maids, the images may have represented ‘Ea’, the Babylonian god of the sea, who was depicted as having a human head and arm. The deity, more precisely known as the god of ritual purification, governed the arts of incantation and sorcery and was also the form-giving god, or patron of craftsmen and artists.
