Mermaid legends around the world mermaid image in different regions of the heart

Perhaps the image of mermaids is romantic and sentimental, they have a vast expanse of the sea, is the sea guardian of the messenger. But not but do not know that mermaids also have horror legends, not every mermaid legend is so beautiful, then the following follow China to understand those mermaid legends.

The earliest mermaid legends

Most of them may be from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Daughter of the Sea", Disney's "The Little Mermaid", Takahashi Rumiko's "Mermaid's Wound" to understand the siren and beauty of the mermaid story. But the most famous mermaid legend is not Hans Christian Andersen's "The Daughter of the Sea," but the Norse mythological epic "The Song of the Bernilungen"

The Song of the Bernilungen records that the earliest mermaid legends in the West took place more than 1,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which was located in the two river basins of Mesopotamia (the Tigris River and the Euphrates River). At that time, the goddess Aegisthus fell in love with a shepherd and gave birth to the queen of Semiramis, who would become the legendary queen of Assyria, but the goddess Aegisthus killed the shepherd, and felt remorse after the killing, and turned into a fish, but the lake water did not submerge the upper half of her body, and so became a mermaid, although the earliest depictions of Aegisthus were of a fish with a human head and legs, similar to those of the Ancient Babylonian era. Ancient Babylonian image of a mermaid. The Greeks called her Dekodo.

In fact, many mermaid legends symbolize unfortunate things, we are looking at the Odyssey of the sirens, the siren Sirens of the upper body of the breathtaking beauty, the lower body is full of scales of the icy fish tail, coupled with her seductive song, countless sailors were so led to the point of no return. When the great hero Odysseus sailed through the sea, he accepted the witch's advice, so that the crew tightly plugged their ears to avoid hearing Siren's bewitching song, and will not plug the ears of their own tightly tied to the mast of the ship, so as not to be compelled to go mad.

The image of mermaids in the eyes of Japan

Japan's image of mermaids, through the Japanese 13th century, "Ancient and Modern Shimenji" describes that there is a mermaid-like monster called Isohime, with the lower half of the body in the shape of a fish, very much like a mermaid, and the face is very different. The mouth is split up to the ears, with sharp teeth, and two antler-like things grow on the head, which is quite a scary siren. She hides on the shores of the stormy sea, and when someone comes near, she attacks on the waves, twisting the body of the person from the head. Isohime is a demon with a length of about 20 to 30 meters or more, so once she snipes back, no matter how powerful a man is, he can't hold back.

European eyes of the mermaid image

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale world, "the little mermaid" is the youngest daughter of the king of the sea, carefree life in the sea. She has the beautiful face of an angel and the melodious voice of a nightingale. According to the rules of the undersea palace, the "mermaids" will only have the opportunity to come out of the sea when they reach the age of 15 to see the human world. The beautiful "Little Mermaid" finally waited for this day.

The Polish mermaid legend is that there is a mermaid in the Vistula River in the Baltic Sea. A young man named Wahl and a young woman named Shawa, accompanied by a boat downstream to the current capital of Poland, Warsaw, to open up their homes, the mermaid in the river is their witness and shelter. Here gradually developed into a city, the descendants in order to commemorate them, they will be the two names together "Warsaw" as the name of the city; at the same time, the image of the mermaid as the emblem of the city of Warsaw.

The above is a collection of images of mermaids around the world in people's minds, if you want to know more details, please pay attention!