Geocoin GCC "The Children of Atargatis"

Geocoin "The Children of Atargatis"

GeoCoinClub July 2019

All around the world people have told and retold stories of underwater races since ancient times of pre-recorded history.  The oldest known legends first appeared in ancient Assyria (c 1000 BC) and tell of the goddess Atargatis who transformed herself into a mermaid to flee below the waves from the shame of accidentally killing the human man she loved.  From this ancient tale have sprung thousands of stories expounding on the resulting children of Atargatis known as mermaids and mermen.

While commonly accepted as simple folklore, merfolk have been repeatedly sighted throughout history and recordings of their sightings have been attributed to the ships logs of Christopher Columbus in 1493 off the coast of Hispaniola, the infamous pirate Blackbeard (along with multiple crew members), and in Canada near Victoria in 1870.  More recently, they have reportedly been sighted in Canada again 1967, Haifa Bay in 2009 (multiple witnesses), and most recently in Zimbabwe in 2012 where workers near water reservoirs were reportedly chased away and refused to return.

• Size Geocoin: 4,5 cm
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