Suvannamaccha and Hanuman - The Trouble With Mermaids

[pigshitpoet]

Rāmāyana (/rɑːˈmɑːjənə/; Sanskrit: रामायणम्, IAST: Rāmāyaṇam pronounced [raːˈmaːjɐɳɐm]) is one of the two major Sanskrit
epics of ancient India and important text of Hinduism, the other being the Mahābhārata

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indian mermaid

[pigshitpoet]

nor had i

india doesn't seem like a sea faring people to me,
not like phoenicia



To the Phoenicians, a god popular throughout Western Asia; in Phoenician, the word "dag" meant "fish". He had a "form resembling that of a fish, but with a human head growing below the fish's and with human feet growing alongside the fish's tail and growing out of it"

H.P. Lovecraft wrote a novel about a sinister pagan god called Dagon. have you possibly read it?

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[deepseasiren]

No, that's why it's so unusual to see a mermaid in Hindu culture. Of course, they do have a lot of rivers, and who's to say there is no river mermaid? I even had a freshwater pond mermaid created for my collection :P

I don't remember the Dagon god. What story was that? I tend to like the stories ( I have three collections of his stories) that are not well know. One of them was about a sinister violinist " The Music of Erich Zann" or something like that.

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[pigshitpoet]

don't rivers have eels and alligators?
the dagon origin is phoenician

Dagon is also the first of Lovecraft's stories to introduce a Cthulhu Mythos

Dagon, the "father of gods" similar to Mesopotamian Enlil or Hurrian Kumarbi, as well as a lord of the land, a god of prosperity, and a source of royal legitimacy

Re: indian mermaid

[deepseasiren]

Interesting. I had no idea.

I wonder if Dagon will be there when I enter the Phoenician Classic bodybuilding show....:P

Re: indian mermaid

[pigshitpoet]

there's a phoenician body building show?
what does that even mean?
; ))