I m from Greece and i think i have something to share with you.
This is a fish (maybe) in the category of rays (maybe)
The fisherman called as devilwoman. Can be found in ionean sea betweeen Italy and Greece.
As probably you will see its like the demons in hell which we will find in lots of religious pictures.
And as you will notice has many humanity similarities.
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Telephos,
Thanks for your contribution of the Devilwoman fish. Very interesting.
It certainly does look human, it seems to have ribs.
What we've heard is that on the surface, human growth is stunted, longevity
is curtailed, etc., and that in cavern worlds and in the hollow portion,
growth is tremendous and longevity is, well, long. What woulda fish that be
like in the depths of the planet? As large as a human?
Christopher Coumbus reported mermaids, and there have been other reports. He
said that they were only similar to humans in looks, not comely at all.
Maybe they are similar to the Devilwoman fish but swam up from below.
From Mike Mott's book, Caverns, Cauldrons and Concealed Creatures:
On June 15, 1608, while sailing north of Russia near the Novaya Zemlya
islands, famed navigator Henry Hudson inscribed the following sighting in
his logbook, as reported by amazed members of his crew on watch:
"From the navel upward, her back and breasts were like a woman's... her body
as big as one of us; her skin very white; and long hair hanging down behind,
of color black; in her going down they saw her tail, which was like the tail
of a porpoise, and speckled like a mackerel."
So, obscure drunken sailors and fishermen were not the only ones to see
strange humanoids in the ocean. On January 4, 1493, during his first journey
to the Americas, Christopher Columbus made an entry in his journal that he
himself, along with his crew, had witnessed a trio of mermaids breaking high
from the sea off the coast of Haiti, going so far as to say:
"They were not as comely as they are painted, but to some extent they have a
human appearance about the face...."
Columbus also swore that he had seen the same types of beings on a previous
voyage off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. It is doubtful that he saw
stitched-together fish-and-monkey corpses thrashing about in the sea.
The 17-century explorer of America, John Smith, claimed to have seen a
mermaid in an up-close encounter, on a trip through the West Indies in 1614.
He initially saw her swimming and thought her a lovely maiden, but when he
prepared to talk to her from the ship, he was shocked to discover that, from
the waist down, "the woman gave way to the fish."
Obviously, she was not a fish. But what are these beings? Variants of the
human family, returned to the sea in the manner of cetaceans? Human
pinnipeds? Or, like the Irish murduchu and selkie, are they possibly wearing
some sort of swimming apparatus, some manner of form-fitting technology,
which gives them the appearance of a fish or porpoise from the waist down?
The Sumerian and Babylonian ocean-gods of elder days could "shed" their
aquatic forms and appear more human, as well. Hundreds of other eyewitness
accounts have been preserved, from churchmen, sailors, housewives, medical
doctors, others, in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. A most
comprehensive and balanced report on the actual sightings, in more or less
modern times, of the mermaid phenomena can be found in the book
Unexplained!, by Jerome Clark.
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