Guillaume le clerk's bestiary (1210 or 11) referred to the Syren as "shaped like a fish or like a bird". Īlternatively, the siren was sometimes drawn as a hybrid with both a fish-like lower body and bird-like wings and feet. Illustrating the siren as a mermaid (often holding an eel-fish, instead of a musical instrument) became commonplace in the "second family" bestiaries, which included the oldest codex in the group, dated the late 12th century. There also appeared medieval works that conflated sirens with mermaids while citing Physiologus as their source. An early example is the Bern Physiologus dated to the mid 9th century which illustrated the siren as a woman-fish, though this contradicted the accompanying text. The siren's bird-like description was retained in the Latin version of the Physiologus (6th century) and a number of subsequent bestiaries into the 13th century, but at some time during the interim, the mermaid shape was introduced to this body of works. with the body of a maiden, but have scaly fishes' tails". The first known literary attestation of siren as a "mermaid" appeared in the Anglo-Latin catalogue Liber Monstrorum (early 8th century AD), where it says that sirens were "sea-girls. Miniature illustration of a siren enticing sailors who try to resist her, from an English Bestiary, c. The sirens are depicted as mermaids or "tritonesses" in examples dating to the 3rd century BC, including an earthenware bowl found in Athens and a terracotta oil lamp possibly from the Roman period. This combination became iconic in the medieval period, but some surviving Classical period examples had already depicted the siren as mermaid-like. Sirens are often used as a synonym for mermaids, and portrayed with upper human bodies and fish tails. Originally, sirens were shown as male or female, but the male siren disappeared from art around the fifth century BC. The tenth-century Byzantine dictionary Suda stated that sirens ( Greek: Σειρῆνας) had the form of sparrows from their chests up, and below they were women or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces. They were often shown playing a variety of musical instruments, especially the lyre, kithara, and aulos. Later depictions shifted to show sirens with human upper bodies and bird legs, with or without wings. In early Greek art, the sirens were generally represented as large birds with women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. They may have been influenced by the ba-bird of Egyptian religion. By the 7th century BC, sirens were regularly depicted in art as human-headed birds. It was Apollonius of Rhodes in Argonautica (3rd century BC) who described the sirens in writing as part woman and part bird. The sirens of Greek mythology first appeared in Homer's Odyssey, where Homer did not provide any physical descriptions, and their visual appearance was left to the readers' imagination. Demento had a cameo as the bum.Moaning siren statuette from Myrina, first century BC The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on Decemand the following week. Actor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look. The song was featured on Barnes & Barnes' 1982 Fish Heads (Greatest Hits) 12-inch on Rhino Records. It is accompanied by a high-pitched chorus, achieved by speeding up the tape, which repeats the original's chorus: "Fish heads! Fish heads! Roly poly fish heads! Fish heads! Fish heads! Eat them up! Yum!". The song is about fish heads and all the things they are not able to do, such as answering questions, playing baseball, wearing sweaters, dancing, playing drums, or being seen "drinking cappuccinos in Italian restaurants with Oriental women" (the song also notes that fish heads can do some unique things, like get into movies without having to buy tickets).
Demento show, and is the most honored song in Demento show history. "Fish Heads" is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes, released as a single in 1978 and later featured on their 1980 album Voobaha.
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