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The Sirens: The Complete Story of the Irresistible Singers of the Wine-Dark Sea | Greek Mythology for Sleep
The Sirens: The Complete Story of the Irresistible Singers of the Wine-Dark Sea | Greek Mythology for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the Sirens, made for falling asleep to.
The thing almost nobody gets right about them: they were not beautiful women in the water. In the oldest sources they were birds — bodies of birds, faces of women, standing on a rock in a meadow surrounded by the bones of everyone who had already stopped to listen. The mermaid came much later, and the older version is stranger and better.
What they offered wasn't seduction either. That's the detail that makes the story…
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