sirens

GREEKS BELIVED BIRDS OF THE UNDERWORLD FLEW BETWEEN EARTH AND REALM OF THE DEAD. BIRD’S SONGS, LIKE THE SIRENS, OFFERED A GLIMPSE OF UNDERWORLD FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE.

SIRENS WERE FIRST DEPICTED AS HALF-BIRD HALF-WOMAN, THEN TRANSFOMRED INTO TO HALF-FISH HALF-WOMAN.

GREEK (SEIREN)
FROM SEIRA (‘ROPE, ‘CORD’)
SUGGESTING SIREN’S ABILITY ‘TO BIND’
FROM EIRO (‘TO BIND’)
(WWW.EN.WIKTIONARY.ORG.)

SIRENS WERE SAID TO BE
“SINGING A SONG THAT PROMISED KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS”.

SIRENS HAD UNEARTHLY VOICES AND USED MOVEMENTS UNLIKE THAT OF HUMANS.

THE BA IS THE SPIRIT-SOUL OF A PERSON DEPARTING LIFE TO ENTER THE AFTERLIFE. IN 1550 BCE, IN EGYPT, SIRENS WERE DEPICTED AS THE BAS.
(BAS-T ‘FEMALE BAS’)

GREEK
EIRE
(‘TO TIE’, ‘TO JOIN’ ‘TO FASTEN’, ‘TO STRING TOGETHER’)
(WWW.EN.WIKTIONA
RY.ORG.)

OFFICIALLY
SIREN
MYTHICAL SISTERS WHO ENTICED SAILORS TO THEIR DEATH
FROM GREEK SEIRA
(‘ROPE’, ‘CORD’)
(WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)

EGYPTIAN
BAST
BA (‘SOUL’/‘SPIRIT’)*
PLUS -ISTE (‘ONE WHO DOES
OR ONE WHO MAKES)
FRENCH -ISTE;; LATIN -ISTA;
BA-ISTE > BAST (‘ONE WHO MAKES SOUL’ OR ‘ONE
WHO EMPOWERS SPIRIT’’)
(WWW.ETYMONLINE.COM)

BA WAS THE ‘SOUL’, ‘SPIRIT’.
THAT CAN TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WORLD OF LIVING AND THE LAND OF THE DEAD’