In the beginning God created the heaven ad earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. it was in the Holy Bible in Genesis 1.

Mermaids in the Philippines A mermaids is just like an individual human being but they live a the sea. A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a human head and torso and the tail of an aquatic animal such as a fish or dolphin. The word is a compound of mere, the Old English word for "sea," and maid, a woman. The male equivalent is a merman, however the term mermaid

is sometimes used for males. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures, typically depicted without clothing. Much like Sirens, mermaids would sometimes sing to people and gods and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or run their ships aground. Other stories have them squeezing the life out of drowning men while attempting to rescue them. They are also said to take humans down to their underwater kingdoms. In Hans Christina Andersen's The Little Mermaidsit is said that they forget that humans cannot breathe underwater, while others say they drown men out of spite.The sirens of Greek myth are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as mermaid-like; in fact, some languages use the same word for both bird and fish creatures, such as the Maltese word 'sirena'. Other related types of mythical or legendary creature are water fairies (e.g. various water nymphs) and selkies animals that can transform themselves from seals to humans.

Mermaids in the Philippine "But she, with astounding vigor, emerged straight from the sea as far as the waist and put her arms around my neck, enveloping me in a scent I had never smelled before, then let herself slither into the boat: beneath her groin, beneath her gluteal muscles, her body was that of a fish, covered in minute scales of blue and mother-of-pearl, and ending in a forked tail which was slowly beating the bottom of the boat. She was a mermaid..."

Mermaids in the Philippines Myths and legends of "fish tailed humans" have risen from early attempts of man to explain the mysteries of nature and life. The Sirens of Greek mythology speak of creatures half-woman and half-bird that lured sailors to their death at sea. From this mythology evolved the legend of mermaids. Mermaids are often thought of as had omen. People in different countries usually have various interpretations of mermaids. In the Philippines they are thought to be water spirits or the descendants of fallen angels. Although they're only a creation of the imagination, there are several accounts of 'mermaids' found in the Nile in 1642 and in Borneo in 1771. The exact identity of these creatures is unknown. Another 'mermaid' which was displayed in the United States in 1882 proved to be a hoax: it was nothing but the upper torso of a monkey sewn to a tail of a salmon. In 1908, a dugong was exhibited in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was billed as the world's only genuine mermaid. The mermaid myth can be attributed partly, if not wholly, to a mysterious and unique animal called the dugong. Early explorers and seafarers journeying through the south eastern seas might have seen these unusual, elusive animals, and told of their encounter with half-human/half-fish creatures. The playful imagination of weary mariners who had stayed too long at sea was a factor in the enhancement of these mermaid stories. It was even said that sailors used dugongs as surrogate females at sea, giving rise to a tale of sailors capturing and marrying mermaids. Such perception on the dugong is strikingly common in many different cultures. Diego de Bobadilla in the 1700s said of the dugongs in the Philippines: "Some tried to assert that those fish were the sirens of the sea so celebrated among the poets; but they have nothing of [ the ]beauty in the face and of [thel voice that is attributed to sirens" (Blair and Robertson, 1950c).

The world had refused my well-formed creations, My love no reward for its smooth sympathy. I took my desire to sea for a lifetime, To find some small passion for this soul's release.  Discovered the truth as siren's eyes found me, Her song written for a forgotten sixth sense. My lover's warm touch gave me understanding; I followed her down to a quiet absence. A mermaids found her a swimming lad, picked him for her own, pressed her body, laughed, and plunging down forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown.

The line that wrote to the famous William Shakespeare in titling the "Love in Idleness" Since i was sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaids on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and inharmonious  breath  That the rude  sea grew  civil at her song. And certain star shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maids music.

In this line it was written by  Jane Yolen an artistic mind and full of imagination High on the rock, above the waves, Coaxing the sailors to water filled graves, The siren sings her solo part. Neither the rhythm nor yet the sound are the waters in which the bearer is drowned as testimony to her art. She sings far more than a sailor can hear. He listens once with a cynical ear and once with an innocent heart. Poets and writers desire such skill: That sirenlike we work our will On every reader's ear and heart.

Mermaids have been enduring symbols in myth and culture for thousands of years. Mermaids continue to have a very visible role in contemporary society in advertising, movies and our culture in general. Each year The Conney Island Mermaid Parade occurs the first Saturday after the summer solstice around the third week of June, hundreds of mermaids, Neptune's, mer-men and hundred of thousands of spectators descend upon Conney Island, New York to celebrate the beginning of Summer and the official opening of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Christopher Columbus from his diary and it was written in January 9, 1943. When the admiral was going to Rio del Oro, he said he saw three mermaids who came quit high out of the water but were not as pretty as we thought, for somehow in the face they look like men. He said that he saw some in Guinea on the cost of Manegueta.

The Sirens of today, including the mermaid that calls to us from almost every urban corner,claim a long and rich ancestry, that dates back to a multitude of fish-tailed gods and goddesses of some of man's earliest civilizations. The sea, as womb of creation and the source of unfathomable wisdom has always played an important role in world beliefs, particularly among maritime nations. The Gods of the sea are among some of the most powerful in history and their strength lives on in a host of submarine beings symbolic of the shifting, ever changing, dual nature of the sea as both life-giver and destroyer.In Greek mythology, sirens are sea nymphs who possess the bodies of birds and the heads of women, and are the daughters of the sea god Phorcys. Sirens had such sweet voices that it is said that mariners who heard their songs were lured into grounding their boats on the rocks on which the beautiful nymphs sang.