Fear the deep - Sirens, mermaids, and what’s behind them
It’s not a secret, that I love sirens, they are my favorite mythical creatures of all time. There is a whole world deep under the water that we know nothing about. More than 80% of the oceans are undiscovered and what we don’t know we fill with imagination. It is sometimes horrible monsters – which is quite close to reality, if you’ve ever seen deep-sea fish you know what I’m talking about. They are formidable. But sometimes we imagine whole civilizations live down under with half-human half-fish merman, sometimes more advanced than we are–the remains of Atlantis for example in Aquaman–, sometimes feral, predatory creatures more animal than humans – like in our favourite show, Freeform’s Siren. I. Origins We can discover traces of mermaid folklore in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa too, but today’s pop culture was influenced by Greek mythology and Homer’s Odyssey. Sirens in that story were half-human half-bird creatures with a song that drives sailors mad, only in...