Mermaids
The Ancients
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The Importance of the Sea Nymphs Goes With It.
The greeks once called it the inhospitable sea, then called it the hospitable sea. At a majority of these cities we see evidence for devotion from the colonists to these sea nymphs and especially to thetus and her son, achilles. There is a tiny island in the northwest part of the black sea called luci or lefki, in modern greek, the white island. And it's covered with devotional objects left by sailors, of which the oldest ones are dedicated to phetus and achilles as thanks for safe travel into the black sea.
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