Sirens: From Bird Woman to Mermaid | Creatures
Join the channel to support: / @zehrakkuyu ---- A song that attracts those who hear it with the promise of eternal knowledge... The song of the Sirens has fed the imagination of different cultures from thousands of years ago to the present day, inspiring legends and works of art. Sailors of the ancient world were mortally afraid of it, and medieval monks considered it a symbol of sin. ---- Background Music Aribution: © All music by Adrian von Ziegler; (Music used in the video is by Adrian von Ziegler, and used within the guidelines set by the composer himself.) - please check https://bandcamp.com/zehraakkuyu - https://adrianvonziegler.bandcamp.com/ --- Resources and Further Reading: 1. Angeliki Liveri, “Sirens’ Songs and Music: Their Representations and Significance on Archaic and Classical Attic Vase-Paintings,” Pallas [Online], 124 | 2024, Online since 06 May 2024, connection on 24 June 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/palla... https://doi.org/10.4000/1221l 2. Homer, Odyssey (8th century BC) – First literary description of Sirens. Odysseus’ trial with the sirens (Chapter 12). 3. Elbein, Asher. “Sirens of Greek Myth Were Bird-Women, Not Mermaids.” Audubon Magazine, April 6, 2018. Accessed June 27, 2025. 4. Anna Dorofeeva, “The Siren: a Medieval Identity Crisis” – Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte (2014) 5. John Pollard, Seers, Shrines and Sirens: The Greek Religious Revolution in the Sixth Century B.C. (1965) 6. KCP International, “The Folklore of Japanese Mermaids” (2017) 7. ElevatorOperator.band, “La Siréne: the Mermaid of Vodou” 8. Hans Christian Andersen, “Den Lille Havfrue” 9. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict... 10. https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=... 11. Burkert, Greek Religion (1985, pp. 197-198) 12. Mermaid Imagery in British and Irish Medieval Churches | *Author: neilrushton* 13. Morta, K. (2024). We-syreny św. Izydora z Sewilli. Problem atrybucji nazwy. *Vox Patrum*, *92*, 181–206. https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.17374 14. Alsan, Ş. (2024). Analysis of Siren on Mythological, Iconographic and Artistic Works: A Study in Cultural and Artistic Context. RumeliDE Journal of Language and Literature Studies, (39), 670-694. DOI: 10.29000/rumelide.1470145. 15. https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastsourc... 16. Etymologiae, 12.3.30. PL 82.3.30. 17. University of Southampton, Liminal Image s Aspects of Medieval Architectural Sculpture in the South of England from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, Alex Woodcock 18. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lore... 19. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/97... 20. La Sirène – A Deep Dive, May 23, 2023 / Dyekidon 21. http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/h... ---- 00:00 Introduction 01:04 The Danger of the Sea, The Odyssey 02:48 The Appearance of the Sirens 03:25 Sirens in Greek Mythological Tradition 04:06 The Sirens’ Bird The Image Evolved into a Fish 05:51 The Positioning of Sirens as Dangerous Feminine Power 06:50 The Roots of the Myth - or Early Mythological Figures Related to the Sea 08:23 Sirens in Folk Tales 09:56 Siren-like Beings in Different Cultures 16:05 Compilation and Closure ----- Image Attributions: 1. Siren and onocentaur. Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 318, fol. 13v, at www.e-codices.unifr.ch. 2. By The original uploader was Nabokov at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by [Kurpfalzbilder.de](http://kurpfalzbilder.de/) using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0 3. Figura 1 -Odysseus and the Sirens. Attic red-figured stamnos, ca. 480-470 BC. / Siren Painter (eponymous vase) 4. Hydria: siren. Greek, Late Corinthian period, (135), Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden. (Tsiafakis, 2004, p. 75). 5. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/... 6. Dennis G. Jarvis - Flickr: Tunisia-4751 - Phorkys, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... 7. By Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick / Louvre-Lens - Les Étrusques et la Méditerranée - 290 - Londres, British Museum, inv. 1839.0214.70 (Stamnos attique à figures rouges) (A) / Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... 8. By Dennis G. Jarvis - https://www.flickr.com/photos/archer1..., CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... #siren #odyssey
