Mermaids and Mermen? Worldwide Interest in The Mers Through History

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Being a Mermaid, and being one of the few who have ever made any sort of contact with humans puts me in a rather unique position, and brings many questions that I pose to Ocean, the human I communicate with.
Of course, only to combine our strengths, ideally, to find a way to save our shared Planet, Sea, have I come forward, and only urgently would I ever.
Our history - the parallel worlds of The Mers and of humans, has never converged, and only very few sightings by some very lucky humans have convinced some of you that we actually exist.
The Mers, since humans behavior has been so suicidal against their - our- own home, our only planet - have studiously avoided contact, but we have studied you, much as you might study a subject that did not particularly interest you, but was necessary to your own survival to learn about.

I have no idea why you humans are so apparently obsessed with the idea of Mers, unless it has to do with the fact that - as yet - there is no proof that we exist, except in human imagination.

And - why do humans imagine fairytale beings at all?

Well, first of all, as a Mermaid, I can tell you that we are not obsessed with humans in the same way. Most obviously, because we know for sure that you exist!

So, let's say we take away the mystery about the existence of the Mers conclusively - not that we will ever let that happen, but...for the sake of this discussion - it still seems obvious that, given the prevalence of your myths and legends spanning the range of behaviors attributed to us Mers, there might even be more obsession with us.

And, as we suspect, most likely, annoying us, chasing us, and attempting to photograph and film us would become the number one human occupation.

So, now that you understand that we do not want to be among you for many, many reasons, we can go back to our ideas of why humans are interested in the Mers.

Not that fish aren’t fascinating - all of us - but there is that pesky resemblance to humans, that even Mers admit to, so there is the most obvious reason for our constant appearance in your bodies of mythologies from nations all over the world.

And, the silence from Mers, except for our singing that humans hear on occasion, allows the innate human quality of creation to fill in the blanks with whatever is in his or her head at the time, so myths abound in both directions - having Mers be good or bad, according to the story.

Naturally you find us beautiful and handsome, since we do resemble humans above the waist.

And, I must admit our voices are lovely, without exception. It’s just part of being a Mer. And did you know that all fish talk and sing? Yes, and many other fish species sing with great ability.

Humans are amazingly myopic. Egocentrism is the norm, and it’s used by humans all too often in order to objectify other beings in order to visit cruelty upon them.

Do you understand why we have so little to do with your specie?

At times, having seen us - male and female - seated upon rocks or sandy islets, engaged in one of our necessary occupations like combing out our tresses, I suppose the idea of the vanity of the Mers has become attached to us - quite unfairly!

Imagine the tangles we must endure!

Fashioning combs out of shells or even using combs found on the sea floor and using them is a mundane and necessary task for us, but we are often perceived as vain and petty. We are far from thinking about how gorgeous or hunky we are when we’re merely making our manes manageable!

Oh, the things that have been said!

We’re individuals, as are humans and as are members of every specie.

Some are more into themselves than others, of course, but usually, we’re just living our lives, humming to ourselves and enjoying the sunshine on our scales - and holding our breath, of course - our water, that is, since we breathe water, and can only sit in the air for brief times!

So, it’s necessary to put oneself in others’ shoes - or, fins - via empathy - for either the Mers or the humans to attempt to understand each other.

I will continue to transmit on this subject as we go along.

For now, though, I’m off for a brisk swim!

All Mermaids and Mermen are Vegan Fish

I just thought I'd point this rather obvious fact out, but, being Mers, meaning the breed of fish that we are, Mermaids and Mermen, we are among the groups of fish who are Vegan.
It seems so obvious, given our sleek builds and athletic prowess, doesn't it?
Also, since we roam the Seas doing what we all can to save our Brethren, the other Fish species, and even many Mammals who become, sadly, entangled in the humans' driftnets - aren't they meant to be universally against all plaentary laws by now?

Isn't it time for all humans to become Vegan? Don't they want our shared World to live?
Don't they care about suffering of their fellow beings?
Don't they want to breathe good air and for us to breathe good water?

Where are your religions up there in the air world?

I was telling Ocean - the human I transmit information to - the other day, via our own wavelength, that she should tell more people about The Mers, about how much we need for humans to align with us to save our planet, Sea!

Don't they all realize that ninety percent - 90 % !!! - of all the Seven Seas' Fish - OUR FAMILY AND YOURS - are gone forever!!!

It Is URGENT that we all become Vegan, Child-Free - yes, humans, you are breeding us all into extinction! -  and to do all we can to save who and what we can!

Please, please, listen to a Mermaid, even if you ignore the other humans!

I have made unprecedented contact with a human merely in order to let you know We Exist and We Need Your Help!

Please respond and please go vegan NOW!
Thank you.

A Blue Moon? We Weren’t Blue At All and Neither Was The Moon!

You humans are so funny with your constant comparisons, weighings, judgements, and compartmentalizing!

And blue? It was lovely and golden!

Don’t you get tired of always thinking?

We Mers enjoy life far more than you seem to, and this Wintry day you have deemed your “New Year’s Eve” is no different to us than any other day, but for the fact that we deplore our noisy use of fireworks - we instead adore the stars and the heavenly sky. They are so marvelously beautiful on their own! No adornments, no other distractions needed.

We Mers eschew calenders, weights, measures, and other stupidities that only minimize your existence.

Is it your constant need to feel in control that drives your silly attempts at owning Nature?

No wonder you humans have such a need to dilute your days and nights with stimulants and alcohol!

What a waste!

Don’t you know that life is brief?

And so, so very precious?

And so, under the gorgeous full moon, we’ve stayed far from shore and your noise that frightens fish and ruins the sleep of all other animals including the humans who merely had wished to sleep through the cold night, and we’ve had a wonderful time, just living and loving under the very full moon.

Try being natural some time - you’ll love it!

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I have no idea why you humans are so apparently obsessed with the idea of Mers, unless it has to do with the fact that - as yet - there is no proof that we exist, except in human imagination.

And - why do humans imagine fairytale beings at all?

Well, first of all, as a Mermaid, I can tell you that we are not obsessed with humans in the same way. Most obviously, because we know for sure that you exist!

So, let's say we take away the mystery about the existence of the Mers conclusively - not that we will ever let that happen, but...for the sake of this discussion - it still seems obvious that, given the prevalence of your myths and legends spanning the range of behaviors attributed to us Mers, there might even be more obsession with us.

And, as we suspect, most likely, annoying us, chasing us, and attempting to photograph and film us would become the number one human occupation.

So, now that you understand that we do not want to be among you for many, many reasons, we can go back to our ideas of why humans are interested in the Mers.

Not that fish aren’t fascinating - all of us - but there is that pesky resemblance to humans, that even Mers admit to, so there is the most obvious reason for our constant appearance in your bodies of mythologies from nations all over the world.

And, the silence from Mers, except for our singing that humans hear on occasion, allows the innate human quality of creation to fill in the blanks with whatever is in his or her head at the time, so myths abound in both directions - having Mers be good or bad, according to the story.

Naturally you find us beautiful and handsome, since we do resemble humans above the waist.

And, I must admit our voices are lovely, without exception. It’s just part of being a Mer. And did you know that all fish talk and sing? Yes, and many other fish species sing with great ability.

Humans are amazingly myopic. Egocentrism is the norm, and it’s used by humans all too often in order to objectify other beings in order to visit cruelty upon them.

Do you understand why we have so little to do with your specie?

At times, having seen us - male and female - seated upon rocks or sandy islets, engaged in one of our necessary occupations like combing out our tresses, I suppose the idea of the vanity of the Mers has become attached to us - quite unfairly!

Imagine the tangles we must endure!

Fashioning combs out of shells or even using combs found on the sea floor and using them is a mundane and necessary task for us, but we are often perceived as vain and petty. We are far from thinking about how gorgeous or hunky we are when we’re merely making our manes manageable!

Oh, the things that have been said!

We’re individuals, as are humans and as are members of every specie.

Some are more into themselves than others, of course, but usually, we’re just living our lives, humming to ourselves and enjoying the sunshine on our scales - and holding our breath, of course - our water, that is, since we breathe water, and can only sit in the air for brief times!

So, it’s necessary to put oneself in others’ shoes - or, fins - via empathy - for either the Mers or the humans to attempt to understand each other.

I will continue to transmit on this subject as we go along.

For now, though, I’m off for a brisk swim!

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October 21, 2009

So many would-be Mermaids and Mermen write to me for information on our lives, that I feel I will be sharing much about our lives with all of you as the months roll by.

First, we are fish.

Yes, The Mers are proud to be cold-blooded, shimmering, quick, lively members of the huge order of fish.

We groan on hearing that some attempt to pin the name of mammal to us. We are definitely not warm-blooded, slow, furry, child-bearing mammals!

We’d have to be enormous, like Manatees, and just as slow, to be mammals.

Fish are, after all, the most gloriously gorgeous of all the species on our planet, don’t you think?

Silvery, most of us, glimmering, scaled, exquisitely shaped, and fast as underwater lightning!

We, like all fish, lay eggs, and don't go through any sort of awkward period of malformation that mars the early months or years of the offspring of mammals.

We’re always gorgeous!

I can’t imagine having warm blood - always having to stay in warm latitudes, worrying about temperatures all the time, and so on. Even wearing clothing!

Of course, speaking of Manatees, we all adore them, and spend lots of time playing with them when they venture out to salt watery seas - and - this is key! - if the Manatees choose to be among us Mers. We always communicate with them and with every other member of other species, and honor their own choices. Similarly, humans should, of course, always let any other member of other species decide for him or herself if encounters might be possible.

We think Manatees are great! They’re beautiful as they are - large and ponderous, extremely intelligent, and soulful.

We Mers just tend to be quite different.

We’re quick, agile, and thoroughly enjoy traveling all about the globe, never having to be confined in one area or another.

The only thing we must pursue is the plant growth. After all, we’re vegan - and this we share with the Manatees and with the Great Sea Turtles - and we love certain types of seaweed and sea grasses more than others. They have growing seasons and areas where they’re more delectable than others, and so we tend to congregate there, much as you humans crowd into restaurants!

And - naturally, we Mers have a special fondness for humans who are compassionate enough to be vegan, and it is only they we approach. Would you like ot learn more about becoming Vegan?

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I've been out swimming with dolphins, enjoying careening through large waves at high tide, body surfing with them and with the many other sea beings who enjoy surfing and playing when the waves are large! Other mammals like dolphins and porpoises do, and even manatees, and many types of fish like I am of all sizes love to be lifted up, carried for a ride, and, depending on the size of the fish and of the wave, some smaller ones jump out of the face of the folding wave and jump backward to behind the wave lines, and some dive straight down into the water as it's pulling backward, under the wave before it falls!

I do some of both, since we Mers tend to a larger size than many of the other fish who body surf, but then again, many of the sea mammals who body surf do so further away from the beach and the shallow water, following boats and getting lifted up by the wakes the crafts bring!

Along with having fun and enjoying the colors of the sunsets, as all the fish who live near enough to the surface do, jumping up sometimes in whole troops to see the strong fuscias, goldens, and oranges spread out along the horizon and to say a shimmering good-night to the Sun, I've been staying close to the areas where the magnificent sea turtles lay their eggs, watching out for the nests and so on. Now the babies are mainly hatched and out in the open seas of the world enjoying their childhoods!

I'm happy in a way that Baby Turtle season is over, since I worry about their nests, strewn out along our coastlines in the warm seas, and watched over by countless wonderful human volunteers, who walk the beaches morning and night to find and to protect their nests with fencing, and so on - not because I don't adore seeing the Darling Babies clambering cutely along the sand and running straight into the water to swim their tiny hearts out! Not because of them, of course - just because it's stressful, helping to watch out for them! I and many other Mers spend lots of time near the shore, just making sure their nests are safe while the Mama turtles are laying the eggs and while the little eggs are needing safety while the babies develop inside, and then - oh, joy! - the babies hatch! We're all out there, making commotions with our huge tails to divert people who might carelessly walk too near the nests, or making noise to deter birds from going near, and scaring away alligators or other animals!

And when we're in shallow water, it's not as comfortable, with our long tails, and with our need to stay incognito, so it's understandable that our favorite part of the whole seven month period is when we Mers can breathe a watery lungful of relief and retreat out to deep water as we escort the Baby Turtles !They're so cute! We love helping the humans who protectcthe turtles, and when the babies hatch, then we get to accompany them as they swim with their precious little arms out to sea, unlike the humans!

This is the most fun part of all! We wish we could share this with those who devote their time to be "foster parents" for all wildlife.

We adore the humans who volunteer to help save innocent lives!

So, after the babies begin to swim, we collectively stretch out to our full length and go out to kelp beds where we - all Mers are vegan, of course - feed on fresh seaweed with the little newborn turtles!

Then, we Mers, stretching and swimming all around, get to see tons of these little dolls as they discover our fabulous underwater world!

It's a really fun time of year, and I thought I'd share it with you, since most humans will never know the thrill of seeing the babies hatch, and no human will ever see them learning to swim out at sea.

I hope you can imagine it!

Being a Mer is fun!