#internationalmermaidday — Public Fediverse posts

Happy Mermaid Day! On March 29, we celebrate these enchanting beings from under the sea.
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Diese Meerjungfrau möchte Euch erinnern: Heute ist International Mermaid Day.

Ein guter Tag, Euch Landmenschen daran zu erinnern, unsere Meere nicht zu vermüllen und keinen Lärm im und unter Wasser zu verursachen. Benutzt Segelschiffe oder Ruderboote.

Die Meere gehören nicht Euch, und wir Meerwesen dulden Euch nur, wenn Ihr Rücksicht auf die Geschöpfe des Meeres nehmt.

Ansonsten nehmen die Meere Euch das Land weg.

Und hört auf, Menschen auf der Flucht im Mittelmeer ertrinken zu lassen. Wesen mit Mitgefühl können so etwas doch nicht zulassen! Ihr müsst doch alles für ihre Rettung tun! Schafft sichere Fluchtwege und helft Euren Mitmenschen, die in Not sind.

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Happy International Mermaid Day 🧜‍♀️

Heute ist nicht nur Sonnenfinsternis, sondern auch Internationaler Meerjungfrauentag. Natürlich gilt er allem Meervolk, Meermännern, Meerfrauen und nichtbinären Meerpersonen.

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For #InternationalMermaidDay: At the Île de Bréhat a fairy famously transformed some shepherds to stone for having leered at a mermaid basking there.
https://bonjourfrombrittany.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-fairies-of-the-swells/

#InternationalMermaidDay: „#Ireland does have its own mer-people, they are called merrows, from the old #Irish murúch, or murdúchann, and were described in the Lebor Gebála Érenn as siren-like. So far as I know, they were sea creatures, and not lake-dwellers.“
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/

For #InternationalMermaidDay: This mermaid can be interpreted as an allusion to St Brendan, the patron of Clonfert Cathedral. To quote one of the surving texts of Brendan's voyage: When all this was over at last, they resumed their journey and once more got into great difficulties, because they saw a beast coming towards them with a human body and face, but from the waist downwards it was fish. It is called a siren, a very lovely creature with a beautiful human shape; it sings so well and its voice is so sweet that whoever hears it cannot resist sleep and does not know what he is doing. When this sea monster approached them, the shipmen fell asleep and let the ship drift: the monks too forgot themselves completely because of its voice and did not know where they were. (See The Voyage of St Brendan, ISBN 0-85989-755-9, p. 141.)

For #InternationalMermaidDay: `On the Isle of Man #Conchobar met with a #mermaid fast asleep on the beach. He promptly bound the syren, but she, on waking and perceiving what had happened, besought him to liberate her; and to induce him to yield to her petition, she informed him that she was Teeval, the Princess of the Ocean; and promised that if he caused the smith Culann to form her representation on the shield surrounded with this inscription, 'Teeval, Princess of the Ocean,' it would possess such extraordinary powers that when ever he was about engaging his enemy in battle, and looked upon her figure on the shield, read the legend, and invoked her name, his enemies would diminish in strength, while he and his people would acquire a proportionate increase in theirs. Conchobar had the shield made according to the advice of Teeval, and, on his return to Ireland, such extraordinary success attended his arms, that he won the kingdom of Ulster.`
Source: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fim/fim04.htm

for #InternationalMermaidDay: The #mermaid (Merrow, Morrough, Moruach, Moruadh, Maighdean-mara, Ben-Varrey, Mary Morgan) is a continental and insular folkloric figure. Half-human, half-fish beings are found in the folklore of all #Celtic lands, from the west of #Ireland across #Scotland and England to the coasts of France. These figures most often appeared as female, although male merfolk are occasionally known.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

Morgen ist übrigens Internationaler Meerjungfrauen-Tag - wie jedes Jahr am 29. März 🧜‍♀️

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The #Mermaid: an anonymous 17th Century 'country dance' from The #Dancing Master, John Playford, 1679.

A day late for #mermaidday which was on 29 March...

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