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Legends of human fish and archaeological findings

The most primeval reference to a human figure with fish's tail dates far back into 5000 BC. Latest archaeological findings reveal that there was a freaky god with fish's tail among the range of gods workshipped by Babylonians. This god called "Owannesse" was characterised by a strange body with an upper part of man and a lower part that carried perfect resemblance to a fish's tail.

This eerie mermaid god is seen illustrated on the inscribed tablets of stone and is considered on extremely sacred symbol of divine power. Several references to "Owannesse" occur in Arabian folklore which make allusions to people who were constantly worshipping the mermaid god in the far distant past.

The Louvre Museum of Paris still lays out the evidence which prove that the worship of "Owannesse" was widespread in the ancient world.

The biblical reference to the god of "Daagon" with fish's tail unveils the fact that high level of divine power had been ascribed to mermaids centuries after the antediluvian period.

Mermaids

The Jathaka tales describe mermaids living both in water and jungles. They lived, according to such tales, in jungles in pairs and were in the habit of couple dancing which is well illustrated by Chanda Kinnara Jathaka. These creatures were clearly distinguishable from their ocean counterparts because they were land inhabitants who had something something like bird's claws instead of fish's tail to stand. This clearly shows that there were many kinds of mermaids illustrated and were typically defined by the place they lived in.

The origin and the presumed existence of these mysterious creatures fall beyond the boundaries of human understanding and reasoning. As most of the sightings of mermaids have remained unexplained in spite of thorough investigations, some others say that they might be some form of aliens or products of paranormal.

In the earliest stages of development as anthropologists say, some humans might have migrated to coastal regions in quest of new types of food and plants which grew lushly in the shallow sea.

For considerably a long time, humans had been diving underwater for edible sea weeds. This might have given birth to the possibility that these human creatures", through millions of years, grew accustomed to life in the water and gradually developed physical changes needed for life in the sea. Anthropological studied show that, in comparison to the highly perplexing changes that have come about in creatures in the course of biological evolution, it is sensible to conclude that mermaids have evolved from earliest humans who had moulded their life to the life underwater. And scientists too offer a powerful justification to this conclusion.

It is sometimes chronic of us to reject the earliest legends involving mythical creatures such as dinosaurs, but scientific and archaeological explorations reveal that they really existed on earth based on fossil discoveries. Therefore, the mythical animals who gave birth to the legends and depictions on the prehistoric caves must have existed in any other form even though they have gone into extinction through the activities of humans and natural disasters.

Oceanographers think that these ocean creatures might be snuggling covertly somewhere in the deep waters.

They might appear on the water surface unexpectedly, baffle people with sights they have never seen, show momentary swimming movements and disappear in to the deep. Oceanographers are not prepared to accept the common belief that even the single sign of mermaids has been wiped out from the surface of the earth.

Challenged

The oceanographers are positive about the possibility of mermaids existing in the deep recesses of the sea even if the belief in the existence of some form of mermaids has been adamantly challenged. Although much scientific research has been carried out the final conclusion has made it clear that the presence of mermaids in any form is beyond the scope of general scientific understanding.

However, oceanographic studies show that the potential for the existence of mermaids is far greater than that of non existence of these sea creatures. Scientists have rejected the general tendency to regard strange sightings of mermaids as stark myth because there are many more regions, varieties of strange animals and plants hitherto unexplored by man in different parts of the world.

According as oceanographers affirm, much less of the great sea has been grasped by the human research and many varieties of unidentified or unknown fish still live in the great depths of the sea.

A spectacular find was made by some fisherman in Saudi Arabia somewhere in 1981.

They saw an eccentrically unfamiliar fish with human legs which had been washed ashore following a fatal accident that had seriously damaged its legs. Oceanographers in Saudi Arabia focused their highest attention to this sea creature because it had the upper part of a fish and a lower part with human legs. Japanese and Saudi Arabian newspapers gave a resounding publicity to this strange find.

The newspapers carried absorbingly interesting reports with headlines which claimed that the mermaid fish had died in efforts by naval officers to capture the creature by using a fishing hook in the deep sea.

The Saudi Arabian media denounced that Saudi officials were too slow to make arrangements to preserve the mermaids's body for further investigations.

By the time the valuable news of the priceless captive reached the world through media, the corpse of the amazing human fish had long been lying rotten on the shore.

Thus the biological researchers missed a valuable thing which could have unravelled mysteries and much more about the inner mechanism and evolution of mermaids.

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