Sirenas

MERMAIDS:

Mermaids are fabulous beings originated in Greek mythology.
These beings have spread throughot Western literature but the function and representation of them has varied over the time.
Firstly, mermaids were thought to be a mix of bird and woman, lately mermaids are known as young women with fish tail.
Nowadays mermaids are thought as a supreme beauty model buttruly in the classical tradition the only attraction of them was his voice and not his physical.
To sum up mermaids are horrible but extraordinary singers, every time a boat approached them, they started to sing so sailors charmed by the sweetness of his voice they jumped into the sea in order to listen then better, the problem was that once they thrown into the sea they would never return.
Onthe other hand, if a sailors was not attracted by a mermaid one of them should die.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT:

·Geek mythology:
As we have said before in the Greek mythology mermaids are equipped with a musical voice wonderfully attractive.
Greeks linked mermaids songs with the singing of the birds so that is because mermaids were thought as a mix of birdand woman, besides greeks thought that mermaids were responsible for transporting deads' souls.
Later in the Preclassic era songs became known as an attraction that leads to destruction of marine.

·Middle East:
In this geographical area mermaids were represented half a fish's body because of the legend of Diodoru Siculo.

·British isles:
In british folklore mermaids were understood tobe the bearers of bad luck.
British mermaids could swim in fresh water so they could reach the rivers with the aim of apparently normal people who were drowning and drowning who would assist them, they also have the ability of cure some diseases.

the most common legends in wales were the history of dahud and Murgen.
In Scottish mythology feautures a mermaid tail salmon and says the legend thatif someone capture her she will grant three wishes if she returned to the sea but if a man falls in love for her, he will be dragged to the depths.

·China:
For chinese mermaids are beings whose tears become pearls, it was also thought mermaids to have valuable material, transparent, beautiful and light which made sailors have a greater interest in fishing them but their songs made itdifficult to catch them.

·Spain:
Spanish mermaids were fish-woman who appealed men or they also were benevolent creatures.
the most famous mermaid in the european mythology is “sirenuca” in Cantabria who was responsible for alerting the sailors who came to cliffs.
In the Basque Country, mermaids could be dominated by sailors and also fall in love of them but sometimes they got angry and theycould drown them or bring bad weather to the coast.
Extremadura, mermaids live in the rivers and they lured their victims with their songs and then they drown them.

LEGEND:
“Mermaids delights mortals who approach them but the person who stop to listen their songs is completly crazy! He would never see again his wife and his sons since their hypnotical voices seem to put a spell on them whilethe neighboring bank is full of human remains tainted meat...”
this text was written 2.800 years ago and it is probably the origin of the oldest and best known legend: mermaids sirens lure sailors with their magical voices, and make boats run aground and the crew drowned.
Homer imagined mermaids like this so he told us so.

·Ulises and mermaids.
Ulises was one of the legendaryGreek heroes firstly mentioned in the poems of the Trojan Cycle, then he was one of the protagonists of the Iliad and finally the central character of the Odyssey, the two works attributed to Homer, and later in many other works.
Odyssey is a poem written by Homer and composed of twenty four songs.
It recounts the homecoming of Odysseus after the Trojan war, a trip that lasts twenty years, thanks...