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A pair of "piscis anthropomorpho" sirens (mermaids). Called "peche muger" by the Spaniards and "duyon" by locals (Visayans)

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English: Illustration pertaining to a type of "anthropomorphic fish", also designated "sirens" by author (Athanasius Kircher). The book describes the species as being caught in the waters in the island group called "Islas de los Pintados" (here rendered in Latin as "Insulas Pictorum") within the Visayan Islands. The local name duyon suggests they are in actualities dugongs, but depicted fancifully in the European imagination.
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Source Kircher, Athanasius (1654) "Lib. III. Pars VI. Caput II. §VI. : De Pisce Anthropomorpho, seu Syrene sanguinem trahente" in Magnes sive De arte magnetica opus tripartitum (3rd ed.), Rome: Deuersin et Zanobius Masotti, pp. 531–532
Author Athanasius Kircher

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