It's true that Mermaid The body found in Parangtritis, Yogyakarta

We've often heard about the dead mermaid hoax. But now in Indonesia found one dead mermaid. Residents call jenglot mermaid.

The bodies were found by Raden Penewu Surakso Tarwono or so called gatekeeper Mbah Nono southern sea coast, Parangtritis, Yogyakarta. Here's an excerpt from Dekrit.com

Mbah nono tells the origin of the discovery. As usual, on Thursday night (12/2) around 02:00 pm, accompanied by one of his colleagues who are also happy to undergo the ritual at Parangtritis named Riyan (40), though the inner Mbah Nono behavior in Kali Mati existing waterfront Parangtritis.

"When we are ritual on the beach, suddenly came a man dressed in white who comes from the sea provide a boat made of palm sharp. After handing the boat, he was just saying the words "buddy iki rumaten, this buddy take care". Men who like a cleric was walking on the water toward the sea and thrown off a boat.

"Oddly enough, shortly after both boats and men white berjambang swallow it vanished into the night with the boat," said Mbah Nono at length as he showed her the creeps when the two had to tell another strange incident ever experienced.

Even though it was a little bit nervous, Mbah Nono had the courage to ask for what is given to him sharp. At that time, Mbah Nono and his partner did not get any answers. Tall man with a huge all-white dress was just silence without saying a word.

It turns out the two are mutually mengkait sharp shut it contained only sand dune sea. A few moments after the clean up of sharp sand 35 cm long and 5 cm width was Mbah Nono was made gasped when he saw there was a form of mermaids in it.

After re-done tayuh, creature necklace on his neck with a string of flowers magnolia necessarily saying that he named Nyai Saidah derived from Cage Haur, Pelabuhan Ratu, West Java.

However, because of confusion how to save it, Mbah Nono then the corpse melarung to Pelabuhan Ratu so it comes back to its origin

Are Mermaids Real ?

Are mermaids real? maybe that's the thing that many ask someone, when they are curious and want to know many things about the mermaids.

According Lagenda, mermaid is a water creature has the head and body like a woman and a fishlike tail. Mermaids live in the ocean floor and said to be a daughter who had sworn him in half from the waist down to the legs into fish.

Stories about mermaids crowded discussed in almost all societies in the world. In Greek mythology, mermaids are always tempting to say the sailors were negligent. Who is tempted is doomed. Babylonian society is also worshiped as the God of mermaid or sea god known as Ea or Oannes.

Oannes is described as a merman.
Mermaids are also known as a character in a fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1836) by Hans Christian Andersen has been translated into various languages​​.

Mummified Mermaid Body Found

There are many mermaid stories from Japan, but this one story based on an ancient legend 1,400 years ago. One story that comes from the story of Shinto belief in Fujinomiya City near the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan.

To commemorate Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The famous, Little Mermaid statue in the harbor built in Copenhagen, Denmark. The statue was a port city icon. (Various sources)

In one of the Shinto shrine in Fujinomiya saved a 170 cm tall mermaid mummies 1,400 years old. This is one of the oldest and largest mummified mermaid who is still stored in Japan.

From the look creepy mermaid mummy shape, big-headed, round, and bald, just a lock of hair that grows in front of the head to the nose. Eyes and his mouth was open. He has a pair of hands with sharp nails (20 cm).

Half-human-like upper body and a half under the tail resembles a fish. However, the bone structure is not known exactly how the shape because it has not been studied.

Legends about mermaids monsters emerged during Japan's Crown Prince Shotoku (Shotoku Taishi) in the years 574-622 AD. Shotoku when it walked by the shores of Lake Biwa. When he withdrew suddenly emerged from the lake monster who call on Shotoku that he was a fisherman who was cursed into a mermaid bodied monster half man half fish, because in his past deeds that often kill animals to eat.

He admitted his mistake and wished to understand in order for it to be a warning to all people to refrain from killing animals. This message disampikan to the world in the future. Therefore the monsters ask her to do (after death later) dried and placed disebuah temple as a warning to mankind.

After delivering the messages that monster mermaids later died. Shotoku then reflect on the words and the mermaids dry into mummies. Upon request of the mermaid, the crown prince erected a temple to the mermaid mummies.

This mummy for 1,400 years to move hand until it finally placed in a Shinto shrine in Fujinomiya until now. The existence of these mummies connected with the belief that abstinence from killing animals aka vegetarian life style.

"Mermaids-mermaids" are Real
It is not known for sure if the legend about mermaids came from a true story or not. However based on scientific study in some waters in the past mermaids often told, it was inhabited by the animals specials.

Some special animals that are still living in freshwater or salt. Animals is often mistaken for mermaids. Perhaps because of his habit, shape and performance that is similar. Especially when viewed from a distance.

These animals are known as "dugong", "manatee" and "sea cow (sea cow)". All three species have a similar body shape, but living in different aquatic environments. Classified as mammals like feeding and basking on the rocks and the edges of the water, or complain and speak out.

Dugongs are herbivorous marine mammals. Can be found in the shallow coastal waters of India, the South Pacific (on the eastern coast of Africa to northern Australia), Papua coastal waters, and other islands in the Pacific. Dugong brown gray, his 2.7 meters long and can live up to 70 years of age.

Manatee. There are three types of known manatee. There is life in the Caribbean and along the southeast coast of South America.

There are in all coastal waters and estuaries Florida (U.S.), and a third type that live in freshwater rivers Amazon. There manatee that live in freshwater and saltwater. Manatee gray color, with a body length of 4 meters.

Sea cow (sea cow). First discovered and identified in 1741 near the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea. Sea cow typically likes to live in shallow waters near the shore. His size could be 7.6 meters long and the color is gray-brown with faint polka dot pattern.

Third aquatic animals who breastfeed their children is included in group order (group) water mammals called sirenian.

Naming groups of aquatic mammals is made based on the beliefs of ancient scientists (mythology) that sirenian animals is that once believed the sailors as sirens or mermaids.

Legend of Mermaid, Half Man Half Fish Creatures
For thousands of years mermaids have become legend. Believed to be the embodiment of half-human half-fish creature. From the western hemisphere to the east, north and south. Tales of mermaids coloring mythological treasures and mysteries of the ocean.

Based on the legend of the mermaid is a water creature half man and half his fish. Above the waist is usually shaped body and a beautiful woman waist down covered scales as large fish. The story of a mermaid is almost the same or similar in any hemisphere, so he became a universal klegenda.

Judging from Greek mythology, is believed to be the beautiful mermaid sailor teaser. Who is the mermaid he seduced seduction is doomed. But the Babylonians considered as god of the sea mermaid known as Ea or Oannes. But this is a male mermaid.

Another ancient mythology (Greek and Roman) also mentions that the mermaid is a creature that accompanies some sort of sea gods Poseidon, Neptune and Triton. Dugong-dugong is generally a female-bodied creature with a face beautiful girl, busty plump, glowing, but from the waist to the bottom like a fish tail.

First appeared in the mermaid mythology in Assyria (1000 BC). Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen, Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a shepherd, but then he was killed because of his love rejected. Feeling embarrassed he jumped into the lake and turned into fish. In the transformation redeem shame he turned into a mermaid.

Then at the time of 500 BC, the story of a mermaid heard again from a philosopher from Ionia (Greek region) named Anaximander. He argues that humans originated from a single species of aquatic animals. This was later referred to as the evolution of aquatic animals to humans. This opinion was regarded as a justification that the mermaid is a water animal that evolved into a human being.

Once the popularity of these mermaids, so it is listed in the parchment and old manuscripts. That the records of Alexander the Great, ruler of Macedonia, (356-323 BC) mermaid story also tucked in there. Alexander's sister named Thessalonike mentioned turned into a mermaid after her death.

Mermaid legends and stories are scattered everywhere. Narrated by sailors and ocean explorers. Generally described as a beautiful woman mermaid fish tail, long hair, melodious voice, loves to bask in the reef and beach. But there is no definitive evidence regarding its existence. Archives except in the form of ancient sketches and drawn in the currency of the Corinthian (Greek).

But there is many a book published in 1718 in Amsterdam Netherlands, a peeling on the life of various animals in the Indian Ocean. The book comes article description, various sketches and drawings. In this book there is a detailed record about mermaids:

"There is a tangible monster woman half fish, caught in the waters of Amboyna (cluster of islands of Maluku, Indonesia).

Based on the measurements has the body along 59 inches (147.5 cm), shaped like sea eel (moa). This creature lived for only 103 hours (4.5 days) after the arrest, and death in the aquarium. During his confinement fed small fish and other seafood, but he did not respond to the food. "

Presumably mermaid is still a mystery. Believed to exist, but the evidence seen until now had never sure about the existing form of mermaid legends. The experts even concluded that the possibility that mermaids are aquatic mammals known as dugongs, sea cow and manatee (sea cow), which disalahtafsir by sailors of the past.

The famous fairy tale Mermaid
Although many had feared by sailors, it turns out the story about the mermaid is also interesting for the children. The famous fairy tale about a mermaid who are a product of the world storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.

Andersen works entitled "The Little Mermaid (1836)" became the most popular fairy tales about mermaids and has been translated into various languages. In fact this story has been filmed in a cartoon version of the same title by Walt Disne, but with little change at the end.

Andersen original version, adapting the story of a mermaid who became patron who always ends in misery. Story about a mermaid who is obsessed with life on land and attracted to a prince. To be able to turn into a man he must be willing to lose his voice (mute). However, after becoming man, the prince did not love him because he is mute. Eventually the mermen can not enjoy life and despair.

Mermaids the body found in the Philippines

Mermaid myths and legends have risen from earlier attempts to explain the mysteries of human nature and life. Greek mythology speaks of creatures half-woman and half fish lure sailors since centuries ago. Of this mythology evolved into a mermaid legend.

Although they are only the creation of the imagination, but there are some facts about mermaids found in the Nile in 1642 and in Borneo in 1771. In 1908, there was an exhibition in Johannesburg dugong is recognized as the only mermaid original discovery in the world. While the mermaid is published in the U.S. in 1882 was to be a joke, because it proved that it was engineered body of a monkey sewn onto the tail of the salmon.

Early explorers in the colonial era may have seen dugong (mermaid) on its way south through the eastern sea and will tell the story of their encounter creatures half-human half-fish. By some, it is considered part of the fantasy redundant sailors from exhaustion due to prolonged stay in the boat so as to create an image of a mermaid.

Cultures in other countries usually have a variety of different interpretations of this particular creature. In the Philippines they are considered descendants of water spirits or angels that fell from the sky.

Diego de Bobadilla in the 1700s said about dugongs are found in the Philippines: "Some have tried to assert that it is the siren sea fish that can be celebrated among the poets, but they do not have what is called the beauty in the face of the creature.".

A Pair of Mermaids the Body Found in Wasior

Community Wasior, Wondama Bay District, Monday (17/12/2012), around 10.00 CET, were surprised by the appearance of two-tailed mermaid on the beach near the sea port Wasior. The phenomenon was shocked other residents living around the appearance of the fish.

Diverse interpretations of residents also appear. Most people think this is a sign of the emergence of natural fish that bring a bad message. However, not a few people who think the presence of these fish are a good sign.

Simon Suabey (42), a resident of Wasior, said as a human being can not predict natural fluctuation that will occur in the future. "For better or worse we can just wait. Due still recall 2010 earlier flood disasters, we must always be vigilant," he said.

Meanwhile, Agus Auri (26), a resident of another Wasior, say, when viewed from the side of science, the animal is probably one of them would die so they look for a place that can be visited. The reason, according to Agus, this animal has a different behavior such as mermaids who will die should look for shallow land.

The discovery of two-tailed mermaid could be followed up by environmental activists from Worldlife Wild Fund (WWF) local. However, residents Wasior ban fish were transferred to a variety of reasons. Until the evening, the two-tailed mermaid still be around the harbor Wasior.