Mermaids, Witches And Amazons

The official theory on mermaid myths and sighting is mermaids are simply sea cows, which sailors have mistaken for mermaids. This theory suggests that sailors in the past were half-wits and idiots simply because a sea cow looks nothing like a woman with a fish tail. Also most myths and stories come from Europe where there are no sea cows.

Having studied mermaid legends and sightings of the past I have come to a completely different conclusion, that mermaid are not mythical creatures or sea-cows but real life women. And surprisingly mermaids still exist even today in places like Japan, Korea and other South East Asia countries. In Japan and Korea they are called ama and haenyo divers. I have come to the conclusion that there were once similar divers in Europe, Africa, America and even Australia, and these were the mermaids of legend.

I have also looked at the Aquatic Ape theory as advocated by Elaine Morgan. This theory explains why humans are so different from any other species of ape, simply because we were once a semi-aquatic ape.

What I have discovered is that the mermaid legend is a suppressed chapter of her-story, where many of the achievements of women have been written out of history.