Blogpost 2: Traditions(myths and arts) in the Reality

Some of us believe that many of our believes is classified in our mythological theories or based on arts(about mermaids).Many of our grandparents or parents rather say that this would our traditions and we have to follow all those believes because nothing will happen. But all of you would classify to scientific studies rather than old traditions. Every day somethings change but we all don't want to allow because we want to stay in our traditional places but we as a human can't stop changes.

I read an article about mermaids entitled "Mermaids in Myth and Art" by Gail-Nina Anderson the site was www.forteantimes.com states that mermaids are not been used in stories or books but can be seen in ballad with characters and in various paintings or bestiaries.


Traditions to our countries was a part of  daily life. Some countries in the European part including French, Italian and Spanish, the word "mermaid" is derivative of "siren" while "dugongs" and manatees are sea-mammals that  is behind from mermaid sightings belongs to the order of Sirenia. There was where say that they heard mermaids while singing in Odyssey , where Odysseus was once heard seductive song that causes his sailors to jump-off to the sea. There would be some in medieval bestiaries, the Sirens is listed as their classical origins who likely to be shown as a mermaids. Some memorable of like a siren was when in a famous story A Midsummer Night's 



Dream was when Oberon the king of fairies said 
that he remembers a mermaid who rides a dolphins back and sings so sweetly that stars shoot from their spheres to her when they hear her. There would be in a 19-century romanticism called the "Lore Lay" in ballad of 1802 by Clemens von Brentano, the story tells about a girl who betrayed in love and transformed to a sorceress. Brentano presents her as a guardian spirit of the rock, a beautiful fairy.


"There’s no mermaid dogma, nor even a central text setting out quite what they are. Appropriate to 
their ambiguous nature, mermaids are slippery creatures, at home in a surprising range of contexts, from the oral traditions of folklore to the most officially approved manifestations of high art." said by Gail-Nina Anderson.


Most arts and myths is about our history their would some part that they state of a mermaids that actually exist and seen and heard of it. 

Mermaids in the other  hand is a mysterious kind of creature and many of would just rather that they are useless of time but until the time you know about them little by little there would be some ideas that will be made on your mind . Mermaids will makes our minds think about some ideas that we will never thought who will be affected.


The article I've read is "From Mermaids to Manatees: the Myth and the Reality" by Caty Fairclough and the site was www.ocean.si.edu states that mermaids affects our lives not just our 
culture(myths and arts) but can also affects others.

They would be different Kings and Gods in different kind of country and believes but many in the part of Mesopotamian mythology an ancient Babylonian God. He a first to recognized a half-human and a half-fish creature. Their would be some vicious personality of a mermaid in a movie J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Mermaids would be enough attention and affection who scientically not real... how would their real double( dugongs and manatees) who is struggling to survive because of their extinction hasn't enough attention for that.


"While mermaids hold much of our attention and affection, their real-life doubles are left struggling in the sea." Ms. Caty Fairclough said.


Because of how you are willing to know for that things that is circling our minds their would be times that those things which you don't think of having enough attention would be the one will suffer a lot or maybe worse. This time lets make sure that pursuasive enough would make us regret the whole time.