Aquans: The Siren Vase

Her name is Aquanis and she protects animals in the sea. She has two sacred objects both are on her at all times. One of the objects you will always find on Aquanis’s neck is her sea shell necklace given to her by Poseidon (God of the Sea) when she was born so that she would never loose connection with the sea, no matter what happened. The other sacred object she would have is her hair brooch given to her by Athena (Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Useful Arts). Aquanis is the offspring of Poseidon (God of the Sea) and Athena (Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Useful arts). Ever since Aquanis was little she was always surrounded by the sea and everything in it. She loved to play with the sea animals and always felt a connection with them as if they were …show more content…
Aquanis could have been used as inspiration for an existing cultural artifact called The Siren Vase. The Siren Vase is a Greek pottery vase and it also has an art piece painted on it. This vase was made by who was called The Siren painter whose real name was unknown. As explained here by britishmuseum.org, “In the painting it shows the ship of Odysseus passing the Sirens... Odysseus, wreathed and bearded, is fastened against the bottom of the mast, facing the stern, with his arms behind his back lashed to it. His head is thrown back, looking upwards towards the Sirens”. Going into a little bit more of the painting it is a scene from the journey called the Odyssey taken by a legendary hero in Greek mythology called Odysseus. Fast forwarding into his journey Odysseus and his men began to approach the Island of the lovely Sirens but before getting there as instructed by Circe in the beginning of his journey Odysseus had already plugged his men’s ears with beeswax so that they could not be lured by the singing of the sirens. Aquanis could have been an inspiration for this because as explained Aquanis was able to turn into what was called a siren to then lure any and all fisherman who passed. When luring fisherman in, Aquinas and other sirens would then scare them away from ever coming back and hurting the sea animals. This helped with also being able to scare others who were planning to come and do what the other fisherman had planned to do before them. The character of Aquanis could have inspired other artist from the past and present because of her determination to protect what she believed in. When an artist begins to make their art pieces in most cases there will be a message behind their work. In this case Aquanis is shown to do whatever it takes to protect the sea animals or she could have simply been an inspiration to this piece of art