Tanya Dziahileva | Las Nuevas Sirenas | Nico

It’s believed that Sirens were another extension of the mermaid myth. No one in today’s world will call Tanya Dziahileva a ‘mermaid’, but ‘siren’ is appropriate in her editorial for Harper’s Bazaar Spain July/August 2010, photographed by Nico.

Men have always been ambivalent about mermaids, the mythological acquatic creature with a female human head and torso but the tail of a fish. In many ancient cultures, mermaids were regarded as semi-divine aspects of the Goddess.

Carl Jung’s theory of the feminine unconscious describes this oceanic-subterranean womb of creation as an unfathomable place of ancient wisdom but also fear. via Aphrodite Joins Yemaya and Mami Wati for a Swim in Human Consciousness.

Unfathomable or not, Tanya Dziahileva makes quite a seductive splash in Harper’s Bazaar Spain, July/Aug 2010.