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Bermuda Triangle

In the Atlantic Ocean lies the famous "Bermuda Triangle", a limited area between Bermuda, Bahamas, Puerto Rico and FortLauderdale (Florida). In any satellite image or map, if we unitethese islands with a straight line will form a triangle, which gives rise to its name.

But what mysteries lie behind this area? For the decade since the 50's began to bedocumented disappearances of planes and shipsthat were lost in the depths of the ocean without reasonable explanation. Not only that, also reported some other strange occurrences as the appearance of unidentified objects off thesurface, malfunctioning compasses, and peculiar behavior of the waves that were displayed on the coast.

Decades of 60'y 70's were the boom years of this mystery, whichnamed the area a "BermudaTriangle" or "Triangle of Death" by the hand of Vincent Geddis, a journalist who was part team a U.S.tabloid magazine called Argosy.

The most famous incident in the world was the "Flight 19" when a whole squadron of U.S. Navy bombaredero disappeared in this area. According to Charles Berlitz, naval aviators had reported a strange behavior in the ocean, and then lost all contact. Restronevermet them or even one of the rescue planes also disappeared.

Among the many reports that followed were false stories, whichmade ​​the public lose the massive interest in this case. However, there are many other events that have not had a logical explanation, filling mystery to this day the waters of this area.



Sirens

In Greek mythology, sirens are a class that includes several fuzzybeings are distinguished by a compelling and wonderfully musical voice; oldest artistic representations of Greece, the birds listed as the female face or torso, is probably due to the Association of birds singing, and the frequent use of iconographic winged to represent the spirits of the dead. Many of the earliest graphic traces the sirens are on monuments and grave offerings, and follows thelink with the Underworld and Death, a subject that today is still debated by experts. In principle, the Greeks would have seen the sirens as the charge of transporting the souls of the dead to Hades.
In pre-classic period and began to identify with mermaids, and his song to be described as an irresistible attraction that led to the downfall of seafarers. Different stories make the gods descend orForcis river Achelous, whether female or no intervention Sterope Muses, Melpomene and Terpsichore, associated with singing and dancing. Their number is too vague, counting between two and five names registered include Agláope (the beautiful face), Telxiepia (words aclamantes) or Telxínoe (heart's delight), Pisínoe (the persuasive) Parthenope (maiden aroma) , Ligeia (used later by Edgar Allan Poe'sfamous eponymous short story about a woman of mortal beauty) Leucosia (as a pure being) MOLP (the muse), Radner (upgrading) and Teles (perfect).
Anthropologists debate whether these figures are not geniuses of the steps that are (or in this case, invite) the gates of death, relatives of Scylla and Charybdis, which are close in the Homeric myths. Euripides, in a verse choir Helena (line 168) callsparthenikoi παρθηνικοι κοραι korai, 'young girls', in this fragment was supported Laurence Kahn-Lyotard and Nicole Loraux for inclusion in the figures of the past, identifying the singing of the Isles of the Blessed described by Plato.
Episodes are often noted in mythical, often reminiscent of his former role as chthonic deities. Some versions tell that accompanied when Persephone was abducted byHades, and his bestial appearance was the penalty imposed by Demeter for failing to protect her daughter of the god of the underworld. In others, the winged body is a gift from Zeus to allow them to prosecute the abductor, and in still others it is a penalty imposed by Aphrodite to resist pleasure. There is also the Sirens lost their wings as punishment for challenging the Muses to a singing...