"The merman, that is, the spring first, also known as the spring guest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ…… There is a dragon silk palace in the South China Sea, where the spring weaves yarn first, and there is a white frost on the silk. ”

- Southern Dynasties, Liang Renfang, "Narrative of Differences".

Streamlined and slender, with a good build, similar to a human, slightly thin and tall.

However, the upper limbs and the sides of the body are connected with translucent leather wings and whiskers, which make it look beautiful and flowing, but this is necessary to swim in the sea.

The lower body is attached from the waist with a number of skirt-like transparent straps that are longer than the legs.

When swimming, your legs are wrapped in it to help you reduce the resistance of the current.

Legend has it that the merman is a tribe of ancient human beings who changed their physique to hide in the water to avoid the scourge of war, so they have legs, and the legend is that the fisherman met the immortal in the sea and was turned into a servant, but no one knows what the real origin of the merman is, and the legend is always just a legend.

Male mermaids have fins on their backs, while females are transparent and soft, so males look fierce and feminine feminine.

Sharks have hair and come in a variety of colors.

In order to work and fight, the lower class of mermaids need to shave them from a young age and tattoo them on the top of their heads.

Women are tightly tied up or worn with a silk hat.

Shark men with long hair are often a sign of nobility and class.

The merman's body is covered by streamers and whiskers, so he no longer wears clothes.

When standing or walking in the water, the leather wings and whiskers cover most of the body, and the upper body is bare when swimming, and the lower body is in the streamer.

Only some nobles did not have to swim long distances on their own because they rode on floating carts pulled by giant fish (made of aquatic weeds and light wood), so in order to show their special status and protect their bodies, they made cloak and wraps and other clothes with smooth aquatic plants or a special fabric called silk (made of the foam film of the sea bream and made of scale powder and fish oil, which was extremely smooth and did not absorb water).

After a long time, as the popularity of the shark became more popular, some people began to follow suit.

Shark males usually have the same skin as humans, but when encountering enemies, they quickly transform into a fighting constitution, forming a hard scaly carapace skin on the outside of their bodies, as if they were wearing armor.

Women are not capable of doing so.

Sharks with an extra-aquatic constitution are normally unable to survive outside of water for more than a day.

Once ashore, you must take daily medication and spend several hours recovering in the water.

Moreover, the effect of non-seawater does not recover well, which will affect health, and the longer you stay outside the water, the weaker your body will become.

If you use drugs for a long time, your health will be damaged and your life will be shortened.

However, there are also many things that the mermaids are willing to venture out on the land, so they can sometimes find hidden strongholds in the deep pools of the great lake.

Legend has it that the mermaids have a strange method that allows people to breathe and live in the sea, but it also comes at the cost of reducing their lifespan, but no one in the human race knows this secret method.

Sirens and Banshees 1, Sirens were originally the gods of the sea, and in Greek mythology Siren (siren) is also translated as Siren, and their alias is Acerroides, which means "the daughters of Acrois".

The sirens used their singing voice to make the passing sailors lose their attention, and the ship ran aground and sank.

It is a monster with a human head and a bird's body (or a bird's head and a human body, or even similar to a mermaid) in Greek mythology, and often flies down on reefs or ships in the sea, and is also known as a kraken.

The sirens are the daughter of the river god Ekrous, a beautiful goblin born from his blood.

Because of the defeat in the music competition with the Muse, the Muse plucked his wings, making it unable to fly.

Having lost her wings, she had to swim near the shoreline, sometimes transforming into a mermaid, with eagle wings, the face of a beautiful woman, and a singing voice comparable to that of the shepherd flute of the god Hermes, and she sang a beautiful song day and night, seducing passing ships, and all sailors who heard her song would turn around and sail in search of the magic sound, and finally ran aground in the reef-strewn sea.

In the middle of the night and in the early morning when it rains, the siren's song will be particularly gentle and clear, and the song will be like a heavenly sound piercing the sky and diffusing in the sea and air; That song pierces everything, so that the passion of the **** can break things that are harder than chains and masts.

The island inhabited by the sirens is located near the Strait of Messina, where two other sirens, Schilla and Calybdis, are inhabited at the same time.

It is precisely because of this that the sea in that area has long been piled up with the bones of the victims.

In Greek mythology, the hero Odysseus was aware of the siren's deadly song that mortals could not resist when he led his fleet through the Strait of Messina.

So he ordered the sailors to cover their ears with wax and tie themselves to the mast of the ship with ropes, so that they could cross safely.

Legend has it that Orpheus, the son of the sun god Apollo and a harpist, also passed through the Siren's place because he overwhelmed the Siren's song with his voice.

The same is the head of a woman and the body of a bird, the siren is more similar to Harpia, but the banshee with the body of the bird is often depicted as a fierce and rude, troublesome beast; The venomous and deadly sirens are delicate and elegant.

In other accounts, the sirens are the guides of the underworld.

Legend has it that the siren was the girlfriend of Bersephonie, the queen of the underworld, who was robbed by the king of Hades, and failed to fulfill her duty to protect Bersephonie, and was punished to transform into a strange form and guide the soul of the dead to the underworld.

The Ornichia is a messenger of the soul in some legends, further suggesting a possible connection between the two.

2. The Harpy is a mythical creature in the West.

The word harpy is derived from the classical Greek word "?pπuia"

(harpyia), meaning "robber"

。

In Greek mythology, the harpy was born to Eligar, the ama, and Taumas, the god of the sea.

In many games, film and television works, there are bird-body banshees.

According to the records of the "Divine Genealogy", they have flowing hair and good looks, and there are two of them: "Wind"

(aello/allo) and "Flying Wings"

（ocypete）。

Later, it gradually evolved into a monster in the legend: the lower body is like a bird, born with two wings, sharp claws and toes, and the rest of the parts are like ugly women, with an old face and ears like a bear.

Virgil added another "darkness" to them

(Calaeno/Thyella) as the leader, forming the Harpy Three Sisters.

Once they became monsters, their original family tree became incompatible, and some say that they were the daughters of the monster Typhon and the snake woman Evilena.

Harpies have a violent personality.

Virgil mentions that they had long-term diarrhea, and that they had a pungent stench as far as they could fly, and that anyone who came close to them was tainted by the anger, dizzy, and dizzy, and unable to fight.

The harpy symbolizes the nature of the raging wind, so it comes and goes as swift as the wind.

According to Seychelle Smith's Notes on Greek Studies, they were the embodiment of the spirit of the scorching south wind.

Harpies have a long history of ghosts and hell, and their nests are located on the island of Stefa in the Aegean Sea (or in the caves of Crete), which is the gateway to hell.

In Homer's epic poems, Hades sent harpies as messengers of spirits, and if anyone deserved to be detained in the world, they forcibly took them away and threw them directly into the abyss (tartarus).

The British Museum is home to the famous Lycian Harpy Monument, which depicts them snatching away their souls.

Dante's Divine Comedy uses it as a caretaker of the woods of the suicidal in hell.

The psalmist writes: "They have wide wings, and their heads and necks are like those of men / With claws on their feet, and their big bellies and feathers all over / They roost on strange trees, and they mourn incessantly." ”

Jakob van Malland is said to have been a goblin who was always gluttonous and greedy, never satisfied.

The ancient Greeks believed that this came from the curse of the gods.

Therefore, the motif of the harpy is often related to food.

For example, in Homer's Iliad, the harpie soiled the Trojan food on the island of Storfa and was counterattacked, killing several of his companions.

So the leader "darkness"

Prophecy: Disaster will befall the Trojans, and they will encounter famine.

Valerius Flaccus's "Heroes of the Argonauts" tells another myth about the harpies, which also mentions food: the Thracian king Philene could foresee the future.

Zeus exiled him to a desert island because he had revealed the Celestial Decree.

The island was rich in food, but whenever Phoenis wanted to eat, the harpie would fly in and take the delicious food from the table.

Later, Iason and the Argonaut ship heroes came to the island.

Phoenis begged them to drive away the demons, promising to show them the way forward.

So the heroes sent the two sons of the god of the north wind, Galai and Zit.

The brothers grew wings and drove the harpy all the way to the Stophara's lair.

Thanks to the rainbow goddess who came forward and promised not to disturb the king again, they escaped death.

(The Rainbow Goddess was also born to Elijah and Taumas, and is therefore a sister to the Harpy.)

According to the Iliad, it is called "Rapid Foot"

The bird demon seduced the god of the west wind and gave birth to a pair of horses "chestnut yellow"

(xanthus) and "piebald"

(balius), which later became Achilles' mount.

"Quick Feet"

Generally considered "dark"

aliases.

There is also a version that a harpy and Zephyr gave birth to the fast horse Areion.

In addition to Hades, other gods sometimes hired harpies to take revenge.

For example, they have a hound named "Zeus"

, and is also seen as the embodiment of Athena's punishment of the world.

Harpies and sirens seem to have a relationship, but there are no records to confirm this.

The two are similar, but the sirens are more attractive and have a gentler temperament.

Harpies have many relatives in mythology: the vengeful three sisters of ancient Greece, the Valkyrie of Northern Europe, and the "soul bird" of ancient Egypt

Lu, Islam's "Demon Tartar"

, Maori Island's "Cave Langai Tuku"

(kurangaituku), Australia's "Bagini"

(bagini), as well as Yu Qiang, Gou Mang, Jiufeng and so on in the Chinese "Classic of Mountains and Seas".