Side Story: Siren Banshee [Reprinted, Source: Du Niang]

The siren comes from ancient Greek mythology, in which she was portrayed as a siren with a human face and a bird's body, flying on the sea, with a heavenly singing voice, often singing to tempt passing sailors and cause the ship to sink on the rocks, and the crew became the siren's belly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The info siren is 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 their wings, the sirens had to cruise near the coastline, sometimes transforming into mermaids, using their musical talents to lure passing sailors to their destruction.

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.

Siren is also known as Siren, and their alias is Achilloides, which means "the daughters of Achillous". 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 used their singing voice to make the passing sailors lose their attention, and the ship ran aground and sank. Legend has it that there is a siren island in the waters off Sicily, inhabited by siren banshees. The sirens had the wings of an eagle and the face of a beautiful woman, and she had a singing voice comparable to that of Hermes, the god Hermes, and she sang a beautiful song day and night, seducing passing ships, and all sailors who heard her song would turn their course 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; The song penetrates all, and enables the passions of the seduced to break things harder than chains and masts.

Soon, Odysseus' ship was about to sail into the waters of the island of Siren. The sailors were terrified, legend has it that no one ever left the island alive, and far away, one could even feel the souls of those shipwrecked in Sicily dancing on the surface of the sea with the coming storm, those souls dancing, telling of the boundless sea of bitterness and beautiful songs. At this moment, Odysseus's ship suddenly stopped in the middle of the sea, because the tailwind that propelled the ship abruptly stopped, and the sea was as calm as the bottom of the sea where the sun could not shine. The sailors had no choice but to lower their sails and rock their oars forward. The closer the ship got to the island of Siren, the more intense the stagnant aura grew in the air, and gradually the sailors trembled at the horror of the atmosphere.

So they came to Odysseus: "O our great Odysseus, you are a Greek warrior with godlike wisdom, please use your wisdom and courage to lead us out of this eerie sea of no return!" Odysseus looked out at the sea ahead, and in the sun, the island of Sirens loomed. He clenched his fists as a way to dispel the throbbing that flashed in his heart, Odysseus was invincible, how could he be intimidated by the temptation of the banshee? Thinking of this, he ordered the sailors to plug their ears with beeswax, so that they would not hear the beautiful song of the sirens, and would not be tempted to run aground and die. And Odysseus, a man as great as a god, wanted to hear with his own ears the song of the Sirens, the legendary voice comparable to that of the shepherd flute of the god Hermes. So he asked the sailors to tie their hands and feet and tie themselves to the mast with iron cables.

As the ship approached, Odysseus looked out over the mast and the island of Sirens was clearly visible. At that moment, the Siren's song rang out, and it pierced the ear drums and reached Odysseus' heart. The sirens were singing: "My wisdom is like the sun and the moon shining in the world, and I know the ...... of war and love in the world" The invisible magic sound invaded Odysseus's body with the air, lingering in his body like a demon, and the gossamer song gently touched his nerves, and restrained his will finely and densely, and in the seductive heavenly sound, Odysseus gradually saw the shallows of the Siren.

When the siren saw the ship approaching, she transformed into a beautiful woman, and came to the green shore, where she was more beautiful than ever, and she stretched out her waist, spun around, and let her long enchanting hair flutter in the wind; Her neck was turning, she was breathing deeply, her thick eyelashes drooping, and her eyes were full of tears; Her seductive lips were slightly open, and the terrifying song seemed to be overflowing from them. The siren looked at Odysseus from afar, a gaze that melted the will of the gods, and she sang in a sweet and melodious voice: "Come, Odysseus, glorious Greek, please stop and listen to my song." No boat can sail past the beautiful island of the Sirens unless the helmsman listens to my beautiful singing.

The beautiful song gives you joy and wisdom, and accompanies you on a safe voyage. The Sirens knew full well that in the Trojan wilderness, the gods made the heroes of both sides experience the hardships of life. My wisdom is like the sun and the moon shining on the earth, and I know the wars and love that take place in the world......" Listening to this, Odysseus suddenly had an irrepressible desire in his heart to run to the island and be with the beautiful and seductive sirens. So he struggled and shook on the mast, and cried out loudly for the sailors to lower him, but the sailors could not hear anything, and still struggled to rock the oars.

The siren's song grew farther and farther until it was annihilated in the vast expanse of the sky. Odysseus led his sailors, escaping the bewitchment of the Sirens, and sailed safely across the sea of no return. Odysseus, on the other hand, is the only human who has crossed the moving song of the Sirens, a combination of nature and human. The ship sailed by, leaving behind Odysseus a silent and vanishing aria.