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OK so I drew the mermaid Melusine from the Starbucks logo in my own version on paper with her breast showing why because I don't feel offended by breast's  I will colour her in later.

Information on the Starbucks mermaid logo:

Every day, millions of people walk into any of 20,519 Starbucks in 65 countries, and most walk back out with the same thing: a white cardboard coffee cup.
Do you know the one? Of course you do. “Starbucks cups have become part of the cultural backdrop, an unconscious reminder that the brand exists,” observed management consultant and business speaker Can Akdeniz.
“It’s an extremely powerful piece of packaging.”


And every year, Starbucks sells somewhere around 5 billion of them.

The story of how a simple paper cup got to be the most recognizable to-go container in the world is a strange one, and it’s about to get even stranger.
Because, before we talk about the cup, we have to talk about breasts—a mermaid with breasts, actually.

In 1971, Starbucks (then a mere fledging coffee shop on the Seattle waterfront) was looking for a logo, something that would embody the seafaring history of its home city.
The three founders hired a consultant named Terry Heckler. According to CEO Howard Schultz, Heckler “pored over old marine books until he came up with a logo based on an old 16th-century Norse woodcut: a two-tailed mermaid.”
(Medieval-minded blogger Carl Pyrdum has pointed out that there were no Norsemen left by the 16th century, but let’s just move on.)



The mermaid was exotic. She was also topless. At first, and despite some complaints, Starbucks just rolled with it.
As Schultz later explained, “Bare breasted and Rubenesque, [the mermaid] was supposed to be as seductive as the coffee itself.”
But then the time came to put the logo on the delivery trucks, and that was problematic. “The logo was huge,” Heckler’s website relates, “—and so were the mermaid’s breasts.”

Starbucks solved the problem by restyling the mermaid’s hairdo so it draped over the trouble spots.
Then, in 1986, entrepreneur Schultz bought out the original Starbucks partners and modified the logo by placing the mermaid in the center of a green circle, a striking and memorable badge for that white cardboard cup.

The resulting device became an icon nearly overnight.
Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks, relates the folklore of how Madison Avenue interns used to splurge $5 on a Starbucks latte, drink it and then carry the
empty cup around for the remainder of the week. “They wanted people to see them with the cup,” he said.
“Through the intervention of users, Starbucks was able to make that cup shorthand for someone who was discerning, sophisticated and had enough money to waste on coffee.”



1. In 1971, the first Starbucks opened its doors in Seattle, featuring a sign made of painted cedar planks. When the building was demolished in 1974, the company moved the furnishings to a new
“original” location at 102 Pike Street. This store (where the wallpaper is made from old burlap coffee sacks) is still open today.

2. Starting in the ‘90s, the Starbucks coffee cup enjoyed cameos in both TV and film. Carrie Bradshaw took a stylish sip in this 1998 episode of Sex and the City.
In 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada, tortured assistant Andrea buys Miranda her coffee each morning, bringing it in those perennially fashionable white cups.

3. The original mermaid, au naturel from 1971 (top), and just below, her contemporary counterpart.



While The Little Mermaid portrays Ariel as a quirky, curious beauty with hopes of exploring the world, according to Greek mythology, mermaids, or sirens, were predatory seductresses that would seduce sailors with
songs and promises of sex — and then kill them.

The original Starbucks logo had a twin-tailed mermaid, known as Melusine. According to Wikipedia the tale of Melusine is as follows below:


The tale was translated into German in 1456 by Thüring von Ringoltingen, the version of which became popular as a chapbook. It was later translated into English c. 1500, and often printed in both the 15th century and
the 16th century. A prose version is entitled the Chronique de la princesse (Chronicle of the Princess).

It tells how in the time of the Crusades, Elynas, the King of Albany (an old name for Scotland or Alba), went hunting one day and came across a beautiful lady in the forest. She was Pressyne, mother of Melusine.
He persuaded her to marry him but she agreed, only on the promise — for there is often a hard and fatal condition attached to any pairing of fay and mortal — that he must not enter her chamber when she birthed or
bathed her children. She gave birth to triplets. When he violated this taboo, Pressyne left the kingdom, together with her three daughters, and traveled to the lost Isle of Avalon.

The three girls — Melusine, Melior, and Palatyne — grew up in Avalon. On their fifteenth birthday, Melusine, the eldest, asked why they had been taken to Avalon. Upon hearing of their father’s broken promise, Melusine
sought revenge. She and her sisters captured Elynas and locked him, with his riches, in a mountain. Pressyne became enraged when she learned what the girls had done, and punished them for their disrespect to their father.
Melusine was condemned to take the form of a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. In other stories, she takes on the form of a mermaid.

Raymond of Poitou came across Melusine in a forest of Coulombiers in Poitou in France, and proposed marriage. Just as her mother had done, she laid a condition: that he must never enter her chamber on a Saturday.
He broke the promise and saw her in the form of a part-woman, part-serpent, but she forgave him. When, during a disagreement, he called her a “serpent” in front of his court, she assumed the form of a dragon, provided
him with two magic rings, and flew off, never to return.

Beyond the tale of Melusine and the mythological mystery of the mermaid, the other gods of the sea are amongst the most powerful in history, as water represents the power of creation which can both give, and destroy life.

For example, the Christian iconography of the fish symbol is associated with Jesus — and although it is believed to be in relation to his statement to “Peter and Andrew that if they followed him, He would make them
fishers of men” —  this mythology, too, dates back even before the Bible, and is actually relating to the Dagon god (or “fish god”) of the Philisitines.






From SeedofAbraham.com:


‘Dagon is the diminutive of dag, and signifies ‘little fish;’ not so much, however, in reference to size, as to the affection entertained for it; so that some would render it, ‘dear little fish.’ The Babylonians believed
that a being, part man and part fish, emerged from the Erythraean Sea, and appeared in Babylonia in the early days of its history, and taught the people various arts necessary for their well-being.
Representations of this fish-god have been found among the sculptures of Nineveh. The Philistine Dagon was of a similar character.’9

Whatever holiday you choose to celebrate, it is important to see beyond the symbols and the mainstream narrative which suits our cultural conditioning in order to find the root of what is (or was).
Holidays are their own mythology (see: The Psychedelic Origin of Christmas), and history can be like the game of telephone at times, as stories get altered to suit the needs of those in control of what is written.

What you choose to believe is personal to you, and a cup shouldn’t dictate or deter your celebration.
Whether the cup is red, purple, green, or decorated in Christmas design, the spirit of the holidays is within you, nobody else, and regardless, year round, the mermaid still will be on the Starbucks cup – luring people
to pay $5.00 for a cup of coffee with her siren songs.

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