I wrote an article about whether mermaids are real here. The same goes for mermaids who are half woman and half fish by the way.
Two such different animals could just not exist in the same body. There are however two reasons that tell us that sirens most likely are not real – at least not in our time.įirstly, it is impossible that a creature is both a bird and a human.Įvolutionarily speaking, birds are actually more closely related to dinosaurs than to humans. So, given that they were thought to be supernatural beings like that, it seems pretty much impossible for us to tell if they were real or not. Like that they were able to accompany the souls of dead humans down to the underworld (maybe through the sea). The idea of the bird women was tied to ancient soul birds who could fly from the world of the living to the underworld and vice versa. Sirens were originally bird-women that had a strong connection to the underworld. Could sirens even be real?Įven though today most people image sirens as dangerous, but beautiful women with fishtails, that story is not quite right. What it means that they are representing rocks and who they really were, I will discuss in the following. They represented the danger of the rocky shore of Capri in Italy, where ships often sunk and sailors died. But their myth is tied to real drownings of sailors. Sirens themselves are not real because they are mythological creatures. Could there be some truth behind their story – were sirens real? These myths go back over 2500 years to ancient Greece and beyond. Sirens are commonly known as the dangerous mermaids that insidiously lure in sailors with their beautiful voices, only to kill them.