Melusine's Descent

On Naga Queens, Mermaids and the Demon Countess

The Second blog from Out of Dark Waters, Over Mountains, is coming soon. ATale that stretches from Kashmir to The River Boyne, and back in time to Aquitaine in 12th Century France, concerning Mermaids, Demon Countesses, Nagas and River Goddesses

Artwork by Jakki Moore:

Nagas, mermaids and rivers bring me to Melusine, the mermaid-faery-naga whose beauty tempted mortal (noble) men. The Western world has banished the serpent and the dragon. But the east reveres them. Chinese and Japanese, and of course Indian royal families in India claim naga descent. Manipur royalty in NE India trace lineage back to AD33 from the union of a ‘serpent princess’ with a human . So do many European royal houses, but few  speak about it. Except the likes of David Icke, who’s been condemned to hell and banished from several countries, for spreading the fact (among other things, of course).  Take the Merovingian clan, who claim descent from a sea-beast called a quiontaur: ‘In the event she was made pregnant, either by the beast or by her husband, and she gave birth to a son called Merovech, from whom the kings of the Franks have subsequently been called Merovingians.’ (7th-century Chronicle of Fredegar