Is there real Mermaid in this world?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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 — 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. 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]

Answer 2

There's a fish which look like a mermaid

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Why no longer? all of us understand a lot less about our oceans than we do about outer area. on a daily basis we are researching new species in inner area--heretofore unknown or theory extinct. Perennial optimist that i'm, does no longer it truly is tremendous to come across a "stay" one? They walk between us on 2 legs till a particular finished moon at the same time as they ought to go back to their domicile interior the sea.

Answer 5

Im not sure that right now they are alive or not but Im sure they used to exist so many years ago in, maybe before Ice age or something like that, I have a picture of them. Scientist have found them in arctica in its like a man but he has a tail instead of legs, if u want I can mail u that picture

Answer 6

Is this a real question? No mermaids exist except in one's imagination.

Answer 7

Yes of course they do but they live in the jungle and only come out at night.

Answer 8

A mermaid was found at the coast of one of South Africas little towns. Ive actually received an email of he/she/it.
Not actually as pretty as I thought they'd be....

But Im gona email the pics to you now now....
Okay... your emails not showing...
but mail me first then Ill mail you the pics 'kay!

mwa mwa!

Answer 9

if you are rerfering to mermaids as in their swiming ability, then yes.i married one live with, love, and sleep with one. she is not however fish fron the waist down but in water she can swim just as well as if she were the mermaid of fantisity.

Answer 10

No, unless you liked the movie Splash with Tom Hanks.