Talk:Myu/@comment-114.125.165.21-20190728041754/@comment-5728015-20190903185746

@the person wondering if she is supposed to be related to a species from the Percy Jackson series:

No, not at all. Her race is a reference to the Deep Ones ([]), immortal, humanoid being that appear mostly human, but with certain fish-like features, from H.P Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "Dagon", who are ruled by (and worship) the most ancient of their kind, Father Dagon and Mother Hydra. They also all happen to worship Cthulhu.

That Dagon, in turn, is loosely based on/inspired by the ancient Mesopotamian/Canaanite fertility God by the same name ([]), who wasn't actually all that fishy, but ancient scholars read some ancient religious verse in a way that seemed to imply him being half-fish, and so, for ~800 years, until archeologists in the early 20th century began to cast doubt on that interpretation, he was depicted as your classic merman, i.e., human on top, fish on bottom.

...That was probably more than you ever wanted to know on the subject, but...