Sirens

Seirenes aka sirens. __ Key Points __. 1. Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepi. 2. Siren's goal. 3. Siren's appearence. 4. Before they had bird bodies. 5. Location. 6. Odysseus and the Sirens. 7. The death of the Sirens.

= = It is beleived that there were three main sea nypths known as sirens, Pisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepi, that would lure sailors in with there beautiful singing and eventually the sailors only payed attention to their voices and their beauty then crash and die. One of them would do the singing, while one would play the flute, and the other would play the lyre. Most people know them as having the head of a female and the body of a bird. They were not always like this though. In the beginning they used to be ordinary mermaids until one day the goddess of harvest and fertility turned them into the part human/part bird for failing to capture her daughter who was kiddnapped by Hades, God of the underworld.



Sirens lived on Anthemoessa which was an island located in the sea between Sicily and Italy. This island was incaved by rocky boulders in which sailors would likely crash into being taken away by the sirens beautiful voices. There they would sit and wait to sing and play for the next coming victim. No one could seem to overcome the power of the sirens untill one day...



Odysseus set out to sea with his crew. He had heard and knew about these sea creatures so he had his crew stick beeswax in their ears so they could not hear the sirens songs. Odysseus wanted to hear the beautiful voices for himself so he had his mates tie him to the mast of the ship so he could not dive out and swim towards the music. This was very clever of him for it had worked! They outlasted the sirens and ended safetly upon the shores.



It has been told that the only way for sirens to die is if a ship had passed them succesfully without harm done to the people aboard. So because Odysseus and his crew just happened to do so and defeat the sirens, the sirens took pity in this and ended their generation forever.



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