She is generally considered a vengeful goddess (why, I cannot fathom) and hunters (men) must placate and pray to her to release the sea animals from the ocean depth for their hunt. Seal hunters and fishermen come to depend on her good will for a successful hunt/catch in a bitter twist of fate. She then slides into the sea of which she then become the goddess. Because, despite being very badly abused, Sedna is really really cool, her severed fingers turn into seals, walruses and whales. In every story, her father - or sometimes other men - take her out to sea to drown her, she then tries to cling on to the side of the boat and her angered manfolk chop off her fingers so she lets go( yes, really). Sedna usually does something to anger her father like reject a suitor, try to eat her parents, marry a dog, or be generally dissatisfied with men. Many versions of the story exist, all of them very gruesome. Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals. And from that day on, no one emasculated himself anymore (strangely, no one fancied being a one handed enuch - but just enuch was fine.) He commanded that anyone who emasculated himself should have a hand cut off. By the third century A.D, one of the kings thought that might be a little extreme and counter productive so he banned the self-castration. Men worshipped her so that they castrated themselves in her honour (which is a bit odd, I wonder who started that). She became the goddess of the moon, feminine power and all water. The gods, however, would not let her great beauty disappear so did not let her die but instead transformed her into the first ever creature with the top half of a woman and the bottom half of a fish. Unfortunately, Atargatis accidentally caused the death of her beloved and, in her sadness, drowned herself. She fell in love with a shepherd called Hadad and bore him a daughter, who would later become a great queen and build the hanging gardens of Babylone. In this study, we will attempt to collect the largest number of folk myths and folktales associated with fish in Bahrain, and to compare them to similar tales and legends from other parts of the Arabian Gulf.Atargatis was a great goddess for Northern Syria (ancient Assyria) 4000 years ago and the first mermaid. The folktale’s role is not limited to the explanation of a phenomenon, it also includes a lesson and wisdom some tales were reduced to a proverb that serves the same purpose. Some folk myths were attempts to explain phenomena that sailors witnessed but did not understand, so they tried to explain them with fictional tales or legends. In the Arabian Gulf, folk memory abounds with knowledge associated with fish many legends, anecdotes and proverbs are associated with types of fish in Bahrain and throughout the Gulf. The dugong is known as a sea cow in the Arabian Gulf, a name mentioned in books of Arab heritage. Its ancient scientific name is Halicore, which is derived from two Greek words meaning ‘sea nymph’, not ‘sea bride’. The myth of the sea girl was based on the dugong. Some of these myths made their way into the folk culture of Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf, resulting in a legendary creature known as ‘Bu Draya'.Ĭommon people in Bahrain and the Gulf believe in the existence of ‘Bu Draya', which originated with a creature known in Persian as the ‘King of Draya’ (the king of the sea). Some have even connected these myths to the dugong or sea cow. The ‘bride of the sea’ and the ‘sea nymph’ are terms that do not exist in Arab heritage they were invented by common people and made popular by the media. These myths evolved when stories were written down, and secondary legends were created from the old ones. These myths originated with the seal, specifically the monk seal. In Arab heritage, there are water nymphs and mermaids that are similar to the Draya in Persian heritage, to the mermaids and mermen of Western culture, and to the Sirens of Greek mythology. In books about heritage and mythology, we find different legendary creatures that are part human and part sea creature. Every culture includes people who do not believe in the existence of these mythical creatures, but there are always others who believe in their existence, especially since myths have become part of the collective folk memory. They can be found in all known cultures, and each culture has at least one specific mythical creature. Mythical creatures, mythological animals and mythical beings are widely spread concepts.
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