I just found this so fascinating. The Wikipedia article isn't really necessary with imagination though, it's been deleted unsurprisingly. 'Split-tailed sirens' aren't really seen very much in contemporary culture anymore. Possibly because it's a weird Puritan-hedonism sort of culture we have going on in Western society. That logo is getting more and more boring and simplified. At this rate her tail will be gone and there will be nothing but a face.
I think mermaids now are closer to being a cross between friendly non-scary sirens and Poseidon's Nereid daughters without all the jealousy and vindictiveness.
I mean, they don't really seem to be drowning men and eating them anymore for fun and laughs. Or even viciously maiming young women and tormenting them out of pure jealousy and contempt either.
Turning into seals, those are selkie, and wasn't there a related myth...something along the lines of fish head and female lower half? I'm pretty sure, it's really kind of hilarious actually. I don't know very much about the mythology of mermaids.
Due in no small part to Hans Christian Anderson and Disney glamourizing the whole thing once and for all. I'm trying to remember what the old story about the mermaid's skins being stolen, and her being left as one of us boring human females was called.
If it even had an actual title, there's variations on it with her being a goddess and so on. But the basic premise never really changes.
Okay, bedtime!
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