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Is there real Mermaid in this world2007-11-24 23:37:50

I am just wondering to know whether there is mermaid in this world or not? If there is then where does they live, have any one seen them live?

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Tales of mermaids are nearly universal. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BCE. Atargatis, the mother of 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 鈥?human above the waist, fish below 鈥?though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo, where she was often conflated with Aphrodite.

Lucian of Samosata in Syria (2nd century CE) in De Dea Syria ("Concerning the Syrian Goddess") wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:

"Among them - Now that is the traditional story among them concerning the temple. But other men swear that Semiramis of Babylonia, whose deeds are many in Asia, also founded this site, and not for Hera Atargatis but for her own Mother, whose name was Derketo"

"I saw the likeness of Derketo in Phoenicia, a strange marvel. It is woman for half its length, but the other half, from thighs to feet, stretched out in a fish's tail. But the image in the Holy City is entirely a woman, and the grounds for their account are not very clear. They consider fishes to be sacred, and they never eat them; and though they eat all other fowls, they do not eat the dove, for she is holy so they believe. And these things are done, they believe, because of Derketo and Semiramis, the first because Derketo has the shape of a fish, and the other because ultimately Semiramis turned into a dove. Well, I may grant that the temple was a work of Semiramis perhaps; but that it belongs to Derketo I do not believe in any way. For among the Egyptians, some people do not eat fish, and that is not done to honor Derketo." [1]

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yur a dope

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Yes there is and the Lockness Monster is their protector.

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Oh course there is. Not sure where they live and have never seem one myself but sometimes you have to believe. I have never seen God but still believe!

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yeah sure. but they only come out when absolutely no one is looking.

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Do you believe in fairy tales? Of course not!

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I saw on some show there is something called mermaid syndrome. This is where a child is born with his/her legs fused together. A baby was born like that recently & they publicized the operation to seperate the legs.

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no mermaids dont exist

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An even better question would be, when engaging in sexual relations with a mermaid, where do you put it?

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ya just check it out in yahoo images

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Yep, Mer Maid came round this morning & did the cleaning after weighing herself on mer scales!

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There's a fish which look like a mermaid

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Its all about what you want to believe.