where do mermaids come from
The earliest known mermaid legends come from Syria around 1000 B.C. where the Syrian goddess Atargatis dove into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the powers there would not allow her give up her great beauty, so only her bottom half became a fish and she kept her top half in human form.he roots of mermaid mythology are more varied than one would expect. In modern myth we tend to see mermaids in a singular way-kind and benevolent to humans who keep to their own kind in the deep waters of the ocean.