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Artwork by Danish artist Malene Laugesen titled “Sirène”
THE MERMAID’S MIRROR Often seen as a sign of sin, or as representing the planet Venus, also represents the mermaid’s ability to see through the veil that separates the visible and spirit worlds, according to folklore # MythologyMonday Books of Hours
Inversion
https://twitter.com/Tatiana19796/status/1227881233671229440
https://twitter.com/Tatiana19796/status/1227544955947814915
https://twitter.com/WowTerrifying/status/1690280852658298880
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlHsmePxf8&t=91s
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sirens&crid=33SUVD4PGLU8W&sprefix=sirens%2Caps%2C94&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)
Another connection with this love letter theme above.
Reading “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” which is pretty good. Basically a history of famous hacks (mirai, morris etc) from a philosopher with CS background.
Bringing it up because there’s a love letter theme here, even from infancy. Viruses named after women.
I want to call some of these techno Siren examples.
ILOVEYOU virus, malware with email attachment ILOVEYOU and a body “kindly check the LOVELETTER coming from me” which was a .vbs script. Opening would send the email to the users entire contact list, also deleting all images files it could find. It also hid music files, creating new files with the same name that were actually .vbs files - the actual malware. Proto form of ILY virus was Melissa virus, famously named after a stripper.
My original document did have catfish as an example, but this is interesting in text form and destructive potential.
I also like the inversion that it suppresses song by masking all of the music files, instead turning them into focus and spread of ILOVEYOU.
Tareda
he knew he was captivated by the illusion that she sang to him and alone and understand and accepted everything in his heart, meanwhile a hundred other men and women in the same room believed she sang to them alone and accepted in their hearts with her undivided attention
“From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein. They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations had an identical dream. They saw a woman running at night through an unknown city; she was seen from behind, with long hair, and she was naked. They dreamed of pursuing her. As they twisted and turned, each of them lost her. After the dream they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another; they decided to build a city like the one in the dream. In laying out the streets, each followed the course of his pursuit; at the spot where they had lost the fugitive’s trail, they arranged spaces and walls differently from the dream, so she would be unable to escape again. This was the city of Zobeide, where they settled, waiting for that scene to be repeated one night. None of them, asleep or awake, ever saw the woman again. The city’s streets were streets where they went to work every day, with no link any more to the 45 dreamed chase. Which, for that matter, had long been forgotten. New men arrived from other lands, having had a dream like theirs, and in the city of Zobeide, they recognized something of the streets of the dream, and they changed the positions of arcades and stair- ways to resemble more closely the path of the pursued woman and so, at the spot where she had vanished, there would remain no avenue of escape. The first to arrive could not understand what drew these people to Zobeide, this ugly city, this trap.”
Italo Calvino from Invisible Cities.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43zaxd/sirens-greek-mythology-women-death?utm_source=reddit.com
https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/The_Siren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl2L4v6ecM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2F9ZdVIPM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hbU-rbyDZEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVQFRJFge3E
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SirensAreMermaids
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurSirensAreDifferent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6fRCupGH2Q
Jibaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbMSqMWMC4&list=WL&index=20
Hulder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZXKoUgTXA&list=WL&index=21&t=13s
https://twitter.com/Titania2468/status/1639284543508054018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atargatis
La Belle Dame sans Merci
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery’s song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Powler
Ensorcelled
Glamour
Honeypot,
Version where girl is actually a monster but so attractive to eye of beholder.
Shallow hal.
the dauphin
https://twitter.com/curiousordinary/status/1658414041692536833
In JapaneseFolklore mermaids are known as ningyo. Unlike European mermaids, they look more like fish than humans and are considered far more monstrous than beautiful. In some cases they are believed to foretell the future. Their flesh is said to give… FairyTaleTuesday 1/3
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…eternal life, but most people won’t take the risk as ningyo can put powerful curses on those who try to catch or kill them. There are some legends of towns being destroyed by earthquakes or tsunamis after fisherman had caught ningyo. To be safe, it is best to do… 2/3
…whatever you can to avoid any encounters with ningyo. More ningyo art below.
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A ningyo from Toriyama Sekien’s Konjaku Hyakki Shui.
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‘Ningyo’ - Katsushika Hokusai, 1808.
Art in the previous tweet by Matthew Meyer.
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MERMAID’S TAIL A mermaid’s tail prevents access to her ‘lady parts’ but early depictions show mermaids with provocatively parted twin tails, suggesting that these bawdy deities could take human lovers! FairytaleTuesday Books of Hours; C17th Italian twin-tailed mermaids
First mermaid gives birth to Tom Thumb, mouse’s skin shoes fashionista and resident of horse’s ear.
All other mermaids give birth to Hazelnut Children, diamond owners, horse climbers and stork riders.
The Sirens, 1892, by John Longstaff
Sirens (1900) by Sir James Jebusa Shannon (Anglo-American artist, lived 1862–1923).
‘Not even the most ridiculously cautious mariner .. need be concerned to steer clear of sirens so benevolent and so bewitching.’ - Evening Standard, 1900.
https://philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/marcel-duchamp-etant-donnes
You get the bride, a bride that you cannot obtain because she is behind the door and all you get is the two peepholes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7C69HqnV8s&list=WL&index=160
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3395184/
spring
** Siren eyes https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/61336/1/going-prey-mode-girls-cute-animals-online-canthal-tilt-tiktok
At the same time, a girl-coded trend emerged, encouraging participants to record the difference between their “doe eyes” and “siren eyes”. Same dualism, but with some self-reflexivity. A crucial difference: the girlies prized both doe and siren in equal part, because of the knowledge that either play can be useful in the art of persuasion. Try it yourself: Do you look appropriately conniving when you’re going in for the kill? Irresistibly cute when you want to be eaten up?
Film: Suzhou River example
Frederic Leighton - The Fisherman and the Syren, 1858.
Melusine
Mélusine or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a lamia or a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.
The French Dictionnaire de la langue française suggests the Latin melus, meaning “melodious, pleasant”.
The Romans of Partenay or of Lusignen: Otherwise known as the Tale of Melusine
Jean d’Arras collected this, as told by women spinning sewing machines.
Elinas, The king of Albany (an old name for Scotland) goes hunting in the forest to cope with the death of his wife, with whom he had one son. He comes across the Well of Thirst and meets a beautiful fay named Pressine. The two fall in love, but only if he vows to never see her when she births or bathes the children. He agrees and they marry.
She gives birth to three daughters, name Melusine, Melior, and Palatine and the king looks, and the three daughters move to the lost isle of Avalon.
The sisters grow up in Avalon, looking at each morning to the kingdom that would have been their home. Hearing about the father’s broken promise, his daughters lock him with this riches in a mountain Brandelois.
Pressine becomes enraged when she learns what her daughters have done for despite breaking his promise, Elinas was her husband and the triplets’ father. To punish her daughters for killing their own father, Pressine imprisons Palatine in the same mountain as Elinas, seals Melior inside a castle for all her life, and banishes Melusine, the instigator, from Avalon and also cursing her to take the form of a two-tailed serpent from the waist down every Saturday. If a man ever marries Melusine, he must never see her on Saturdays: if he keeps the oath, Melusine will live a contented life with him, but if he breaks it and violates her privacy, she will stay a serpent and appear to the Noble House in her monstrous form and spend three days lamenting whenever a descendant dies or the fortress changes hands.
Melusine settles near a stream in France. A distraught count Raymondin comes across her after accidentally killing his uncle. They fall in love, and he proposes but she makes another promise never to be seen on Saturday. For ten years they keep this promise, and she has children with him.
But he grows suspicious of her absence every Saturday and breaks his promise to peak into her chamber, where he sees a bathing half-serpent form. He keeps his transgression a secret, until one of their now-adult sons murders his brother. In front of his court, the grieving Raymondin blames Melusine and calls her a “serpent.” She then assumes the form of a dragon, provides him with two magic rings, and flies off, never to be seen again. She returns only at night to nurse her two youngest children, who are still infants.
German Influence
In his Table Talk, Martin Luther mentioned Melusina of Lucelberg (Luxembourg), whom he described as a succubus or the devil. Luther attributed stories like Melusine to the devil appearing in female form to seduce men.
In a legend set in the forest of Stollenwald, a young man meets a beautiful woman named Melusina who has the lower body of a snake. If he will kiss her three times on three consecutive days, she will be freed. However, on each day she becomes more and more monstrous, until the young man flees in terror without giving her the final kisses. He later marries another girl, but the food at their wedding feast is mysteriously poisoned with serpent venom and everyone who eats it dies
