People started believing in Mermaids when strange things started happening to men when they were at Sea.
We merfolk personify the WATER -- the water that gives you life and sustains you. This is the mission of the merfolk: TO GUARD THE SACREDNESS OF WATER and TO MAKE HER ESSENCE KNOWN TO YOU.
The men would come back with incredible stories of the beautiful women they saw out there. Some sitting on rocks combing their beautiful long hair. Singing to them. Singing to them that is how Mermaids get mixed up with Sirens. There is one BIG difference in a Mermaid and a Siren and that is that Merpeople don't lure men to do their death. We have beautiful voices that help people that are lost at sea and believe me they are quite lost since like the faeries and Gnomes we mainly exist behind the Mists
There are other places we live we often come out from behind the mists to help people. We live in the boundary between body and spirit. This is not to say that we have no physical existence. We do, just as many of your myths attest. But our higher purpose is as GUARDIAN SPIRITS. Thus we do not try to display ourselves too much. But where there are dolphins and whales, you will find us -- if you know what to look for and how to look. Our ancient ancestral race of ATLANTIS raped this sacred godsend -- the sea. After we destroyed our civilization with our own abuses, those few who survived became cetaceans in the bosom of the Sea-Mother we had so abused.An ancient way of meeting us is related to SCRYING: reading fortunes by looking at the dancing waters of a natural spring, the sparkling distortions in clear ice, or the movements of sea creatures.
The wiser land folk realize that BODIES OF WATER ARE SACRED. If you dive into underwater coves and seek truth from the mysterious shifts of currents and light, you will hear the MOTHER'S HEART BEAT in the PULSES OF THE WAVES AND TIDES.
The Creator's sun radiates heat and energy, but without the MOTHERLY MODERATION OF THE SEA, all the earth would be burned and boiling much like the surfaces of Mercury and Venus. The ancients saw within the sea's pulsing tides the metaphores of LIFE, DEATH, and RESURRECTION. |
