A "mermaid" Mummy, A maya City and a Missing piece of the Dead Sea scrolls: 11 stunning Historical finds from 2022

A "mermaid" Mummy, A maya City and a Missing piece of the Dead Sea scrolls: 11 stunning Historical finds from 2022

In 18th-century Japan, many people prayed to this "mermaid" mummy, believing it could grant them immortality. Allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean, the specimen measures just a foot long, but many thought that the upper half resembled that of a human being, while the lower half looked like that of a fish, complete with scales. Since mermaids have an important place in traditional Japanese folklore — and supposedly promise everlasting life to any person who eats a mermaid's flesh — it's little wonder why so many were transfixed by this mysterious mummified creature centuries ago. However, skeptics were convinced that it was simply an unusual sea creature or perhaps even a monkey and a fish sewn together. But hundreds of years later, as scientists are now starting to study this bizarre specimen, we might finally learn the truth. ⁠

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Ningyo (人魚, "human fish") as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature.

Though often translated as "mermaid", the term is technically not gender-specific and may include the "mermen". The literal translation "human-fish" has also been applied.

The earliest records of the ningyo attested in written Japanese sources are freshwater beings allegedly captured in the 7th century (§Asuka period), documented later in the Nihon Shoki.[a] But subsequent examples are usually seawater beings.

In later medieval times (§Kamakura and Muromachi periods)), it was held to be a sign of ill omen, and its beaching (§Omens in Michinoku) was blamed for subsequent bloody battles or calamity.

The notion that eating its flesh imparts longevity is attached to the legend of the Yao Bikuni [ja] ('eight hundred [year old] Buddhist priestess', cf. §Yao Bikuni)

During the Edo period, the ningyo was made the subject of burlesque gesaku novels (cf. §Saikaku, 1687 and Santō Kyōden's §Hakoiri musume, 1791). There were also preserved ningyo being manufactured using fish parts (§Mummies or Feejee mermaids), and illustrated by some scholars of the period (e.g. §Baien gyofu); some such mummies are held by certain temples that have ningyo legend attached to them (cf. §Prince Shōtoku).

The description of the ningyo as having a red cockscomb (§Shokoku rijindan, and Saikaku) or light red hair (§Kasshi yawa) corroborates the hypothesis that oarfish sightings led to ningyo lore.

One giant ningyo was allegedly shot in 1805, even though it was held to be lucky, according to the news circulated in kawaraban pamphlet form (§Kairai)

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