Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Actually mermaids are actual African deities, which became Europeanized with the role of colonization. Mermaids are also apart of Assaryian cultures and many other cultures in the world. Essentially, people take a culture’s god/goddesses, re interpret them for their culture and give them a new name. Nothing is really new under the sun, rather just repackaged.
Feel free to use the Google machine about African mermaid deities.
Sure, the Danes had no stories of their own, no culture of their own, they could only take an African water goddess who can walk on land and change her into a mermaid (a siren) who wants to walk in land and sells her voice to do it. Sure.