Before the Little Mermaid, there was Queen Atalassa, ruler of a kingdom beneath the Atlantic called Maris Primordia. She commanded both song and storm — her voice could calm tempests or call them.
But her husband, a mortal sailor who had once rescued her, betrayed her for a human queen.
In grief, Atalassa tore her heart in two — half she threw into the sea, half she hid in her daughter’s chest.
That daughter was named Ariel.
When she sang, mortals felt love. When she cried, they drowned. The myth says every generation, Atalassa reincarnates through one of her daughters, searching for the heart she lost.
In 1892, a sunken cathedral was found off the coast of Denmark. Its walls bore carvings of mermaids — one with her chest open, a coral heart glowing inside. Divers claimed they heard faint singing through the water, even after surfacing.
The melody matched the ancient sea lullaby known as “Part of Your World.”
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