Mermaid anatomy

Mermaid anatomy

A very useful chart for mer-doctors.

1. If you eat the flesh of a mermaid you become immortal. 2. The mermaid, or syrenka, is the symbol of Warsaw 3. In Greek Mythology the Sirens were the companions of Persephone, turned into birds by Demeter, her grieving mother for refusing to say what happened to her daughter after she was abducted by Hades. Over time mythology changed the sirens to 1/2 bird 1/2 fish and eventually they became the familiar woman/fish hybrid of the mermaid. 4. Alexander the Great's sister Thessalonike…

Description How mermaids work in my graphic novel. I actually changed my mind a little after making this picture: they have little or no extra webbing on their hands. Additional facts of mermaids in my story: *Mammals *Simultaneous hermaphrodites (baring age or health problems, any individual can do both the male and female sides of reproduction at any point in their reproductive years). Can usually induce lactation pretty easily, both parents can feed babies. *I think of them as…

aaand here is the english one! (french one here : [link] ) My merpeople don't have a dorsal fin or lateral fins close to the "human" half. So the focus ... Merpeople of Loi

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