Mermaids
The Ancients
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What Do We Know About Sea Nymphs?
In late antiquity, the worship of sea nymphs as a aspect of polytheism and traditional greek religion is wiped out by christianity in a very systematic way. The majority of temples are either abandoned or torn down. However, belief in the existence of mermaids continues throughout the middle ages and up unti the modern era. They become associated with the sirens, mythical bird women who somehow develop fishy tails and take to the sea. And so the gor gon medusa and the gorgons of snaky hair change into these half female, half fish creatures of the sea. But if they ask you, does alexander the great still live and rule,
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