Salacia’s Revenge
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But today, plastic islands had formed everywhere; it had become almost impossible to see the sun without swimming to the sea’s surface.
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| Nearshore Americas |
The sun glinting on the plastic islands gave them the appearance of gigantic diamonds atop the bleached coral.
They had to be careful not to be seen and alarm humans, many of whom doubted the existence of mermaids. But others, who had seen them and fled in dazed shock, often returned in speedboats with armed men. Capturing or killing a mermaid would certify their existence and cement believing islanders’ faith in the netherworld.
The Caribbean was the latest place where plastic islands, a result of human littering, had appeared. The sea goddess, Salacia, had already sent warnings in the form of earthquakes in the Himalaya Mountains, the Caribbean, the Pacific; she had breathed hot air on icebergs in the North and South Poles and watched them melt. She saw how the rising tide had swallowed islands in the southern hemisphere. Yet these catastrophes did not deter mankind from disrespecting and dishonoring the balance of nature.
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| Taino god of storm |
Salacia’s dismay with mankind had reached boiling point. She had planned cataclysmic revenge and had conspired with Hurrican, Goddess of wind and rain, to create a rash of category six cyclones and had ordered Vulcan to shake, break the archipelagoes and breathe fire under them. The tsunamis that followed would leave nothing behind.
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Salacia had been preparing for this day. She had spent some time in the Atlantic before marrying Neptune and had befriended many dolphins. They and other sea creatures had been training human orphans, orphans she had saved over many years from desperate mothers who, in a moment of despair, had thrown themselves with their young into the ocean.
There were many around the world. She had trained these children to master the life of sea and earth, to be lovers of the sea and earth, to be respectful of their inhabitants and all gods and goddesses. Now a highly skilled army of men and women, they would re-people the earth when the time was right.
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Muriel and Maya knew that Armageddon would soon arrive. The sea-world would also suffer catastrophic casualties. But Muriel and Maya and their fellow sea creatures would be bunkered somewhere deep in the fathomless ocean. There, they would await the new day.
They looked up at the sky in its purest blue, cherishing the biting sting of the sun. If Salacia carried out her revenge, they were not going to be seeing it again for a
© Althea Romeo-Mark 2017
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Notes
In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia [sa.laː.kja] was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean.[1] She was the wife and queen of Neptune, god of the sea and water.[2] That Salacia was the wife of Neptune is implied by Varro,[3] and is positively affirmed by Seneca, Augustine and Servius. She is identified with the Greek goddess Amphitrite, wife of Poseidon.[4][5]
Hurricanes are named for the Mayan god "Huracan." Our English word "hurricane" comes from the Taino (the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida) word "huricán", who was the Carib Indian god of evil. Their huricán was derived from the Mayan god of wind, storm and fire, "huracán."
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