Mermaids portrayed as evil in pirates Of Carribean movie..

[Spiritlite]

huh I'm going to have to do more research on mermaids now.....
Spiritlite

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Mermaids first appeared historically in Assyria, ca. 1000 BCE. Atargatis, the mother of legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine nature. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid - human above the waist, fish below, though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea, precursor of the Biblical Noah. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo, where she was often associated with Aphrodite.

WIKIPEDIA

PS. unpleasant merpeople appeared in "Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire".

[Spiritlite]

Nice now I wonder if mermaids are kind/mean or what? Are they true to how it was depicted in the Pirates movie.
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Originally Posted by Spiritlite

Nice now I wonder if mermaids are kind/mean or what? Are they true to how it was depicted in the Pirates movie.
Spiritlite.

not sure about mermaids but ...

Water nymphs who lived in wells and caves from which the rivers sprung. They were knowlegeable in medicine and could foretell the future. The Naiads were young and beautiful, but could cause madness and death.

http://www.in2greece.com/english/his...mes/naiads.htm

I've been wanting to see that movie. :)

Although it would be great for mermaids to be seen as beautiful benign creatures, I also understand and remember the legends of "sirens" and how cruel (in a beautiful way nonetheless) they were to the sailors. (Guess they got sick of the company of mermen [if any really exist] lol).

Plus, I kind of agree with you on the fact that the image of angels has become darker and almost more perverse nowadays. But then again, many things have gotten perverse over the years. Angels in their original form (at least under Christian view) are/were powerful, beautiful, and more loving beings.

To each his own, I guess.

[Spiritlite]

BlackCherry that's a good way of looking at it....to each his own.
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[psychoslice]

There is no such thing as a mermaid and its just a movie.

[Spiritlite]

Psycho true it is just a movie........
Spiritlite.

In a lot of traditions, we see the darker side of human nature used as an artistic tool and a friend. So that we can embrace every part of life and fear nothing, and so gain complete clarity in every plane. That worship of everything's passing the whole idea behind Tibetan Buddhism, and plenty of the new Western traditions. The Norse explained everything as a person being murdered or tortured, and telling those stories was a fine release of energy for them.

These days we call for more gentleness, but it's so easy to mistake clinging to the little things in life for compassion. Every time we have an intuition, we cross the Styx via our subconscious mind, what Jung called the 'shadow'. Yet that's where the light is, framed by its good friend the dark. Skulls are such a confusing message for us Westerners, for the same reason. They represent clarity and clairvoyant light - the pure white of the bones, the whole concept of crossing from the living to the afterlife and back. The idea is, when we accept that every face we see will be a pretty pale skull one day - that the damage of loss is already done - we can move on from the pain of loss and just love what we have now. Then we love what we had, and when our adoration for the past and present combine we feel very good about the future.
Actually, a lot of the Indian Sadhus carry around skulls for protection. One of us mentioned above that one of the Hindu goddesses clothes herself in human body parts. Kali. When I was in Southern India, they loved her. Though you have to know the message behind it first, the way you need to know why Christians nail every picture of their prophet to a cross. The body parts represent the demon of delusion, which she's conquered in battle. In accepting the pain of death that this demon's brought on itself, we accept that there is pain, and that it exists to warn us away from harm. All they're doig is making every single sensation helpful and sacred.

That's why spooky myths feel so good to a lot of people, even spiritual ones.

[Spiritlite]

I like that Acchaa....thankyou
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