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Mami Wata · salience 0.9

“a mermaid, with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail”

Iara · salience 0.6

“often described as half-woman and half-fish”

Sedna

“Sedna is most often described as a woman transformed into a being of the deep, her lower body merging into that of a great fish or sea mammal, and her long hair, which she cannot comb herself, drifting loose in the currents around her.”

Liban

“Her prayer was granted in a partial and striking form: her lower body became that of a salmon while her upper body stayed human, making her a mermaid in the literal sense of the word, and her dog was transformed alongside her into an otter.”