Recently, a research team at Kurashiki University of Science and Art, Okayama city, Japan announced a plan to research and find a solution to the extremely famous mermaid mummy once kept in Japan. The famous sacred Enjuin temple in the city of Asakuchi.
The mummy of the strange creature has a shape that makes people think of the legendary mermaid with a human-like face and a textured tail of a fish. This mummy is just over 30 cm long, was first found between 1736 and 1741 on the island of Shikoku, on the Pacific coast.
At the time of fishing, in the social context of 3 decades ago, Japanese people at that time firmly believed that this was the mermaid’s remains and they considered it as a god, worshiped. solemnly worship in the temple.
Dr. Hiroshi Kinosнιтa – the head of this research said that the 300-year-old strange creature was of great spiritual value to people in the past and over the years, people have ᴀssumed this mummy as a god and is no longer interested in scientific explanations.
“Japanese mermaids are considered to represent immortality. The ancients believed that by eating just one piece of mermaid’s meat, humans would never face death again,” Mr. Hiroshi said.
100 years ago, the former owner of this strange mummy even wrote a letter with mysterious colors put in the box of the mermaid. This makes the mummy even more mysterious and famous. This letter states that the mermaid was caught in the Kochi region, handed down as a family heirloom, and then wandered to Enjuin Shrine. It was displayed in a glᴀss case for about 40 years and is now kept in a special storage box.
In the immediate future, the research team will conduct CT scans and DNA tests to try to solve the truth about this mysterious mermaid creature. Dr. Hiroshi immediately commented: “I certainly do not believe that this is a mermaid. I predict it to be a strange creature or mummy that has been “designed” by humans from living animals. About mermaids are everywhere, from Japan, China to Europe, so it’s not surprising that people at that time were interested and created products like this.”
The Japanese research team is expected to announce the results of the mermaid mummy discovery project this year.
