Beautiful Enchanting Sea Creatures Merman
Beautiful Enchanting Sea Creatures Merman
#BeautifulEnchantingSeaCreaturesMerman
https://dai.ly/x800sd6- Mermen, the male counterparts of the mythical female mermaids, are legendary creatures, which are male human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes they are described as hideous and other times as handsome. Wikipedia
First Mentioned: 1000 BC
Based on: Fish
Mythological Origin: Greece
Grouping: Mythological
Sub grouping: Water spirit
Similar Creatures: Mermaid, Havmand
Abilities: Causes shipwreck, Foretells and provokes disaster, Stirs up terrible storm
What is male mermaid called?
The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts.
What does a merman symbolize?
Merman Swimming or Being Underwater: The dreamer's subconscious thoughts and desires manifested. May also represent a secret desire to move on and leave someone behind.
Antiquity
AntiquityOannes had a fish head and man's head beneath, and both a fish tail and man like legs, according to Berossus.[a][1] The fish god Dagon of the Philistines, with a fish-tailed body, may derive its origins from these earlier Mesopotamian gods.[2]
Greco-Roman mythology
Further information: Triton (mythology)
Triton with a nymph
Triton of Greek mythology was depicted as a half-man, half-fish merman in ancient Greek art. Triton was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and sea-goddess Amphitrite. Neither Poseidon nor Amphitrite were merfolk, although both were able to live under water as easily as on land.
Tritons later became generic mermen, so that multiple numbers of them were depicted in art.[3][4]
Tritons were also associated with using a conch shell in the later Hellenistic period.[5] In the 16th century, Triton was referred to as the "trumpeter of Neptune (Neptuni tubicen)" in Marius Nizolius's Thesaurus (1551),[6][b] and this phrase has been used in modern commentary.[7] The Elizabethan period poet Edmund Spenser referred to Triton's "trompet" as well.[8]
#BeautifulEnchantingSeaCreaturesMerman
https://dai.ly/x800sd6- Mermen, the male counterparts of the mythical female mermaids, are legendary creatures, which are male human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes they are described as hideous and other times as handsome. Wikipedia
First Mentioned: 1000 BC
Based on: Fish
Mythological Origin: Greece
Grouping: Mythological
Sub grouping: Water spirit
Similar Creatures: Mermaid, Havmand
Abilities: Causes shipwreck, Foretells and provokes disaster, Stirs up terrible storm
What is male mermaid called?
The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts.
What does a merman symbolize?
Merman Swimming or Being Underwater: The dreamer's subconscious thoughts and desires manifested. May also represent a secret desire to move on and leave someone behind.
Antiquity
AntiquityOannes had a fish head and man's head beneath, and both a fish tail and man like legs, according to Berossus.[a][1] The fish god Dagon of the Philistines, with a fish-tailed body, may derive its origins from these earlier Mesopotamian gods.[2]
Greco-Roman mythology
Further information: Triton (mythology)
Triton with a nymph
Triton of Greek mythology was depicted as a half-man, half-fish merman in ancient Greek art. Triton was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and sea-goddess Amphitrite. Neither Poseidon nor Amphitrite were merfolk, although both were able to live under water as easily as on land.
Tritons later became generic mermen, so that multiple numbers of them were depicted in art.[3][4]
Tritons were also associated with using a conch shell in the later Hellenistic period.[5] In the 16th century, Triton was referred to as the "trumpeter of Neptune (Neptuni tubicen)" in Marius Nizolius's Thesaurus (1551),[6][b] and this phrase has been used in modern commentary.[7] The Elizabethan period poet Edmund Spenser referred to Triton's "trompet" as well.[8]