"The little mermaid!

The mermaids are creatures form de greek mythlogy. In the beginning this creatures were hybrids, it is supposed that they were half woman and  half birds. But later they were described as beautiful women with fish tale.

In the greek mythology the mermaids are linked to the "world of the dead". Supposedly the mermaids have an hypnotic voice with wich they attract sealors to later eat them. They were responsible of carry the souls to haes

The first mention of a mermaid is in the odyssey. In the Middle East: The first known stories about mermaids appeared in Assyria, before 1000 BC. In the British Isles: The mermaids were seen in British folklore as unlucky omens.




In China: In some ancient tales, mermaids are a species whose tears become pearls. Moreover, the mermaids can also weave a very valuable material that is not only lightweight but also beautiful and transparent

In literature mermaids are also in some of the stories of The Arabian Nights.

Is said that Atargatis was the first fish women, the goddess of the moon, protector of fertility and love. Atargatis, pursued by Mopsos, plunged into the lake Ashkelon with his son, and was saved by her fish tail.

 In this video a man explains the creatures that he saw in the sea

The god and his sister Tethys Ocean had three hundred daughters, the Oceanides, which then they spread over all the seas and the deep sea. One of them,

Doris, was the mother of fifty other water nymphs, the Nereids, named in honor of his father

Nereus, race of the Old Sea, also created by Ocean and Tethys.

The Nereids live in the Mediterranean Sea, and each one represents one of the ways of the sea. For example, Thalia is the mermaid green, and Glaucea the blue. Dinamenea symbolizes the rolling waves, and Cimodaré, calm. One of the Nereids Amphitrite was Poseidon's lover and mother of Triton. The Nereids protected the ships, and did not sing to attract sailors, but to please his father. The ancients described the Nereids with the body covered with scales and forms of fish. From there, the the mermaid myth grew around the world like ripples on the calm surface of the water