My stellar wall by Shweta Thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2019-04-05 01:01:34 UTC 2023-02-06 08:22:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Assignment 2: Mermaids (Sirens) shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348765526 SHWETA THAKUR - WORKING INDIVIDUALLY. ]]> 2019-04-05 01:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348765526 Post #2: Video shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348765938 Description: The video below raises a real good question i.e. Whether mermaids exist or not?
Connection: This video connects to the AGENTICITY reason for belief. Humans have had faith in the existence of mermaids since the beginning even without seeing them. They have been seen in so many cave paintings and ancient texts. ]]> 2019-04-05 01:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348765938 Post #3: Video shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348771638 Description: This video tries to unfold the truth behind the myth of mermaids aka sirens.
The first mermaid according to legends is Atargatis, the ancient Syrian goddess of the sea who was once a powerful priestess, who like the little mermaid fell in love with a human. Then comes Ea, the mesopotamian god of water, first known merman who saved humanity from the flood sent by the God Enlil.]]> 2019-04-05 01:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348771638 Post #4: Video shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348775407 Description: In Greek Mythology, Sirens were dangerous creatures, who baited close-by mariners with their captivating music and performing voices to wreck on the rough shoreline of their island. Roman writers set them on some little islands called Sirenum Scopuli. In some later, excused customs, the strict geology of the "elegant" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: now and again on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, close Paestum, or in Capreae. All such areas were encompassed by cliffs and rocks.]]> 2019-04-05 01:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348775407 Post #5: Website shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348777126 In spite of the fact that a Sophocles part makes Phorcys their father when Sirens are named, they are as a rule as girls of the waterway god Achelous, with Terpsichore, Melpomene, Calliope or Sterope. In Euripides' play, Helen, Helen in her anguish calls upon "Winged ladies, girls of the Earth (Chthon)." Although they tricked sailors, the Greeks depicted the Sirens in their "glade featured with blossoms" and not as ocean divinities. Roman essayists connected the Sirens all the more near the ocean, as girls of Phorcys. Sirens are found in numerous Greek stories, remarkably in Homer's Odyssey.]]> 2019-04-05 01:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348777126 Post #6: Where do they live? shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348779207 In old stories, a mermaid is an amphibian animal with the head and chest area of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids show up in the fables of numerous societies around the world, including the Near East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The principal stories showed up in antiquated Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis changed herself into a mermaid out of disgrace for incidentally murdering her human sweetheart. Mermaids are now and then connected with risky occasions, for example, floods, tempests, wrecks, and drownings. In other people customs (or here and there inside a similar convention), they can be kindhearted or useful, giving shelters or going gaga for people.]]> 2019-04-05 02:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348779207 Post #7 Sightings shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348779655 In 1493, cruising off the shoreline of Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus revealed seeing three "female structures" which "ascended high out of the ocean, yet were not as delightful as they are represented". The logbook of Blackbeard, an English privateer, records that he taught his team on a few voyages to control far from graphed waters which he called "captivated" inspired by a paranoid fear of merfolk or mermaids, which Blackbeard himself and individuals from his group announced seeing. These sightings were regularly described and shared by mariners and privateers who trusted that mermaids brought misfortune and would entice them into surrendering their gold and hauling them to the base of the ocean. Two sightings were accounted for in Canada close Vancouver and Victoria, one from at some point somewhere in the range of 1870 and 1890, the other from 1967. A Pennsylvania angler revealed five sightings of a mermaid in the Susquehanna River close Marietta in June 1881. 

In August 2009, after many individuals detailed seeing a mermaid jumping out of Haifa Bay waters and doing flying traps, the Israeli waterfront town of Kiryat Yam offered a $1 million honour for verification of its existence. In February 2012, take a shot at two repositories close Gokwe and Mutare in Zimbabwe ceased when labourers wouldn't keep, expressing that mermaids had bothered them far from the destinations. It was accounted for by Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, the water assets minister.]]> 2019-04-05 02:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348779655 Post #8: Are they Evil shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348780923 Sirens Swimming Underwater: MERMAID PHANTOM SWIMS AT NIGHT! Submerged Lake Michigan Footage of a genuine Professional Mermaid was taken in the mid-year of 2018. This video was caught as she was swimming indiscriminately through the water on a quiet, starry evening. It has for quite some time been informed that mermaids are animals to be dreaded. While a few stories will have you trust that these monsters are cordial and supportive, many recount their actual nature... 

In stories from an earlier time, mariners took alert when taking off into the sea or ocean because of the dread of experiencing a mermaid. The homicidal half-fish, half-human animals that we frequently allude to as alarms were the prominent delineation of mermaids quite a while in the past. Mermaids and cutting edge alarms alike are said to draw men off of their boats and into the water, where they meet their death. 

The video film caught here demonstrates the dim and frightening side of Mermaid Phantom. An earlier idea to be an agreeable, mysterious mermaid, Phantom is by all accounts appearing and more indications of the alarming blood that courses through her veins. Or then again maybe it is the murkiness of the satanic stories from which her persona was birthed that are at long last grabbing hold...]]> 2019-04-05 02:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348780923 Post #9: Scientific Opinion shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348781683 In the middle of the 17th century, John Tradescant the elder created a wunderkammer (called Tradescant's Ark) in which he displayed, among other things, a "mermaid's hand". P. T. Barnum's 19th-century taxidermal hoax called the Fiji mermaid has been mentioned above. Others have perpetrated similar hoaxes, which are usually papier-mâché fabrications or parts of deceased creatures, usually monkeys and fish, stitched together for the appearance of a grotesque mermaid. In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, pictures of Fiji "mermaids" circulated on the Internet as supposed examples of items that had washed up amid the devastation, though they were no more real than Barnum's exhibit.

The topic of mermaids has arisen in several instances of scientific scrutiny, including a biological assessment of the unlikelihood of the supposed evolutionary biology of the mermaid on the popular marine science website, DeepSeaNews. Five of the primary reasons listed as to why mermaids don't fit current evolutionary understanding include:
 1) thermoregulation (adaptations for regulating body heat)
 2) evolutionary mismatch
 3) reproductive challenges
 4) digestive differences between mammals and fish
 5) lack of physical evidence.
 Mermaids were also visited in a tongue-in-cheek scientific article by University of Washington emeritus oceanographer Karl Banse. His article was written as a parody, but mistaken as a true scientific exposé by believers as it was published in a scientific journal.]]> 2019-04-05 02:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348781683 Post 10: Various names shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348782536 1. JAPAN // NINGYO

2. SCOTLAND AND ORKNEY ISLANDS // SELKIE

3. AFRICA // MAMI WATA

4. BRAZIL // IARA

5. NEW ZEALAND // MARAKIHAU

6. FRANCE // MELUSINE

7. IRELAND // MERROW

8. RUSSIA // RUSALKA

9. NORWAY AND ORKNEY ISLANDS // FINFOLK



]]> 2019-04-05 02:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348782536 Post #11: shweta_thakur https://padlet.com/shweta_thakur/iupfkaf894g5/wish/348783300 1. Probably the earliest legends of mermaids originate from antiquated Syria. The antiquated story goes back to around 1000 B.C., barely 3,000 years prior! In the Syrian story, a goddess named Atargatis. Mermaids weren't generally thought of as the excellent animals that we imagine today. Ordinarily, mariners would confuse manatees with mermaids, bringing about depictions that named the amphibian animals as terrible and fat. Mermaids were regularly viewed as an awful sign. Also, in the event that they were spotted by mariners adrift, it more often than not implied that the voyage was set out toward inconvenience.
2. An incident about an early explorer really peaked my interest in mermaids and their existence in the oceans.
Henry Hudson was famously the first European to sail up the river and explore the bay that both now bear his name. In 1608, Hudson noted in his logbook that a few of his crew had spotted a mermaid swimming close to the ship’s side looking up at them.

The sailors claimed that from the navel up “her back and breasts were like a woman’s” but when she dove under the water “they saw her tail, which was like the tail of a porpoise.”

3.The most interesting thing that i found out was that they have superpowers like immortality,  seeing the future, telepathy & hypnosis.

4. I am going to remember the horrific stories from the voyagers who have been sank into a deadly trap by calming and melodious voice of the sirens, lead into a trap and never mad it back.

5. Most harmful would be Ideology and the least harmful would be emotional connection.

6. Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.
this is the moto I live by and would surely pass it on to all of my family and closest friends so that they can make their lives easier by loving themselves and not needing anyone else's acceptance.
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