The origin of the trademark is a 16th-century Scandinavian wood carving of a two-tailed mermaid (a siren in Greek mythology). She has a clearly visible double fish tail.

Siren is a female monster in Greek mythology with a human head and a bird body (or a bird head and a human body, or even similar to a mermaid). She often descends on rocks in the sea or on sailing ships. Known as the siren or beauty bird.

They are the daughters of the river god Achelous and Sterope (some say they are Achelous and Melpomene, one of the muses) or Therpsichore). Their nickname was Acheloides, which means "daughters of Achelous."

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According to the description in Homer's epic "The Odyssey", the sirens lived on an island covered with bones in the sea near Sicily. The sailors passing by were distracted by her singing voice, and the ship hit the rocks and sank.

Folk superstitious legends believe that sirens were originally beautiful sea nymphs and were later depicted as evil elves. They also have the head of a woman and the body of a bird. The sirens are similar to Harpies, but the harpies are mostly described as ferocious and brutal beasts that cause trouble; while the seductive and deadly sirens are beautiful. Delicate and graceful, she is sometimes depicted as a mermaid.

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"Odysseus and the Sirens" (Herbert James Drapeau/painting, 1910 Years) Odysseus was a hero in the Trojan War, but when faced with the temptation of the Sirens, he almost lost himself and asked the crew to tie him to the mast on the deck. This group of beautiful sirens caused widespread controversy in the British aestheticism movement at the end of the 19th century, and Herbert was one of the main pioneers at the time.

The Siren is the daughter of the river god Ecroeus and a beautiful fairy born from his blood. Because he lost the music competition with the Muse, his wings were removed by the Muse, making him unable to fly.

After losing its wings, the siren had to swim near the coastline, sometimes transforming into a mermaid. He used his musical talent to attract passing sailors, causing them to suffer disaster. The island where the Sirens live is located near the Strait of Messina, where there are also two other sirens, Skylar and Charybdis. It is also true that the sea area in that area has long been filled with the bones of victims.

Only two heroes in Greek mythology passed safely through the realm of the Sirens. One was Orpheus in the Argonauts, who captivated the Sirens by playing his harp; the other The hero of the Trojan War, Odysseus, asked his sailors to seal their ears with wax and tie themselves to the mast in order to listen to the songs of the sirens, so the sirens used their songs to lure Odyss. After the failure of Odysseus and his companions;

Parthenope, the eldest of the three sisters, fell deeply in love with Odysseus. So when his ships passed by, Parthenope and her other sisters threw themselves into the sea and were turned into cliffs. There are also other theories that after Parthenope committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea, her body floated to the Bay of Naples, where a monument was built specifically for her.

In other records, sirens are guides to the underworld. According to legend, the Sirens were originally beautiful forest nymphs who were the playmates of Persephone, the queen of the underworld, who was kidnapped by Pluto. Because they failed to fulfill their duty to protect Persephone, they were punished by Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, and turned into a human head. The strange shape of the bird's body is designed to guide the souls of the dead to the underworld. In some legends, harpies are messengers of seductive spirits, further suggesting a possible connection between the two.