Preta
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Huyo niliyekuelekeza ndio hasa Nguva mwenyewe, huyo uliyemuweka wewe, ni samaki wa kwenye ngano au simulizi za kale (myth), hakuna kiumbe ambaye ni nusu mtu nusu samaki (Mermaid or Merman)salam aleykum....nashukuru sana kwa kunielekeza hapo ulipoelezea huyo samaki.....lakini huyu kwenye picha si ndio anaitwa dugong...View attachment 32671..............mimi nilikuwa namuongelea huyu anayeitwa mermaid.........huyuView attachment 32672
Ancient Near East
The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. The goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal shepherd and unintentionally killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid-human above the waist, fish below-though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo. Prior to 546 BC, the Milesian philosopher Anaximander proposed that mankind had sprung from an aquatic species of animal. He thought that humans, with their extended infancy, could not have survived otherwise.