Blogspot #1: Mermaid Mythology

Since when I was a kid. I love watching movies about mermaids and reading books related to them. Because of that fantasy on mermaids sometimes I lay awake at night wondering of how it feels to be a mermaid and how mermaid started. And I tend to try to swim like a mermaid, even though it is so hard to be a wanna be. But because of that thinking, It make me feels good. That's why I choose mermaid as my topic.

According to an article entitled: "Mermaids & Mermen: Facts and Legends " by: Benjamin Radford, Live Science Contributor in LiveScience.com.  "Mermaids have long fascinated us. "

 In this article.  The mermaids dreams to be like us, to have a legs to live like a normal people whom who does not judge by others. They want the life of being us, a human. I also read in this article, back onto the past. The ocean were believed to contain many mysterious creature under the silence of water including the sea serpents, sea monsters, and mermaids.

As we all know, mermaids has the upper body of female human and has a tail of fish. Mermaid also is a good singer that attracts man in the middle of the ocean. Not all of the mermaids are female. They also have their counterpart; The mermans like the typical mermaids they are half human - half fish. Merman picturalize as green seaweed hair, beard and has a trident.

Artagatis, Goddess of Mermaids.

Our all time favorite mermaids has  their Goddess. Artagatis, " The Syrian Goddess " Who has been called, The lady Goddess of the Sea. Origin whose worship spread to greeks and  Rome. Doves and Fish sacred to her. doves as an emblem of the Love-Goddess, and fish as symbolic of the fertility and life of the waters.

This article entitled: "Atargatis, the “Syrian Goddess” by Johanna Stuckey, in martifocus.com "The earliest evidence of this goddess comes from the site of the ancient city Hieropolis — “Sacred City”  — which is the modern Membij and the Greek Bambyce. "

I found in this article that Atargatis, the Syrian Goddess has many different names like Ataryatis, Attayathe, Ataryate, and Tar’atha. She is also a goddess of fertility, she was also called a mistress in their city. She is popularly known as the goddess of mermaids. Artagatis also have temples in duro-europos on the euhrates and palmyra in syrian desert. Duro euporos is one of the oldest synagogues in the history. 

 As we can see here, some people believe that mermaids, like us, has their own Gods and Goddess. and I learned that. Artagatis, Goddess of Mermaids, is came from the city hieropolis also known as "Sacred City" in Phygria in western anatolia. And, on the first article that I gathered, mermaids has so much obsess on what we have; a legs to walk, a life to act like a normal person and to have an unconditional love, because of this data that I collect and read, it made me more believe that mermaids really do exist.