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Saturday 22 May 2010

MERMAIDS ?



Mermaid ..
There are many tales of mermaids from Japan, but the story of this one is based on an ancient legend 1400 years ago. One story that comes from the story of Shinto belief in Fujinomiya City near the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan.
In one of the Shinto Shrine in Fujinomiya mummi mermaid saved a 170 cm tall 1400 years old.This is one of the oldest and largest mermaid mummies that are still stored in Japan. 




From the creepy-looking shape mummi dugongs, large-headed, round, bald, only a small section of hair that grows in front of your head to the nose. His eyes and his mouth was open.He has a pair of hands with sharp nails (20 cm).
Upper body half human and half resembles the sections below resembles a fish tail. However, the bone structure is not known exactly how the shape because it has not been investigated.
This monster legends about mermaids emerge during Japan's Crown Prince Shotoku (Shotoku Taishi) in the years 574-622 AD. When it went past the edge of Shotoku Lake Biwa. When he withdrew suddenly emerged from the lake monster that cried on Shotoku that he was a fisherman who was condemned to be a mermaid bodied monster half man half fish, because in her past deeds that often kill animals to eat.
He has admitted his mistake a new understanding and hope that he becomes a warning to all human beings not to do the killing of wildlife. This message disampikan to the world in the future. Therefore, he requested that the monster (after death later) was dried and placed disebuah temple as a warning to mankind.
Having delivered the messages that mermaids monster and then die. Shotoku then pondered her words, and drained into mummi mermaids. At the request of the mermaid, crown prince built a temple for the mummi mermaids.
During the 1400 year this mummi move until finally placed in the hands of Shinto Shrine in Fujinomiya until now. Mummi existence is linked to the belief that abstinence from killing wildlife aka the vegetarian life style.
"Dugongs-mermaid" is Real It is not known for sure if the legend about the mermaid comes from a true story or not.However, based on scientific studies on some waters that in the past mermaids often narrated, it was inhabited by the animals special.
Some of the special animals that are still living in freshwater or salt. These animals are often mistaken for mermaids. Perhaps because of his habit, shape and performance are indeed similar. Especially when viewed from a distance.
These animals are known as "dugong", "manatees" and "sea cow (sea cow)." All three species have similar body shapes, but living in different aquatic environments. Classified as a mammal like feeding and sunbathing on the rocks and the edges of the waters, or complain and speak out.
Dugong is a sea mammal-eating plants. Can be found in shallow coastal waters of India, South Pacific (from the eastern coast of Africa to northern Australia), the coastal waters of Papua and other islands in the Pacific. Dugong brown gray, his body along the 2.7 meters and is able to live until age 70 years.
Manatee. There are three types of manatees are already known. There is life in the waters of the Caribbean and along the southeast coast of South America.
Something along the coastal waters and estuaries Florida (USA), and a third type that live in freshwater rivers of the Amazon. Manatee have living in freshwater and saltwater. Manatees gray color, with a body length of 4 meters.
Sea Cow (sea cow). First discovered and identified in 1741 near the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea. Sea cow typically likes to live in shallow water near shore. Body size can be 7.6 meters long and gray-brown color with a subtle polka dot pattern.
Third aquatic animals who breastfeed their children is included in group order (group) water mammals, called Sirenia.
Naming the group was made of water mammal scientists based on ancient beliefs (mythology) that these animals once Sirenia is believed the sailors as the Sirens or mermaids.
Dugongs Legend, Half Man Half Fish Creatures For thousands of years has become a legend of mermaids. Believed to be the embodiment of half human half fish creature. From the western hemisphere to the east, north and south.Stories of mermaids coloring treasure mythology and mystery of the ocean.
Based on the legend of a mermaid is a water creature half human and half again his fish. The waist to the top usually shaped bodies of beautiful women and the waist down covered with scales like a big fish. The story about mermaids are almost the same or similar in any hemisphere, so he became a universal klegenda.
Viewed from Greek mythology, the mermaid is believed to be the beautiful seductress sailors.Who would be tempted to lure the mermaid he met his end. But society as a mermaid considered Babylonian god of the sea, known as Ea or Oannes. But this is a male mermaid.
Another ancient mythology (Greek and Roman) also mentions that the mermaids are creatures that accompany such a sea gods Poseidon, Neptune and Triton. Mermaid-mermaid is usually a female-bodied creature with a beautiful face, plump chested, radiant, but from the waist to the bottom like a fish tail.
Dugongs first appeared in the mythology of Assyria (1000 BC). Atargatis, the mother of Assyrian queen, Semiramis, was the goddess who loved a shepherd, but then he killed her because her love was rejected. Feeling embarrassed he jumped into the lake and turned into fish. In the transformation of shame to redeem it turns into a mermaid.
Then in the period 500 BC, the story of a mermaid came again from a philosopher from the Ionian (Greek region) named Anaximander. He believes that humans originated from a species of aquatic animals. This was later referred to as the evolution of aquatic animals to humans.This opinion was regarded as a justification that dugongs are aquatic animals that are evolving into a human.
Once the popularity of these mermaids, which are listed in parchment and old manuscripts.That in the notes to Alexander the Great, ruler of Macedonia, (356-323 BC) mermaid story also slipped in there. Alexander's sister named Thessalonike mentioned turned into a mermaid after her death.
Mermaid legends and stories are spread everywhere. Narrated by sailors and explorers of the ocean. Generally described as a beautiful woman mermaid fish-tailed, long-haired, melodious voice, like sunbathing on the rocks and the beach. But there's no definitive proof of its existence. Unless pertinggal in the form of sketches depicted on ancient and currency of the Corinthian (Greek).
But there is a book published in 1718 many Dutch in Amsterdam, the peeling about a variety of animal life in the Indian Ocean. This book includes descriptions of articles, various sketches and drawings. In this book there is one detail about the mermaid notes:
"There are intangible female monster half fish, caught in the waters of Amboyna (cluster Maluku islands, Indonesia).
Based on the measurements have a body along the 59-inch (147.5 cm), shaped like a sea eel (moa). This being can only survive for 103 hours (4.5 days) after being arrested, and died at the aquarium. During confinement fed small fish and other seafood, but he did not respond to these foods. "
It seems that dugongs are still a mystery. It is believed to exist, but evidence was never seen until now sure about the existing form of mermaid legends. The experts even concluded that the possibility that mermaids are water mammals known as dugongs, manatees and sea cow (sea cow), which disalahtafsir by the sailors of the past.
Dugongs are famous fairy tales Although many had feared by sailors, was about mermaids very interesting story for children too. One famous tale about a mermaid who is the fruit of the work of the world's storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.
Andersen's work entitled "The Little Mermaid (1836)" became one of the most popular fairy tale about a mermaid and has been translated into numerous languages. Even this story has been filmed in a cartoon version of the same name by Walt Disne, but with little change in the ending.
Andersen's original version, adapting a story about a mermaid who became patron who always end up with misery. A story about a mermaid who was obsessed with life on land and are interested in a prince. To be turned into a man he must be willing to lose his voice (mute). But after becoming a human being, the prince did not love him because he was mute. Finally, the mermaid can not enjoy life and despair.
To the memory of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is notorious, the Little Mermaid statue was built in the harbor in Copenhagen, Danish. The statue that became icons of the port city.(Various sources)

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